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<li><a href="#leg">Legislation and More Legislation</a>
</li><li><a href="#links">Linux Links</a>
</li><li><a href="#conferences">Conferences and Events</a>
</li><li><a href="#general">News in General</a>
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March 2003 <i>Linux Journal</i>
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The March issue of <a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/"><i>Linux
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This issue focuses on On-Line Fora.  Click 
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<center><H3><font color="green">Legislation and More Legislation</font></H3></center>


<P>
Fox News report on
<a href="http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,78729,00.html">
the US Congress's tech agenda</a>.
<P>
<a href="http://www.itworld.com/Net/4087/030131euantipiracy/">
ITworld.com reported</a>
that the European Commission has
presented a draft directive that punishes copyright infringement for
commercial purposes, but spares home music downloaders, irritating music
industry lobby groups
(<a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/02/0229224&mode=nested&tid=141&tid=158">from Slashdot</a>).
Also reported 
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/29184.html">
at The Register</a>.
<P>
Washington Post 
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6320-2003Jan31.html">
reports</a>
that Howard Schmidt, the new cybersecurity czar, is a former Microsoft
security chief.
(<a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/02/1358206&mode=nested&tid=172">from
Slashdot</a>).
<P>
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/29157.html">
The Register reports</a>
how US gov reps "defanged" pro open source declaration.
<P>
<a href="http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/german_comments.php">
EFF's comments</a> on the "German DMCA" 
as part of its ongoing effort to avoid the worldwide export of over broad
DMCA-type legislation.  The German judicial commission is currently holding
hearings on draft German legislation to implement the 2001 European Union
Copyright Directive (EUCD).
<P>
After winning the initial judgement 
<a href="http://mobilix.org/mobilix_asterix.html">
in a trademark suit</a>, the
German software firm MobiliX had to 
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/29244.html">
give up its name after all</a>
to the publishers of a similarly-named comic book character.
MobilX.org is now
<a href="http://tuxmobil.org/">
TuxMobil.org</a>.
(<A HREF="http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/21/1457244">NewsForge 
announcement.</A>)
<P>
The EFF has announced the release of 
"<a href="http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/finkelstein_on_dmca2.php">Winning (DMCA) Exemptions, The Next Round</a>",
a succinct guide to the comment-making process written by Seth Finkelstein,
who proposed one of the only two exemptions granted in the last Library of
Congress Rule-making.
<P>
The Register reports that the 
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/29318.html">
DMCA has been invoked in DirecTV hack</a>.  17 have been charged.
<P>
<a href="http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/1544245&mode=nested&tid=117&tid=123">
Slashdot Interview with Prof. Eben Moglen
</a>
who has been the FSF's pro bono general counsel since 1993.
<P> 


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<center><H3><font color="green">Linux Links</font></H3></center>

