Linux.Conf.au Jan 18 -21, 2001

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August 28, 2000

Author: JT Smith

The conference is a collaborative effort by Linux Australia, the
Sydney Linux Users Group and affiliated organisations. It is
supported by the School of Computer Science and Engineering,
University of New South Wales, and is a successor to the
Conference for Australian Linux Users (CALU) held in Melbourne in
July, 1999. More at linux.conf.au.

MS snows on AT&T’s parade

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August 28, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Cute title, but the story’s substance is about Microsoft’s failure to provide software for AT&T’s planned 10 million “interactive TV” settop boxes by the promised date, and how AT&T may need to look at other software vendors. Read about it at ZDNet.

RSA upgrading its Keon PKI security software

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August 28, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Keon 5.5 will soon be available from RSA Security for both Windows and Unix, according to a story at nwfusion.com.

Linux-Reporter.DE Goes Online

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August 28, 2000

Author: JT Smith

New German publication covers Linux happenings and news. LinuxPR has the story.

What it means to be free

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August 28, 2000

Author: JT Smith

eWeek columnist Stan Gibson ruminates about whether GPL software will ever take off, and wonders if there will ever be enough Linux users willing to pay for software to be worth developing commercial programs for Linux.

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Tim O’Reilly: The Web Is A Giant Supercomputer

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August 28, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Inter@ctiveWeek interview with Tim O’Reilly in which he talks of peer-to-peer sharing, seti@home, how Palm fits in, and fraud in online commerce. Not deep, but worth reading.

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Breaking GNU ground

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August 28, 2000

Author: JT Smith

ZDNet eWeek editorial about how the GPL is gaining “traction” among non-Linux companies, and why this is good news.

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Has Linux lapped Apple as competition for Redmond?

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August 28, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Many of our favorite Slashdot buxzzwords in one discussion: Apple, Linux, ESR, Microsoft, Open Source, and Gnome. (Hundreds of reader comments – may load slowly for dialup users.)

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Book Review: O’Reilly’s “Running Linux”

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August 28, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Signalground has posted a review of the classic tome, O’Reilly’s “Running Linux”.
–Tom Moran

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Journalism on the Web has no future

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August 28, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Interesting think piece from ZDNet’s Inter@ctive Week Online about how online journalism (including Inter@ctive Week Online?) can’t possibly survive and make money.

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