FreeBSD installation and package tools, past, present and future

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September 14, 2000

Author: JT Smith

BSD Today discusses FreeBSD’s installation, configuration and package
management tools from the perspective of where they are and where they need to go.

DUPE – from yesterday Linux-Mandrake security update advisory

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September 14, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Linux Today offer this upgrade to the mod_php3 package.

MontaVista receives investment from Intel

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September 14, 2000

Author: JT Smith

All Linux Devices reports, the agreement will help ensure that MontaVista’s software will take advantage of the architectural benefits of the Intel XScale microarchitecture and the Intel StrongARM and IA-32 processor families. More on the investments from Business Wire.

Scrambled DeCSS Code and a Slurpee

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September 14, 2000

Author: JT Smith

It may be the oddest pairing on the Web: the descrambling source
code to DeCSS and a coupon for a free Slurpee at 7-Eleven, but
there is is, see for yourself at Yahoo Greetings. The original item was posted at Linux Today.

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Open Source

Re-UNIfied Unix: East meets West in Linux

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September 14, 2000

Author: JT Smith

This article from Linux Today concludes, while Unix is unfragmenting all around us, Linux isn’t fragmenting, no, rather, the wave is going the other direction.

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Linux

Mozilla strikes back

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September 14, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Article from Linuxpower states, “the ‘hopeless’ application of a few months back is now getting leaner and meaner by the day, and the Mozilla developers are starting to work on the polish.”

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Open Source

The Day Ahead: CFO search hover over Red Hat earnings

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September 14, 2000

Author: JT Smith

“When Red Hat reports its fiscal second quarter earnings Thursday analysts
will be looking for the subtle items that may indicate the Linux software and
services company is juggling too much,” says zdnet.co.uk.

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Linux

UK ‘free’ ISP CallNet unreachable, apparently bankrupt

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September 14, 2000

Author: JT Smith

“A former darling of the free Internet access model, CallNet, has had its phone
lines cut and is being sued by its former public relations agency, ZDNet can
reveal.”

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Open Source

Semiconductor prices continue to drop

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September 14, 2000

Author: JT Smith

“The international price for 64 megabyte synchronous dynamic random access memory (DRAM) has dropped to around $7 per chip, according to Korea Times.

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Unix

Barnes & Noble buys Fatbrain

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September 14, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Loooks like leading geek-book merchant Fatbrain is no longer a scrappy independent. More at NewsBytes.

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Open Source