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In October there were 76 news posts.
Nothing really stands out as the big story of the month, so I guess the release of Red Hat Linux 7.2, SuSE Linux 7.3, and Yellow Dog Linux 2.1 win the gold, silver, and bronze, respectively. (Linux-Mandrake 8.1 would be included, but was announced on the 29th September.)
Big things ahead on the Linux desktop with the release of KDE 3.0alpha1 and Qt 3.0. And the FSF release Emacs 21, the start of a massive undertaking, to take Emacs from a programmable text editor to a programmable word processor.
On the games front, Mandrake released Mandrake Linux Gaming Edition, featuring The Sims, and Sony announced they are to release the Linux Playstation 2 in the US.
| News archive - October 2001 |
| Amazon saves millions with Linux switch |
| Here's some story. Amazon saving $17 million in technology expenses last quarter, largely by switching to Linux. Other companies are bound to sit-up and listen to this one. |
| October 31, 2001, 12:27 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Netscape 6.2 released |
| Netscape 6.2, based on Mozilla 0.94, has just been released. It's mainly a bug-fix affair, with some performance improvements and new features thrown in for good measure. |
| October 31, 2001, 12:18 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Judge dismisses Amazon employment suit |
| Seems it's War of the eWorlds: "A lawsuit filed by Amazon.com to prevent a former executive from taking a job with eBay was tossed out of federal court Monday because of jurisdictional issues." |
| October 30, 2001, 9:00 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Star Wars: Episode II - teaser trailer |
| "Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Studios today announced that Lucasfilm Ltd. has created an exclusive teaser trailer for Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones that will only appear at the head of the new animated Disney/Pixar film Monsters, Inc. The film premieres on November 2nd in theaters across the United States and Canada." |
| October 30, 2001, 5:12 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| GNOME desktop for Windows |
| Here's one way to get people to convert to Linux. Not the right way, but a way all the same. GNOME for Windows anyone? |
| October 30, 2001, 5:02 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Intel, AMD to nip prices again |
| "Intel will trim prices on select Pentium 4 and Pentium III chips by up to nearly 30 percent, while AMD cuts its 1800+ Athlon XP price by 15 percent." Good news for consumers then. Let's just hope 'rip-off Britain' gets to see some of these welcome discounts come their way. |
| October 29, 2001, 9:05 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Patent holder eyes Web services players |
| Cnet reports: "A patent held by a little-known programmer from New Jersey may complicate--at least temporarily--the grand visions of Web services touted by titans such as IBM, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems." Just what we need, another patent war. |
| October 29, 2001, 4:46 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| XP keeps consumers guessing |
| The great launching of Windows XP, was more like a urine dampened squid. This BBC article stabs a guess as to why. |
| October 29, 2001, 4:41 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Why your organization needs Linux |
| A nice, light-hearted article, on how to go about writing a speech on why your organisation needs Linux. |
| October 29, 2001, 12:59 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Gordon Moore gives $600 million to Caltech |
| "Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, is donating $600 million to the California Institute of Technology, the largest gift ever made to a single American school." |
| October 29, 2001, 12:36 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Interview: Keith Owens (kernel hacker) |
| "This weekend's interview is with Keith Owens, an experienced kernel hacker who has long contributed to the Linux kernel. His contributions include updating ksymoops and modutils, both of which he maintains. He also works on kbuild 2.5. Earlier, he built the original Integrated Kernel Debugging patch. He's also working on kdb and XFS." |
| October 28, 2001, 7:58 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| MSN lockout stirs antitrust rumblings |
| Seems this ongoing story, with MS continuing to fan the flames, is giving its best to overshadow the XP release. Windows users, do yourself and others a favour and at least look into Linux as a future alternative. |
| October 27, 2001, 7:47 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Microsoft to non-MS browsers: access not denied |
