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| Xandros readies Corel Linux distribution |
| Xandros, the company that paid Corel $2 million to license Corel Linux, related apps, and to take on the original development team; as well as licensing their core technology to LindowsOS, is to make a comeback in April. "The company said it would also make an announcement later in the week related to the beta release of Xandros Desktop 1.0, its debut desktop operating system product."
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| January 28, 2002, 2:50 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
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| Return to Castle Wolfenstein for Linux |
| Finaly the new version of Wolfenstein has been released for Linux. If like me you remember playing it to death as a child on a 386, you can now relive your youth. |
| January 27, 2002, 5:21 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
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| Mandrake 8.2 beta 1 released |
| New pre-release version of Mandrake out: "Code red alert for all Mandrake Linux users: After several weeks of sleepless nights spent at taming the cooker snapshot, Mandrakesoft developers team had to take a short nap. The half-finished distribution immediately spotted its chance, escaped from captivity, and nested itself on a public FTP server under a name 'Mandrake Linux 8.2 (beta1)'."
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| January 27, 2002, 1:11 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
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| That Linux AMD bug in technicolor detail |
| The Register covers the Linux AMD bug in technicolour detail, thanks to the help of its readers. |
| January 26, 2002, 12:08 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
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| Review: LindowsOS sneak preview - it's not vaporware after all |
| NewsForge has a review of LindowsOS sneak preview, including three screenshots. |
| January 26, 2002, 3:36 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
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| IBM debuts first-of-its-kind Linux-only mainframe |
| "IBM today announced plans to deliver two new dedicated Linux servers, including a first-of-its-kind Linux-only mainframe that requires no traditional mainframe operating system experience." |
| January 25, 2002, 6:50 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
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| Borland C++ for Linux |
| Borland will further its open-source strategy next Tuesday when it details plans for C++ on Linux at the LinuxWorld Conference in New York."We are taking our C++ development solution to the Linux platform. We have seen a lot of Linux developers who used to be Unix developers..."
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| January 25, 2002, 5:56 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
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| Pentium 4 'Northwood' vs. Athlon XP 2000+ under Linux |
| Linuxhardware.org check out the latest offerings from both Intel and AMD. |
| January 25, 2002, 5:14 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
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| Loki's demise confirmed. |
| Despite some wonderful ports, of some of the greatest games, Loki is now out of the picture. This letter though, raises some interesting points, with a few comments we can all take on board. |
| January 25, 2002, 5:09 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
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| Get your default KDE and GNOME desktops in line |
| "An article targeting system administrators in need of configuring default KDE and GNOME desktops for new users." |
| January 24, 2002, 8:40 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
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| Get your default KDE and GNOME menus in line |
| "An article targeting system administrators in need of configuring default KDE and GNOME menus for new users." |
| January 24, 2002, 8:39 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
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| AMD's official position: this is not a CPU bug |
| Regarding the recently reported problem with Athlon/Duron/Athlon MP AGP Linux users, it turns out it's not a CPU bug: "The GART and the CPU see two different views of memory, and it's the kernel's responsibility to map memory in such a way as to prevent bad interactions. Currently, that isn't happening. Third-party drivers such as the NVIDIA driver for Linux may also have some problems in this area. Now that the Linux kernel development community is aware of the issue, they have started the process of devising a good approach to avoid this memory corruption problem."
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| January 24, 2002, 7:23 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
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| Does publicly funded research have to result in open source code? |
| Lisa from O'Reilly writes, "Does Publicly Funded Research Have to Result in Open Source Code? Two opposing viewpoints on whether all software created by publicly funded research should be licensed as open source." My opinion, raving Linux zealot aside, is yes, yes it does. Anything other is unacademic. Besides, it's publicly-funded, hence the end product should be available to the public. |
| January 24, 2002, 2:14 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
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| KDE 3.0 release plan |
| Personally I believe KDE 3.0 to be the biggest thing for Linux in 2002 (and to a lesser extent, GNOME 2.0, with a handful of big name desktop apps in third place). All making the online press, and more importantly, the non-Linux (non-niche--and dare I say--non-geek) press sing that bit louder about the virtues of Linux on the desktop. Attracting more to the light, as it were. The KDE 3.0 release plan has RC 1 tarballs ready for testing on January 28th, an RC 1 public release billed for February 4th, 3.0 final tarballs for testing on March 8th, and 3.0 final to be released to the public on March 18th. |
| January 24, 2002, 1:39 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
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| Redmond Linux now called Lycoris |
| The link will lead you to Redmond Linux's, um I mean Lycoris' new site, Lycoris.com: "Redmond Linux Corp. now called Lycoris, Redmond Linux Personal now called Desktop/LX."
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| January 23, 2002, 7:28 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
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| Sources: AOL not bidding for Red Hat |
| I think most agree it was fun while it lasted: "AOL Time Warner apparently is not making a bid to buy Linux manufacturer Red Hat, said sources familiar with the matter."
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| January 22, 2002, 2:14 a.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
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| CRUX 0.9.2 released |
| CRUX 0.9.2, the lightweight, i686-optimized Linux distribution, has just been released. Rest-assured I'll be reviewing this soon. Excellent news is that the ISO no longer features the source, bringing it down from a 413Mb download (for 0.9.1) to just 196Mb. Can't wait to play with the latest version of this superb distro. |
| January 21, 2002, 8:02 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
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| 17 million paperweights? |
| After a month of use, the 17 million copies of XP could become so much paperweights: "The surprise is the way it's implemented in Windows XP: You see, unlike the WPA [Windows Product Activation] in the Office XP/2002 products, one misstep with the version of WPA inside Windows XP (the operating system) may leave you unable to boot your PC; unable to access or back up your files; and in fact, unable to do *anything useful at all* with your PC. Your shiny new XP system will be nothing but a giant paperweight! "
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| January 21, 2002, 7:35 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
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| A hard look at Linux's claimed strengths |
| James at LinuxGuru.net writes, "This article is a long depth (36 pages in lynx) article giving an indepth apprisal of the key strengths of Linux." All in all, CIO's would be wise to read this well-investigated article. |
| January 21, 2002, 7:21 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
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| Alan Cox to leave if RH AOL buyout happens? |
| From Slashdot, the latest on the AOL acquiring Red Hat, has Alan Cox posting this to the Linux kernel mailing list: "Well I've no idea on the rumours (and if I did I wouldnt tell you!) but Im insulted that anyone believes I would continue working for RH if aol/time warner owned them." Good for you Alan, I'm ''guessing'' RH would be a bit miffed about losing their star employee. |
| January 21, 2002, 6:58 p.m. GMT (Posted by ) |
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