<P>
The Happypenguin Awards for the
<a href="http://happypenguin.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=549">
25 Best Linux Games</a> 
(<a href="http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/2050245">courtesy NewsVac</a>).
<P>
Lindows launches 
<a href="http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/1575991">
$329 mini PC</a>, ubiquity beckons.
<P>
ZDNet UK
<a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2129482,00.html">
reports</a>
on how KDE's new version has responded to government needs.
<P>
NewsForge report:
<a href="http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/1420212">
The rise of the $99 'consumer' Linux distribution</a>
<P>
A look at installing Bayesian filtering using
<a href="http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/synd/2003/01/30/bogofilter.html">
Bogofilter and Sylpheed Claws</a>.
<P>
Doc Searls at <em>Linux Journal</em> writes on the value shifts
<a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com//article.php?sid=6601">
underpinning the spread of Linux and free software</a>.
<P>
<a href="http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/06/172206">
PC-To-Phone calls available for GNU/Linux</a>.
<P>
Wired reports on
<a href="http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,57565,00.html">
getting an iPod to run on linux</a>.
<P>
Jay Beale (of Bastille Linux) 
with an 
<a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/2003/feb/linuxguru.shtml">
article on computer security</a>, and how to tell if you've been hacked
(<a href="http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/2315254">from NewsVac</a>).
<P>
Monthly Monster Machines back in action
LinuxLookup.com have 
<a href="http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/2310225">
announced</a>
a monthly feature
<a href="http://www.linuxlookup.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=MMM&file=index">
Monthly Monster Machines</a>.  This is a monthly updated spec of budget,
workstation, and dream Linux machines.
<P>
<a href="http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/15/1453242">
It has been reported that</a>
starting this year, the Swiss State of Geneva will mail all tax forms with a CD
which includes OpenOffice and Mozilla.  This replaces an Excel sheet.
<P>
Recent NewsForge 
<a href="http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/18/1540254">
IRC chat</a>
with OpenOffice.org publicist/activist Sam Hiser.
<P>
Open Source 
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/29416.html">
security manual</a>.
There is a report on this 
<a href="http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/02/20/1635246.shtml?tid=2">
at NewsForge</a>.
<P>
Possible data write 
<a href="http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/03/02/21/0540225.shtml?tid=23">
corruption problem</a>
on Linux.
<P>
NewsForge
<a href="http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/21/1534259">
report</a> on the launch of the new
<a href="http://www.linuxineducation.org">
Linux in Education</a>
portal.
<P>
Slashdot
<a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/21/182216&mode=nested&tid=163">
highlighted</a> a recent Business Week feature of Linux comprising 
<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/toc/03_09/B382203linux.htm">
9 articles</a>.
<P>
<a href="http://slashdot.org/articles/03/02/04/0033239.shtml?tid=109&tid=126&tid=164">
Slashdotters respond</a>
to an article about the Microsoft Home of Tomorrow by
speculating what an AppleHouse, SunHouse and LinuxHouse would look like.
<P>
<a href="http://geocities.com/lunatech3007/doing-things-howto.html">
Howto do things in GNU/Linux</a>
<P>
<a href="http://unix.se/article/articleview/950/1/24">
Interview with Dennis Ritchie</a>, a founding father of Unix and C.
<P>
Some Links from 
<a href="http://www.lwn.net/">Linux Weekly News</a>:
<ul>
<li>
    South Africa moves positively with regard to 
    <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-983315.html">
    Linux in government</a>.
</li>
<li>
    SCO
    <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/20973/">
    hires lawyers</a>
    to comb through Linux to see if it infringes on any of SCO's patents or
    copyrights; SCO owns the rights on the original UNIX.  SCO is being
    tight-lipped about what it would do if it finds anything.  Also
    reported 
    <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/20717.html">
    at OS Opinion</a>.
</li>
<li>
    Multi-part interview with Guido van Rossum, parts
    <a href="http://www.artima.com/intv/python.html">
    1</a>,
    <a href="http://www.artima.com/intv/pyscale.html">
    2</a>,
    <a href="http://www.artima.com/intv/speed.html">
    3</a>,
    <a href="http://www.artima.com/intv/pycontract.html">
    4</a>,
    <a href="http://www.artima.com/intv/strongweak.html">
    5</a> and
    <a href="http://www.artima.com/intv/pycomm.html">
    6</a>.
</li>
</ul>
<P>
For the Chinese readers among you, a
<a href="http://eulerkhc.130th.net/chinese.html">
Chinese translation</a>
of the Peruvian 
<a href="http://eulerkhc.130th.net/index.html">
refutation</a>
of Microsoft FUD.

<P>


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<center><H3><font color="green">Upcoming conferences and events</font></H3></center>

<P> Listings courtesy <EM>Linux Journal</EM>.  See <EM>LBJ</EM>'s
<A HREF="http://www.linuxjournal.com/events.php">Events</A> page for the
latest goings-on.

