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Feds to recognize Linux achievement

Author: JT Smith

The U.S. government is recognizing the best and brightest of its Linux community, reports LinuxNews, and focusing on the operating system’s future with a conference and awards presentation October 30.

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  • Linux

VA Linux releases VACM 2.0 cluster management software

Author: JT Smith

VA Linux Systems, Inc., the world’s Linux leader, today announced the availability of VACM 2.0, the latest official release of VA Cluster Manager software, from Business Wire. (Full disclosure: NewsForge is owned by VA Linux.)

The Internet’s .1 and only domain? – duplicate

Author: JT Smith

ZDNet News looks at a few applications to administer new TLDs filed Monday with the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

Knowledge exchange for Linux developers

Author: JT Smith

PRNewswire reports, together, HotDispatch and
Caldera will build an online marketplace for Linux developers to purchase and
sell technical expertise.

Is the SDMI boycott backfiring?

Author: JT Smith

Programmers don’t want to help the recording industry test its
new security “solution,” reports Salon News,
but the technology insiders behind the
system say hackers could kill it once and for all by
participating.

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  • Linux

Why did MS really save Corel?

Author: JT Smith

ZDNet News article proclaims, “There are other reasons Microsoft bought into Corel, in my humble opinion, and none of them has anything
to do with Microsoft gaining the endorsement of a major software vendor for its .Net development platform, as stated in the joint Microsoft-Corel press release.”

Linux virus scanners: Common problems

Author: JT Smith

According to this article from SecurityPortal, even if you do everything perfectly, you can still run into problems.

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  • Linux

The MontaVista monopoly of minds

Author: JT Smith

MontaVista is at the forefront of ppc embedded system software design, announces Linuxppc.org.

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  • Linux

Flash memory leads chip sales boom

Author: JT Smith

Reuters: Worldwide sales of
semiconductors grew 53 percent to hit record levels
during the month of August, driven by strong
Asia-Pacific region growth and booming demand for
Internet and communications devices.

Category:

  • Unix

Computer that ate Hitler’s brain

Author: JT Smith

Colossus II was the first programmable computer, the one that enabled the Allies to “read the mind of Adolf Hitler.” From a report at Wired.com.

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  • Linux