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IBM Announces Multi-Million Dollar Investment In Linux Services

IBM announced a range of new Linux services and plans to invest more than $300 million in additional Linux services over the next three years. The company also unveiled a new Linux server, the IBM eServer x430, designed as the first 64-way server that will run the new Linux Application …

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KDE 2.1-beta2 Released: New Theme Manager, Image Viewer and IDE

The KDE Team has announced the release of KDE 2.1-beta2, a powerful and modular Linux desktop that offers new features such as a theme manager, image viewer, and IDE.

This is the last planned beta release before the scheduled release on February 19th, 2001. KDE 2.1 includes a …

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ViaVoice Integration with Qt: Simplifying Speech Input on Linux Desktop Applications

Trolltech, IBM, and KDE are teaming up at LinuxWorld to demonstrate IBM's ViaVoice speech-recognition technology running on Trolltech's Qt, a cross-platform C++ GUI framework in the K Desktop Environment. The technology preview will be running during the entire show at Trolltech's Booth, No. 1557 at LinuxWorld, which will be held …

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Hewlett Packard Joins Colorado Linux Info Quest as Top Level Sponsor

HP joins as a top level sponsor for Colorado Linux Info Quest (CLIQ), an annual event focused on Linux. The conference and exhibit will feature keynote speeches by Daryll Strauss and Havoc Pennington, as well as Birds of a Feather sessions and real-world demonstrations. CLIQ is a non-profit organization comprised …

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Future Technologies Joins KDE League and Plans to Enhance Standard KDE with FTKDE

Future Technologies has joined the KDE League and plans to enhance the standard KDE with its FTKDE. FTKDE will be available after the official release of KDE 2.1 and FTOSX after the release of Linux 2.4.1. FTKDE aims to be easier to use and more similar to …

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Progeny Linux Systems and Maximum Linux Magazine Host Raffle for Debian GNU/Linux at LinuxWorld

Progeny Linux Systems and Maximum Linux magazine are holding a raffle for Debian GNU/Linux at LinuxWorld in New York.

The raffle will cost $2 for each entry or $5 for three entries. The drawing will be held at 4 PM February 1 at the Maximum Linux booth (Booth #469 …

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SuSE Linux 7.1 with Kernel 2.4: A Step Towards Enterprise Computing

SuSE Linux has announced the release of SuSE Linux 7.1 with Kernel 2.4.

The new kernel brings improved multi-processor support, an addressable RAM of up to 64 GB, a 64-bit file system, enhanced USB support and simplified administration of hardware components. SuSE Linux Personal is designed for private …

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SourceForge.net reaches 100,000 registered users

Open Source Development Network (OSDN.com) has announced that SourceForge.net, the world's largest ASP for Open Source developers, now supports over 100,000 registered users. Since its official launch a year ago, SourceForge.net has expanded its base of supported projects to more than 13,000, including major projects …

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Virtutech and AMD Develop High-Performance x86-64 Simulator for Software Development

Virtutech and AMD have jointly developed and validated a high-performance x86-64 simulator, codenamed 'VirtuHammer', to aid software developers in testing and debugging their 64-bit software for AMD's next-generation processors. The simulator enables standard x86 processor-based computers running either the Microsoft Windows 2000 or Linux operating systems to operate as a …

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Gelecek Linux 1.0: A New Version of Red Hat for Turkish Users

Gelecek Linux 1.0 is a new version of the popular Red Hat distribution that aims to gain popularity among Turkish users. It comes with more than 750 packages and localized software, allowing users to choose their window managers during the login process.

The new LPRng suite is added for …

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SuSE Linux releases second generation e-mail solutions

SuSE Linux has announced the release of the second generation of its e-mail solutions for commerce, public administration, workgroups and all others needing professional e-mail communication.

The SuSE eMail Server II is an Open Source solution based on reliable components consistent with Internet standards such as SMTP, IMAP4, POP3, and …

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Call for Participation: O'Reilly Open Source Convention and Perl Conference 5

O'Reilly & Associates is looking for speakers to lead tutorials, presentations and refereed papers at the 2001 O'Reilly Open Source Convention and Perl Conference 5. The topics of interest include XML, MySQL, Apache, PHP, Python, Mozilla, Linux, Tcl, Zope, Perl 6, Perl 5 Internals, Threads, The Web, I18N/L10N, XML SOAP …

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SuSE Linux AG Launches Campaign to Distribute Linux Operating System to Schools in Spain

SuSE Linux AG is launching a unique campaign to distribute the Linux operating system to schools in Spain. The company has mobilized 1,000 Linux packages worth EUR 66,- each and made them available to Spanish schools for free. SuSE Linux is a flexible Unix operating system that offers stability …

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BlackAdder: A Comprehensive GUI Development Environment for Python on Linux and Windows

theKompany.com, producers and distributors of high-quality open source and commercial Linux software, has announced the release of its Windows/Linux GUI development environment for Python, BlackAdder. BlackAdder combines a visual design environment with debugging, syntax highlighting, ODBC interfaces and extensive HTML documentation into a comprehensive platform for developing Python …

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Teamware Office 5.3 for Linux: A New Intranet Solution for Small and Medium-Sized Companies

Teamware Group has announced the availability of Edition 3 of its popular ready-to-run groupware product, Teamware Office 5.3 for Linux, with customizable user interface and state-of-the-art communications features. The new Edition introduces some major improvements that make the groupware even more suitable for small and medium-sized companies. According to …

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.NET 5.0 Released with New Features and Improvements

Microsoft has announced the release of .NET 5.0, which includes new features and improvements for .NET development. The new version includes support for .NET Core 3.1, as well as new features such as improved performance and better support for Windows Forms and WPF applications. Additionally, .NET 5.0 …

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CSA Coventive MSC Showcases Embedded Technology in Information Appliances at Linuxworld Malaysia 2000

CSA Coventive MSC SDN BHD, a joint venture between CSA (Malaysia) BHD and Xchannel Ltd, a subsidiary of Coventive Technologies Inc, officially announced its incorporation at Linux World Malaysia 2000 event. The company is making its advent into the embedded technology within the information appliances market. CSA Coventive MSC's charter …

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Sun Microsystems Distributes Eazel's Nautilus Software on GNOME 2.0 Desktop Environment

Eazel Inc., a developer of software and services to make computers easier to use, announced that Sun Microsystems will distribute Eazel's Nautilus software on the upcoming GNOME 2.0 desktop user environment for the Solaris operating environment. The combination of GNOME and Nautilus will provide Linux and Solaris users with …

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LEAD Technologies releases LEADTOOLS Imaging for Linux

LEAD Technologies has released LEADTOOLS Imaging for Linux, an imaging developer toolkit for the Linux operating system. The toolkit is built directly upon Xlib and offers developers more flexibility, greater speed and ease in development, and independence of graphical interface.

It includes functionality for performing image processing, document clean-up, file …

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EuroZopeCon Amsterdam: A Conference for Open Source Content Management Platforms

The European Zope users conference will take place during Linux Expo Amsterdam on the 23 and 24 January 2001. The Open Source software Zope is a Web application server and content management system developed by Digital Creations and by a worldwide community of developers. EuroZopeCon Amsterdam, like previous EuroZope meetings …

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