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        <b>Game Developers Conference</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>March 4-8, 2003<BR>San Jose, CA<BR>
        <a href="http://www.gdconf.com/" target="_blank">
        http://www.gdconf.com/</A><BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>SXSW</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>March 7-11, 2003<BR>Austin, TX<BR>
        <a href="http://www.sxsw.com/interactive" target="_blank">
        http://www.sxsw.com/interactive</A><BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>CeBIT</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>March 12-19, 2003<BR>Hannover, Germany<BR>
        <a href="http://www.cebit.de/" target="_blank">
        http://www.cebit.de/</A><BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>City Open Source Community Workshop</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>March 22, 2003<BR>Thessaloniki, Greece<BR>
        <a href="http://www.city.academic.gr/cosc" target="_blank">
        http://www.city.academic.gr/cosc</A><BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>Software Development Conference & Expo</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>March 24-28, 2003<BR>Santa Clara, CA<BR>
        <a href="http://www.sdexpo.com/" target="_blank">
        http://www.sdexpo.com/</A><BR>

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        <b>Linux Clusters Institute (LCI) Workshop</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>March 24-28, 2003<BR>Urbana-Champaign, IL<BR>
        <a href="http://www.linuxclustersinstitute.org/" target="_blank">
        http://www.linuxclustersinstitute.org/</A><BR>

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        <b>4th USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>March 26-28, 2003<BR>Seattle, WA<BR>
        <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/" target="_blank">
        http://www.usenix.org/events/</A><BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>PyCon DC 2003</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>March 26-28, 2003<BR>Washington, DC<BR>
        <a href="http://www.python.org/pycon/" target="_blank">
        http://www.python.org/pycon/</A><BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>Linux on Wall Street Show & Conference</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>April 7, 2003<BR>New York, NY<BR>
        <a href="http://www.linuxonwallstreet.com" target="_blank">
        http://www.linuxonwallstreet.com</A><BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>AIIM</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>April 7-9, 2003<BR>New York, NY<BR>
        <a href="http://www.advanstar.com/" target="_blank">
        http://www.advanstar.com/</A><BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>FOSE</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>April 8-10, 2003<BR>Washington, DC<BR>
        <a href="http://www.fose.com/" target="_blank">
        http://www.fose.com/</A><BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>MySQL Users Conference & Expo 2003</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>April 8-10, 2003<BR>San Jose, CA<BR>
        <a href="http://www.mysql.com/events/uc2003/" target="_blank">
        http://www.mysql.com/events/uc2003/</A><BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>LinuxFest Northwest 2003</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>April 26, 2003<BR>Bellingham, WA<BR>
        <a href="http://www.linuxnorthwest.org/" target="_blank">
        http://www.linuxnorthwest.org/</A><BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>Real World Linux Conference and Expo</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>April 28-30, 2003<BR>Toronto, Ontario<BR>
        <a href="http://www.realworldlinux.com/" target="_blank">
        http://www.realworldlinux.com</A><BR>


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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>USENIX First International Conference on Mobile Systems, 
	Applications, and Services (MobiSys)</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>May 5-8, 2003<BR>San Francisco, CA<BR>
        <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/" target="_blank">
        http://www.usenix.org/events/</A><BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>USENIX Annual Technical Conference</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>June 9-14, 2003<BR>San Antonio, TX<BR>
        <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/" target="_blank">
        http://www.usenix.org/events/</A><BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>CeBIT America</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>June 18-20, 2003<BR>New York, NY<BR>
        <a href="http://www.cebit-america.com/" target="_blank">
        http://www.cebit-america.com/</A><BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>ClusterWorld Conference and Expo</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>June 24-26, 2003<BR>San Jose, CA<BR>
        <a href="http://www.linuxclustersinstitute.org/Linux-HPC-Revolution" 
	target="_blank">
        http://www.linuxclustersinstitute.org/Linux-HPC-Revolution</A><BR>


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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>O'Reilly Open Source Convention</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>July 7-11, 2003<BR>Portland, OR<BR>
        <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/" target="_blank">
        http://conferences.oreilly.com/</A><BR>

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        <b>12th USENIX Security Symposium</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>August 4-8, 2003<BR>Washington, DC<BR>
        <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/" target="_blank">
        http://www.usenix.org/events/</A><BR>

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        <b>LinuxWorld Conference & Expo</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>August 5-7, 2003<BR>San Francisco, CA<BR>
        <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com" target="_blank">
        http://www.linuxworldexpo.com</A><BR>