| What can I say? A simply brilliant article: "The irony of Microsoft's claim to standards support is complete when you check the MSN.com site for compliance with the XHTML standard. Anyone can go to the W3C's standards validation service at http://validator.w3.org/ and type in www.msn.com/. The returned document demonstrates clearly that not a single document on their site adheres to W3C specifications, and many of their documents do not use XHTML at all, e.g. http://careers.msn.com/." |
| October 26, 2001, 10:07 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| SuSE Linux 7.3 now shipping |
| SuSE announce their latest Linux distribution offering. |
| October 26, 2001, 6:33 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Does the Xbox need repairs already? |
| "There's an Xbox that's broken and it isn't in any living room in America yet. The Xbox demo unit at a nearby Toys R Us store could not give consumers a taste of the new Microsoft console because of severe loading problems." Oh my, I am shocked. A Microsoft console that crashes? Not possible! Lies, damn lies! "Out of five stores that have playable demos within a ten mile area, only two have working units." |
| October 25, 2001, 6:45 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Mandrake 8.1 review |
| Linux.com features a review of Linux Mandrake 8.1: "In conclusion, the latest Linux-Mandrake distribution has plenty of room for improvement. My testing showed some new installation features to be simply incomplete. But this release neverthless maintains Mandrake's position as the easiest -- and one of the most complete -- Linux distributions available." |
| October 25, 2001, 6:17 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Kernel changelogs to be censored? |
| The latest Linux Weekly News is out. Check out the first and without a doubt, main 'leading item'. Alan Cox succinctly and perfectly illustrates what a complete shambles the US DMCA truly is. Here was me naively believing the US was, 'the land of the free'. Seems their Government wants to outlaw free-speech, civil liberties, and a right to secure software. Not that the UK's any better. |
| October 25, 2001, 4:57 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Beam me up, Scotty! |
| I'm not worthy, I'm not worthy. I'm scum! Believe it or not, these pictures are real rooms in a real house. Once you've finished gazing at the sheer beauty of this little slice of heaven, select the Back link to read the article that goes with it. |
| October 24, 2001, 6:21 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Linux 2.4.13 released |
| The 2.4.13 kernel has just been released. The 'just released' Red Hat 7.2's 2.4.7 is speedily looking positively ancient. |
| October 24, 2001, 6:11 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Hacktivists take sides in war |
| BBC focus on Hacktivists, including some implications derived from events such as the 11th of September attacks. |
| October 24, 2001, 2:45 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Mars Odyssey made it! |
| The Mars Odyssey successfully entered orbit around Mars: "The last time Nasa tried to put a probe into orbit around the Red Planet it was a dismal failure but researchers are saying that the success, and promise, of Mars Odyssey will make up for past losses." |
| October 24, 2001, 2:39 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Gates to drop in on 'Frasier' |
| Bill Gates is to make an appearance as himself on the 200th episode of Frasier, during Frasier Crane's (fictitious) 2,000th radio broadcast. |
| October 24, 2001, 5:17 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Praise for 'inspirational' web pioneer |
| This is great. Shortly after mentioning the BBC article, 'Village in the clouds embraces computers' I noticed Slashdot had also made mention of the article. Then, lo-and-behold, the next day the BBC post a follow-up article on the overwhelming response it received. Personally I think the BBC should now make a little documentary on this story. |
| October 24, 2001, 5:03 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Sony to release Linux Playstation 2 in US |
| During a presentation Sony demonstrated Linux running on the PlayStation 2, running X-Windows. Show attendees were shown applications including a word processor, a spreadsheet package, and an MP3 player running on the system. Sony's senior VP and CTO said that although he couldn't provide a US release date yet, "we'll be able to announce it soon." |
| October 24, 2001, 2:59 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| The SIMS! |
| Mandrake Linux...OK, hows about, Mandrake Linux, gaming edition...No, OK, hows about, Mandrake Linux Gaming Edition, complete with a ported copy The Sims.... - Stop dribbling! |
| October 23, 2001, 5:22 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Moment of truth for Mars voyage |
