MacWEEK’s week in review sumamrizes some of the events that happened recently in the industry, including the LinuxWorld Expo, Michael Cowpland resigning from Corel, and an addition to Apple’s board of directors.

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Linux

Mainsoft possibly porting applications

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August 20, 2000

Author: JT Smith

An anonymous reader submitted this PlanetIT story which discusses the announcement of Mainsoft to possibly port popular Microsoft applications to Linux.

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Linux

Spreadsheets under BSD

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August 20, 2000

Author: JT Smith

BSDToday has a pair of articles covering spreadsheets. The first spreadsheet software reviews covers Applix Spreadsheet, Xspread, and sc.
The second continue with Gnumeric, Abacus, and Oleo.

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Unix

Napster war could erode buyer base

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August 20, 2000

Author: JT Smith

This article, from Florida Today, questions what effect the shutdown of Napster will have on the sales of CDs. It cites a Rolling Stone survey that said 36% of people bought more music, compared to 8% who bought less, because of online music.

Station’s backbone starts to shape up

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August 20, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Florida Today has an article on the International Space Station and the parts that will be installed over the next few years.

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Linux

FreeBSDzine Issue #7 out

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August 20, 2000

Author: JT Smith

The latest issue of FreeBSDzine is out. It has articles on dual booting FreeBSD 4.0 with Windows 98, Mexican FreeBSD advocacy and VLan interface configuration

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Linux

Wireless technology helps old schools

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August 19, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Canada.com reports on wireless networking helping old schools which don’t have the infrastructure to support a standard ethernet network get online, and give students access to internet resources.