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        <b>Linux Lunacy</b><BR><i>Brought to you by Linux Journal and
	Geek Cruises!</i><br>
        <td valign=top>September 13-20, 2003<BR>Alaska's Inside Passage<BR>
        <a href="http://www.geekcruises.com/home/ll3_home.html" target="_blank">
        http://www.geekcruises.com/home/ll3_home.html</A><BR>

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        <b>Software Development Conference & Expo</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>September 15-19, 2003<BR>Boston, MA<BR>
        <a href="http://www.sdexpo.com" target="_blank">
        http://www.sdexpo.com</A><BR>

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        <b>PC Expo</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>September 16-18, 2003<BR>New York, NY<BR>
        <a href="http://www.http://www.techxny.com/pcexpo_techxny.cfm"
target="_blank">
        http://www.techxny.com/pcexpo_techxny.cfm</A><BR>

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        <b>COMDEX Canada</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>September 16-18, 2003<BR>Toronto, Ontario<BR>
        <a href="http://www.comdex.com/canada/" target="_blank">
        http://www.comdex.com/canada/</A><BR>

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        <b>LISA (17th USENIX Systems Administration Conference)</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>October 26-30, 2003<BR>San Diego, CA<BR>
        <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa03/" target="_blank">
        http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa03/</A><BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>HiverCon 2003</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>November 6-7, 2003<BR>Dublin, Ireland<BR>
        <a href="http://www.hivercon.com/" target="_blank">
        http://www.hivercon.com/</A><BR>

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<tr><td valign=top>
        <b>COMDEX Fall</b><BR>
        <td valign=top>November 17-21, 2003<BR>Las Vegas, NV<BR>
        <a href="http://www.comdex.com/fall2003/" target="_blank">
        http://www.comdex.com/fall2003/</A><BR>

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<FONT COLOR="green">IBM and Smallpox
</FONT>
</H3> 



<P> 
<a href="http://www.ibm.com">
IBM</a>,
United Devices and Accelrys have announced a project supporting a global
research effort that is focused on the development of new drugs that could
potentially combat the smallpox virus post infection.
The Smallpox Research Grid Project is powered by an
IBM infrastructure, which includes IBM eServer[tm] p690 systems and IBM's
Shark Enterprise Storage Server running DB2[r] database software using AIX
and Linux.



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<FONT COLOR="green">Opera and the Swedish Chef Go After Microsoft
</FONT>
</H3> 
<P>
<a href="http://www.opera.com/">
Opera Software</a> has released a very special Bork edition of its Opera 7 for
Windows browser.  The Bork edition behaves differently on one Web site:
MSN. Users accessing the MSN site
<a href="http://www.msn.com/">
http://www.msn.com/</a>
will see the page transformed into the language of the famous Swedish Chef
from the Muppet Show: Bork, Bork, Bork!  This is retaliation to apparent
targeting by MSN of Opera users.  Opera browser users were supplied with a
different stylesheet to MSIE users, which made the site display in a less
appealing way.


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<FONT COLOR="green">Debian
</FONT>
</H3> 
<P>
Debian Weekly News
<a href="http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2003/05/">
reported</a>
the
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce-0301/msg00009.html">
announcement</a>
of the new
<a href="http://ftp-master.debian.org/ziyi_key_2003.asc">
archive key</a> for 2003.  This is used to sign the Release file for the
main, non-US and security archives, and can be used with apt-check-sigs to
improve security when using mirrors.
<P>
<hr width="20%" noshade>
<P>
Also 
<a href="http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2003/05/">
from DWN</a>, and of use to many Debian users, is
<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-openoffice-0301/msg00169.html">
Adrian Bunk's announcement</a>
of the backport of OpenOffice.org 1.0.2 to woody.  Packages are 
<a href="http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/packages/">
available online</a>.
<P>
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<P>
Debian 
<a href="http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2232216">
powers PRISMIQ MediaPlayer</a>
home entertainment gateway device.
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<FONT COLOR="green">Knoppix
</FONT>
</H3> 
<P>
IBM developerWorks has published a 
<a href="http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-knopp.html?ca=dgr-lnxw02Knoppix">
recent article</a> on Knoppix.
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<FONT COLOR="green">Mandrake
</FONT>
</H3> 
<P>
<a href="http://www.distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=review-mandrake">
Part 4</a>
of DistroWatch's review of Mandrake 9.1 is online
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<FONT COLOR="green">SuSE
</FONT>
</H3> 
<P>
<a href="http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=199">
Open For Business</a>
has published
<a href="http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=199">
a review</a>
of SuSE Linux 8.1
<P>
NewsForge has
<a href="http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/1411244">
reviewed</a>
SuSE Linux Office Desktop.



