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The trial in Norway of Jon Johansen regarding his involvement in the
development of software to circumvent the content encryption used on DVD
movies has ended ... again ... for now. As was reported before, Jon was
already acquitted of the charges, but an appeal against the verdict was
quickly filed by state prosecutors. Happily for Johansen, the appeal
court has upheld the earlier acquittal. Less happily, there is the
possibility of further appeals to higher Norwegian courts. A detailed
<a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=696330">
report on the story is available at Aftenposten</a>.
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Linux Weekly News has released
<a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/Timeline2003/">
a timeline for the past year</a>.
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RMS has written
<a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/12/16/187234">
a personal account of his experiences at and opinions of</a>
the recent World Summit on the Information Society
<P>
<a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/12/18/1455245">
Helping to introduce charities to free software</a> [NewsForge]
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Using a Linux desktop for
<a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/12/10/2345242">
graphics and media production</a>
<P>
How the
<a href="http://www.worldvista.org/">
WorldVista</a> software
is to be used
<a href="http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/12/19/1717224">
to affordably help medical systems in the less-developed
world</a> [NewsForge].
<P>
Linux Mobile System's
<a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6805529669.html">
GNU/Linux system boots from a USB pendrive</a>
<P>
<a href="http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/12/07/1551233">
NewsVac highligted</a>
an interesting article at OSNews about
<a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5335">
the state of video editing on Linux/Unix</a>.
<P>
<a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1151517">
VNUnet reports on the use of Linux</a> in the earthside systems behind
the (possibly ill-fated, it now appears) Beagle Mars lander.
<P>
An interesting article from O'Reilly.com
<a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/12/11/myths.html">
Myths Open Source Developers Tell Ourselves</a>
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The Economist on
<a href="http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displaystory.cfm?story_id=2246308">
regional Linux variants</a>
<P> Upcoming Linux conferences and events are listed on <EM>Linux
Journal</EM>'s <A HREF="http://www.linuxjournal.com/events.php">Events</A>
page.
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<FONT COLOR="green">Linux Kernel 2.6 Released
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<a href="http://www.kernel.org/">
The Linux kernel</a> has a new stable version.
Version 2.6.0 was released on the 18th of December. The
<a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.0">
Changelog can be read here</a>, while
<a href="http://linuxtoday.com/developer/2003121901226NWKNDV">
a more conversational announcement can be read here</a>.
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<a href="http://www.theregister.com/content/4/34522.html">
The Register reported earlier this month</a>
that the Israeli Treasury was following earlier moves by the Department
of Commerce and investigating the possibility of using open source
software in place of Microsoft offerings.
<a href="http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/376193.html">
As noted by Zuri Dar in Haaretz</a>, this could well be no more than a
ploy to gouge a better price out of Microsoft for their software.
However, there does appear to be some real momentum behind the open
source initiatives as the government has
<a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=55243">
instigated plans to distribute free OpenOffice.org CDs to the Israeli
public</a>.
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<FONT COLOR="green">CollegeLinux
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As
<a href="http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/12/23/1859241">
plugged at NewsVac</a>
the
<a href="http://linux.college.ch/index.php">CollegeLinux project</a>
has
<a href="http://linux.college.ch/news.php?jedi=show&id=9c5f9bf">
released version 2.5 ObiWan</a>
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<a href="http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2003/52/">
Debian Weekly News highlighted</a>
the
<a href="http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2003/timeline">
publication of the Debian Timeline for 2003</a>.
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<FONT COLOR="green">Lorma
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<a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5499">
OSNews recently reviewed</a>
Lorma linux 4.0. This distribution is based on Fedora (itself related
closely to Red Hat), and uses a trimmed down set of packages such that
it ships on a single CD. The focus is largely on desktop applications.
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<FONT COLOR="green">MySQL
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<a href="http://lists.mysql.com/announce/178">
Version 5.0.0 of MySQL has been released</a>.
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<a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/12/15/2313259">
NewsForge has reported</a>
that EMC has acquired VMware
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