| Following up on Laurence's post on the 20th, the Mars Odyssey spacecraft is now just hours away from being a success or failure.Keep an eye on BBC's Sci/Tech news for updates.cess or failure.Keep an eye on BBC's Sci/Tech news for updates. |
| October 23, 2001, 5:11 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Village in the clouds embraces computers |
| This really is what it's all about at the end of the day. Forget corporate mergers, big software releases, technology breakthroughs, and all that hype. One man bringing back bits of old computers in wooden boxes to his remote mountain village in Nepal and dreaming of one day having internet access for his village. |
| October 23, 2001, 2:50 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Red Hat Linux 7.2 released |
| Featuring the 2.4.7 kernel, an ext3 filesystem by default, Nautilus, Mozilla, improved USB support, and the latest versions of GNOME and KDE. I just know this is going to be totally sweeet. |
| October 23, 2001, 2:18 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| FSF announces Emacs 21 |
| "Emacs 21 is a big step forward in our long-term plan to take Emacs from a programmable text editor to a programmable word processor. Emacs 21.1 includes support for proportional fonts: characters in a line can be of variable width and lines can have variable heights. It also supports including images in text. Emacs 21.1 adds a number of new user-interface features: it has tool bars for executing frequently used commands, it supports native scroll bars, it displays tool tips, and it has a mouse-sensitive mode line. Even on text-only terminals, Emacs 21.1 supports colors and other display attributes." |
| October 23, 2001, 1:52 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Interview: Russell King (kernel hacker) |
| An interview with Russell King, the guy who originally ported Linux to ARM and continues to oversee its development. |
| October 22, 2001, 1:13 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| USA may fight Taliban with science-fact |
| The USA has spent a whopping $500 billion in the last 20 years on so-called 'black projects'. So what's the latest they have to show for it? That could be used to fight the Taliban? How about stealth choppers firing directed energy weapons, "which drive off approaching infantry with painful rays." Planes with reactive skin to blend in with the background. And a millimetre-wave ray, used to, "heat moisture in the outer skin enough to sting surrounding tissue like scalding water." |
| October 22, 2001, 1:01 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| I love Microsoft sooo much, I bought the t-shirt, and the hat, and the... |
| Please, I beg of you, answer me one simple question. My sanity depends on it. Who would be seen dead in this gear? Perhaps the site could next introduce a limited edition: 'I want Bill Gates' children!' bikini? Just a thought... |
| October 22, 2001, 12:38 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Matsushita preps 100GB DVD disc |
| Imagine if you will, an entire season of Star Trek or X-files on DVD! Not possible you say? Hmmm. Welcome to DVD: The Next Generation! |
| October 21, 2001, 12:24 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Building a large-scale e-commerce site with Apache and mod_perl |
| A superb article, giving a case study of how eToys.com survived the Christmas rush thanks to Apache, mod_perl, and MySQL. The awesome technology by the way that even Slashdot doesn't buckle under. Here you'll find everything you need to know to get the ball rolling. |
| October 21, 2001, 1:21 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Linux and rescue robots |
| Both myself and Peter have developed an increased interest in robots since we begun subscribing to the UK Real Robots magazine to build our very own iMac look-alike robot, 'Cybot'. We've always had an interest in them, it being a natural progression for computer geeks. So when an article comes along featuring the toppled twin towers, rescue robots, and Linux, I feel it likely worth mentioning. |
| October 21, 2001, 12:27 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Oakland airport to scan faces |
| "Oakland International Airport in California is taking a first step toward being able to scan crowds in an attempt to spot terrorists, with the installation of face-scanning technology." Let's just say if it lives up to the obvious hype, we're talking some pretty heavy duty technology. |
| October 20, 2001, 9:42 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Eric S. Raymond: If you can't stand the heat... |
| Oooo, sock it too them Eric! "Culp's rant is a transparently self-serving and dishonest attempt to shift the onus for epidemics like Code Red, Lion, and NIMDA away from where it belongs, which is squarely on Microsoft's shoddy architecture and negligent engineering." |