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<FONT COLOR="green">Vector
</FONT>
</H3> 
LinuxHardware.org have
<a href="http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/28/159200">
reviewed</a>
Vector Linux 2.5 SOHO edition.
While 
<a href="http://www.madpenguin.org/article.php?sid=62">
Mad Penguin reports</a>
the release of version 3.2.


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<FONT COLOR="green">C.O.L.A software news
</FONT>
</H3> 
A small selection of
<a
href="http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_en|lang_fr&ie=UTF-8&group=comp.os.linux.announce">
announcements from February</a>:
<ul>
<li>
The GUI library wxWindoes version 2.4.0
<a href="http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=lang_en|lang_fr&ie=UTF-8&group=comp.os.linux.announce&selm=YgQY9.48099%24ZE.1355872%40twister2.libero.it">
has been released</a>.
</li>
<li>
The release of Version 22.4.1 of LILO has
<a href="http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=lang_en|lang_fr&ie=UTF-8&group=comp.os.linux.announce&selm=2iui3v0f63j8gulutuhbuj37gtai93rhfa%404ax.com">
been announced</a>.
</li>
<li>
teTeX version 2.0 
<a href="http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=lang_en|lang_fr&ie=UTF-8&group=comp.os.linux.announce&selm=b1k4kd%243n%241%40newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de">
is now available</a> as is
<a href="http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=lang_en|lang_fr&ie=UTF-8&group=comp.os.linux.announce&selm=20030207102557.GA71474%40compsoc.man.ac.uk">
Lyx version 1.3.0</a>.
</li>
</ul>
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<FONT COLOR="green">Candy Cruncher
</FONT>
</H3> 
<P>
<a href="http://www.linuxgamepublishing.com/">
LGP</a>
is pleased to announce that
<a href="http://www.linuxgamepublishing.com/info.php?id=10">
Candy Cruncher</a>
has arrived from the replicators and is available immediately.
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<FONT COLOR="green">CourseForum 1.3
</FONT>
</H3> 
<P>
<a href="http://www.courseforum.com">
CourseForum Technologies</a>
today introduced CourseForum 1.3, its web-based
software for e-learning content creation, sharing and discussion.
CourseForum can be hosted on MacOS X, Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP, Linux or
other Unixes, while users need only a standard web browser.
<P> <hr> <P> 
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<FONT COLOR="green">ProjectForum 1.3
</FONT>
</H3> 
<P>
CourseForum Technologies today introduced 
<a href="http://www.projectforum.com">
ProjectForum 1.3</a>,
a web-based software for flexible workgroup collaboration and coordination
of projects and teams.  ProjectForum can be hosted on MacOS X, Windows
98/ME/NT/2000/XP, Linux or other Unixes, while users need only a standard
web browser.  Licenses start at US$199, and a free version is also
available.
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<FONT COLOR="green">AquaFold
</FONT>
</H3> 
<P> 
<a href="http://www.aquafold.com/">
AquaFold, Inc</a>
have 
<a href="http://www.aquafold.com/press_2_24_2003.html">
announced</a>
the latest version of
<a href="http://www.aquafold.com/downloads.html">
Aqua Data Studio</a>, a
universal database tool for building, managing and maintaining enterprise
relational databases.  Aqua Data Studio includes support for all major
database platforms such as Oracle 8i/9i, IBM DB2, Sybase Adaptive Server,
Microsoft SQL Server and the open source databases MySQL and PostgreSQL.
Developed with the Java programming language, Aqua Data Studio supports all
major operating systems, including Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OSX, and Solaris.
<a href="http://www.aquafold.com/screenshots.html">
Screenshots</a> and
<a href="http://www.aquafold.com/downloads.html">
downloads</a> available online.



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