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Bumpy road(map) to Mozilla browser

Author: JT Smith

ZDNet has a followup story on Mozilla.org’s release of its roadmap document this week. “Slow and steady” progress is being made on the browser.

Universities refuse to ban Napster

Author: JT Smith

IDG.net reports that several U.S. universities will not restrict their students’ access to Napster, despite a
request from the attorney representing anti-Napster Inc. artists Dr.
Dre and Metallica.

Inprise/Borland offers free seminars

Author: JT Smith

Inprise/Borland this week began a series of free, one-day product seminars for software professionals interested in using Borland
products to speed the time to market of new internet application development projects, from PRNewswire.

Alliance formed for Asian embedded Linux market

Author: JT Smith

All Linux Devices is reporting, Opera Software, PalmPalm Technology Inc., and Trolltech today announced the formation of a strategic alliance for the Asian wireless Linux market.

Lineo bolsters development of uClinux 2.4

Author: JT Smith

PRNewswire reports, Lineo’s uClinux
is a micro version of Linux that can be used in devices that use processors
without a memory management unit (MMU).

Open Standards key to growth of Storage Area Networks

Author: JT Smith

Internet Wire: The need for open standards is critical to the widespread adoption of Storage Area Networks (SANs), according to an independent survey of information technology professionals conducted by International Data Group (IDG).

Category:

  • Linux

Proprietary Unices are morphing into a future super-Linux

Author: JT Smith

Linux Today article surmises, “the high-end OS of the future will be a version of Linux that has incorporated all the best code from
SGI’s Irix, IBM’s AIX, Caldera’s (formerly SCO’s) UnixWare, and
probably somewhere down the road from Sun’s Solaris.”

Category:

  • Linux

Crackers infiltrate Linux

Author: JT Smith

Hundreds of mainly Red Hat Linux servers have been hacked in the past few weeks, according to the US Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), from ZDNet News UK.

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  • Linux

Will privacy kill the CueCat?

Author: JT Smith

Concerns about its data collection practices threaten Digital:Convergence’s plans to roll out 50 million of the bar-code scanners by 2002, reports ZDNet News.

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  • Linux

Bluetooth debuts in bits and pieces

Author: JT Smith

IDG News Service on PC World News reports, real products using the short-range wireless technology are finally coming to market.