| October 20, 2001, 9:32 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Countdown to Red Planet arrival |
| It's taken 200 days, and travelled 285 million miles, but finally NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft is preparing to go into orbit around the Red Planet. NASA are understandably apprehensive about the next few days since the last time it attempted to send spacecraft to Mars, in 1999, both the Mars Climate Surveyor and the Mars Polar Lander failed. |
| October 20, 2001, 9:10 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Freeserve bares all |
| Have to say the only reason I'm mentioning this is because I too saw the 'cheeky' Freeserve ad the other day and it made me smirk. For those that haven't seen it yet, picture butts galore and many strategically placed slogans! |
| October 20, 2001, 9:00 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Bluetooth technology and Linux |
| Here's a detailed six-part article on just about everything you'd want to know about Bluetooth technology and Linux. Including how to upgrade your kernel to support it. |
| October 20, 2001, 8:44 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Hacker cracks Microsoft anti-piracy software |
| The title's not actually as bad as it sounds after reading this article, but it sure acts as a little thorn in Microsoft side, shredding away a little of their new technology's credibility. |
| October 20, 2001, 3:16 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Bringing computers to life |
| IBM has unveiled an ambitious initiative to develop technologies that share the basic biological abilities of living organisms. |
| October 19, 2001, 1:27 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Terra Soft unveils Yellow Dog Linux 2.1 |
| For all you PowerPC Linux users out there in the void, Terra Soft has just released Yellow Dog Linux 2.1. |
| October 19, 2001, 3:10 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Kevin Mitnick will portray a CIA computer expert on an upcoming episode of ABC's spy thriller 'Alias' |
| "...the irony is so thick you could cut it with a knife." Damn straight it is. Read this short article and then be aware old cut it with a knife." Damn straight it is. Read this short article and then be aware of what a weird weird world we live in. "Mitnick had to act with prop computers, since the terms of his supervised release prohibit him from possessing or using any kind of computer hardware." Madness, utter zany fun-lovin' maniacal madness. |
| October 19, 2001, 2:55 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| New CompuServe may ship without IE |
| Who said the browser wars were all but over? Anyone with their hand up was wrong. That includes you Mr. Microsoft PR man. The title may say 'may', but all know fine the mighty titan AOL, and the goliath Microsoft have never seen eye to beady eye. It may not be the next version, but trust me, it'll happen. |
| October 19, 2001, 1:39 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| The release candidate of Mandrake Linux 8.1 for Itanium is available |
| MandrakeSoft announces the availability of the Release Candidate of Mandrake Linux 8.1 for Intel Itanium Architecture. With the upcoming Mandrake Linux 8.1 for Itanium-based architecture, MandrakeSoft will provide businesses with a robust and scalable Linux solution for high performance computing. |
| October 18, 2001, 10:36 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Penguin reported to be on life support, management wiped out, staff decimated |
| Oh dear, it sounds like another big Linux company is going to be out of the hardware buthe hardware business. Penguin Computing are in big trouble, and they know it. "Except for the company's founder Sam Ockman, its chairman and CTO, the entire senior management team has reportedly either been fired or walked out." |
| October 18, 2001, 7:29 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Red Hat acquires VA Linux open source consulting team |
| Now here's what I'd call big news. Red Hat acquiring the entire VA Linux open source consulting team. Great news for Red Hat shareholders; dismal reading for VA's. |
| October 18, 2001, 5:12 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Let's stop wasting $78 billion a year |
| If ever you wanted an article to persuade your boss to deploy Linux, then this is that article. And now the obligatory quote: "Those folks involved in the open-source movement are very knowledgeable at what they do, and they're producing really great code." |
| October 17, 2001, 11:19 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Transmeta chip packs a compact punch |
| Transmeta new chip, the Crusoe 6000 takes up less space than current versions of its chip, making it ideal for use in a growing number of smaller, thinner and lighter notebooks and handheld PCs. Hopefully good news for Transmeta since this year they have seen a whopping slump of over 90% in share price. |
