Software coders work to trade music without using Napster

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October 3, 2000

Author: JT Smith

NewsFactor Newtwork News reports, an ardent group of software coders working together
over the Internet is creating a standard program that will enable Web
surfers to continue to trade music without going through Napster’s central
computers.

Alta Terra’s MaxOS Linux marches into Canadian retail

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October 3, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Canada News Wire: Today, Alta Terra Ventures Corp. announced that MaxOS Linux, its Linux-based computer operating system,
is available in retail stores.

Linus Torvalds: Linux-2.4.0-test9

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October 3, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Linux Today offers this reprint from the Kernel Mailing List containing updates to USB (ohci controller and device numbering), Sparc, and SCSI module.

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Linux and Windows NT 4.0: Basic Administration – Part II

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October 3, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Administrative tasks in Windows NT are strikingly similar to the
same tasks in Linux, this comes as little surprise, as one of
Microsoft’s first ventures had been Xenix, a Unix clone, surmises Linux.com.

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Linux

Raymond to pen ‘Zen and the Art of Unix’

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October 3, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Upside Today reports, open source author Eric Raymond discussed his future writing plans, including an upcoming
book on the “Zen and the Art of Unix,” at the Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco
Monday.

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Open Source

Feds to recognize Linux achievement

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October 3, 2000

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

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October 3, 2000

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

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October 3, 2000

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

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October 3, 2000

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?

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October 3, 2000

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