>> Tech News BayStar pulling out $20m investment in SCO Group; PIPE deal falling apart? Friday April 16, 2004 (07:55 PM GMT) Topics: News and Trends By: Chris Preimesberger
A major investor in The SCO Group wants out of its financial relationship immediately. BayStar Capital, the Larkspur, Calif.-based investment firm which funded $20 million of a $50 million cash infusion to SCO Group only last October, has notified SCO Group by letter that it wants to cash out of the deal and redeem its 20,000 shares of Series A-1 Convertible Preferred Stock in the Unix sales and service firm http://trends.newsforge.com/trends/04/04/16/1956244.shtml?tid=137 >> Advisories Linux Advisory Watch - April 16, 2004 By: Benjamin D. Thomas Topics: Linux Advisory Watch This week, advisories were released for apache, the Linux kernel, mysql, xonix, ssmtp, openoffice, squid, cvs, Heimdal, iproute, pwlib, scorched, tcpdump, cadaver, and mailman. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Fedora, FreeBSD, Gentoo, Mandrake, Red Hat, and SuSE. http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/04/16/1446216 >> Geek Speak CARP your way to high availability Friday April 16, 2004 (12:00 PM GMT) Topics: Open Source , Software , Management and Administration , Networking and Connectivity By: Sunny Raspet You're putting out system management fires, with five SSH sessions open on your desktop. The mail server needs a restart after that kernel patch, so you su to root and type reboot. Just as the connection closes, your brain catches up with your fingertips. The mail server's still up -- the system you rebooted was the firewall at the site 200 miles away. The firewall on which 50 users rely. The firewall that refuses to reboot without a cold reset. What do you do? http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/04/13/1842214.shtml?tid=132&tid =82&tid=91&tid=92 >> Geek Speak Why Python is tightening its enterprise grip Thursday April 15, 2004 - [ 08:38 PM GMT ] Topics: Python , Programming By: Vance McCarthy Pages:< 1 | 2 > Editor's note:: Because Sun Microsystems and Microsoft are making news as newfound "partners" and both will be embracing scripting languages in Web services run by Java and .NET, the open source Python suddenly takes on added strategic significance. Our colleague at Open Enterprise Trends spoke with Alex Martelli, author of two O'Reilly Associates books on Python in the enterprise -- "Python in a Nutshell" and "Python Cookbook." http://www.itmanagersjournal.com/programming/04/04/15/2050245.shtml >> Tech News IBM pact with NISG for e-governance in India NT Bureau Chennai, Apr 17: The National Institute of Smart Government (NISG) and IBM India have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that marks the beginning of a relationship promoting e-governance at the national level. According to a press release, the MoU represents a significant initiative that will help India to develop different e-government applications using open standards and IBM's e-Governance Frameworks. http://newstodaynet.com/17apr/bu4.htm >> Tech News Langa Letter: Linux's Achilles' Heel April 18, 2004 New Linux distros still fail a task that Windows 95 -- yes, 95! -- easily handles, namely working with mainstream sound cards. That sends the cost of commercial, paid versions of Linux dramatically higher. By Fred Langa http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18901660 >> Geek Speak April 16, 2004 Multiple Linux Flaws Reported By Ryan Naraine Security researchers are warning of a buffer overflow security flaw in the Linux kernel that can be exploited to lead to privilege escalation attacks. http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3341341 >> Geek Speak Ten from IBM -- Linux dev, packet capturing, Wine, databases, Python, autonomic computing . . . â IBM has published the following technical articles, tutorials, and downloads on its developerWorks Website. They cover a range of interesting (though not necessarily embedded) technical topics. Some require free registration. Enjoy . . . http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS1998573973.html >> Tech News Novell's Linux Gamble is Paying Off Posted by Eugenia Loli-Queru on 2004-04-17 21:40:54 UTC Underscoring Novell's commitment to the Linux operating system, the company's chief financial officer on Friday hinted at further acquisitions. Joseph Tibbetts, pointing to Novell's purchase late last year of two leading Linux companies -- Boston's Ximian and Germany's SuSE -- said the networking giant is on its way to becoming the world's leading Linux solutions provider. Elsewhere, alternative to Windows should play to its own strengths, says Novell Linux guru. http://www.sltrib.com/2004/Apr/04172004/business/157901.asp http://www.whatpc.co.uk/News/1154443 >> Book Review Book explains Linux app development with GNOME 2 â No Starch Press and the GNOME Foundation have released "The Official GNOME 2 Developers Guide," the first English-language book about developing with GNOME 2. The book addresses GLib, GTK, and the GNOME API's. A portion of proceeds will be donated to the GNOME Foundation. ... http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8239018231.html -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