| October 16, 2001, 7:41 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Trolltech releases Qt 3.0 |
| Qt 3.0 from Trolltech, has just been released. There's literally tons of improvements to this third generation release. Good news for all Linux users. |
| October 16, 2001, 7:30 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| 98737 dead [Linux Counter] accounts will be deleted on November 1 |
| I have to say, this from Linux Counter is a wise move: "Over the 7 years that the Linux Counter has been operative, a lot of people have registered who can no longer be verified. We do not want to publish false data to the world. So we have to remove the data when it is too old." So what do you do to stay on the counter? Log-in! A log-in will keep you from being removed for another 2 years. |
| October 16, 2001, 7:19 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| RIAA wants to hack your PC |
| According to Wired, the recording industry in the US wants the right to hack into your computer, and delete what they believe to be stolen MP3s! Let's hope it works the other way round then. |
| October 15, 2001, 7:20 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Appeal for more 'IT' girls |
| Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt: "We want to see more IT girls..." I couldn't agree more! Government want to encourage more women to enter the IT industry. |
| October 15, 2001, 5:24 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| AMD launches three new Athlon chips |
| Using AMD's new model numbering; the MP 1500+, the MP 1600+ and the MP 1800+ where unleashed. |
| October 15, 2001, 5:18 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Interview: Robert Love (kernel hacker) |
| Robert Love who currently maintains the preemptible kernel patches, is interviewed by Kerneltrap, in their first of weekly interviews with kernel hackers. The article makes for good reading, albeit understandably technical in places. One response I like when asked what he thought of the 2.4 series: "I think we have come an amazing distance since 2.2. The work done during 2.3 and now in 2.4 is incredible. Some of the advancements that we did, especially some of the work by Linus and Ingo, are incredible. 2.4 can play in some very high-performance/high-scaling playgrounds now." |
| October 15, 2001, 6:42 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Building KDE and Qt 3 |
| For the brave, here's a article on how to build the new KDE 3.0alpha1 release, including the files you'll need and where to get them. Included is also a summary of what's new and the author's first impressions. |
| October 15, 2001, 1:40 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| New net domain 'fiasco' |
| Up to a quarter of the early registrations for the new .info domain nam .info domain name could be bogus. With quotes abound from this BBC News article with the likes of: "It is very clear that they [Afilias] did not do their job," and "Even the very basic anti-fraud steps, in common use, were not implemented," it's clear a monumental mess has been made. |
| October 14, 2001, 6:28 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Survey finds web server attacks doubled in 2001 |
| IT and computer security magazine Information Security this week released the findings of its 2001 Information Security Industry Survey. From the article: "Even 'security-aware' organizations are being attacked on all sides, both internally and externally." And this interesting, although hardly surprising, piece of advice: "One cure for those hit by both Code Red and Nimda may be migration to a Web server other than IIS." |
| October 14, 2001, 6:04 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| The ultimate Linux box 2001: How to design your dream machine |
| This article will tell you all you need to know about building the ultimate beast from Hades, and then some. Check it out. I darz ya! |
| October 14, 2001, 5:42 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Mozilla 0.9.5 released |
| The first builds of Mozilla 0.9.5 have just been released. To find out what's new, read the Release Notes in the above link. |
| October 14, 2001, 5:36 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Apache 1.3.22 released |
| Apache 1.3.22 has just been released. You'll find the changelog and links to download it at the link above. From the changelog: "This version of Apache is principally a security fix release which closes some problems where a directory listing could be obtained instead of the default index page." |
| October 13, 2001, 4:44 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| 2001 Readers' Choice Awards |
| The 2001 Linux Journal Readers Choice awards are out and it good to see the winners for the most part were the right ones to win. Nice to see the AMD Athlon won favourite processor architecture and MySQL won favourite database. No surprise tar won favourite backup utility and bash won favourite shell. But if ever again water wins over tea as favourite programming beverage I shall be forced to hunt down the culprits and kill them dead. Coffee I understand, but water?!?! 'The tea must flow!' |
| October 12, 2001, 8:35 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Ext3 information |
| Here's a great article explaining the benefits of ext3 over ext2 and consequently why Red Hat 7.2 will use it by default. No more waiting around for e2fsck to finish checking out your monster hard drive. Ahh, bliss. |
| October 12, 2001, 12:11 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Linux 2.4.12...um...released |
| Only yesterday I made mention of the 2.4.11 kernel release. Well that kernel was out for all of 32 hours 4 minutes due to a required bug-fix. Proof that even Linus is mortal. |
| October 11, 2001, 8:27 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Interview with Linus Torvalds |
| An interview with Linus being his usual vague, 'I just don't care', but likeable self. One interesting thing though, is the last three words in the quote: "I don't want to open a 2.5.x development tree until I'm happy with the pending issues for 2.4.x - it's taken longer than I hoped for, but it's getting there. Within the month." |
| October 10, 2001, 9:48 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Jedi makes the census list |
| During the UK census carried out earlier this year, a campaign was started to encourage people to enter their religion as 'Jedi Knight'. Well, it was a success, and Jedi Knight has been allocated its own code for processing! How long before we get our own religious holidays I wonder? |
| October 10, 2001, 7:38 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Linux 2.4.11 released |
| The latest stable Linux kernel, 2.4.11, has just been released. |
| October 10, 2001, 3:50 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| AMD Athlon XP Linux tested |
| All AMD fans will want to check this one out. As is to be expected, the new Athlon XP beats the Pentium 4 senseless. From the article: "Is the Athlon XP right for you? For almost all I would have to say a resounding yes. At the Pentium 4 competitive prices that the Athlon XP is showing up with, it's easy to choose the XP over the Pentium 4 for almost all tasks under Linux." |
| October 10, 2001, 12:11 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| MySQL database to get revamped |
| Many of the current 3 million MySQL user base will surely welcome the many new and important features in MySQL 4.0 being released in the middle of this month, including Unicode and SSL support. |
| October 8, 2001, 10:40 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Gnumeric 0.71 released |
| With graphs now supported, significant speed and size improvements, and a feature freeze preparing for an official stable release this is regarded as a major Gnumeric release. |
| October 8, 2001, 8:25 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| The third beta of Mandrake Linux 8.1 for Itanium is available |
| Mandrake move more and more into the enterprise arena with the release of the third beta for the Itanium. |
| October 8, 2001, 7:11 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| Intel to reveal chip-packing breakthrough |
| Intel have made a breakthrough in the way that processors communicate with the rest of the computer. It is said that this will allow for 20GHz processors to be possible within five years. |
| October 8, 2001, 6:34 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| KDE 3.0alpha1 released |
| Not long after the release of KDE 2.2.1, KDE 3.0 alpha 1, based on the new Qt 3 library, has just been released. With a planned beta release by Decemeber and a full release planned for February great things are soon to come. |
| October 7, 2001, 4:29 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| CD protesters take to the streets |
| This sucks big-time. Where do the music companies get off conning you into paying £15 of your own hard-earned cash for a CD that you can't play on your PC or console! Do they warn you with a big-sticker that you're being conned by their scheme of greed? No they do not. |
| October 7, 2001, 4:03 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
| A first look at StarOffice 6.0 beta |
| Joe Barr over at LinuxWorld takes a first look at StarOffice 6.0 beta. Here's what he has to say: "Sun is making progress, but it looks like two steps forward, one step back." |
| October 7, 2001, 3:07 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
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