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Ten-ders New Security Update
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getconf
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Basic
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07.19.05
New
GNU Source Installer eases Unix source installations
GNU/Linux distributions and other Unix and Unix-like operating systems already
offer a plethora of tools for installing software. Many of them rely on different
package formats, and a lot of the GNU/Linux distributions' effort goes into maintaining
an updated and comprehensive list of ports or packages. Sometimes this great and
respectable effort does not suffice, however, and users must install from the
source packages provided by the developers.
It could be because they need some optional and less frequently used feature that
must be compiled in. A binary package might be unavailable yet from the vendor
or distributor, and maybe it never will be. Whatever the reason, sometimes fetching
a source package and building it is the only way to go.
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Linux-Unix
copy-code dispute rumbles on
A 2002 email suggests that an investigation commissioned by The SCO Group failed
to produce any evidence that Linux contained copyrighted Unix code.
The email, which was sent to SCO Group CEO Darl McBride by a senior vice president
at the company, forwards on an email from a SCO engineer. In the email, dated
13 August, 2002, engineer Michael Davidson said: "At the end, we had found
absolutely nothing ie [sic] no evidence of any copyright infringement whatsoever."
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Longhorn
following Unix on security?
Microsoft's delayed Longhorn operating system appears to be taking a page from
the Unix management book by curbing user's administration rights.
Mike Nash, Microsoft's security business and technology unit corporate vice president,
has said Longhorn would accord end-users certain rights and privileges apparently
ending the concept that everyone using their PC is also the PC's administrator.
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Enterprise
Unix Roundup: The Return of the Prodigal Distro
When we're not cranking out the best in enterprise Unix news, some of us at Roundup
like to indulge in the occasional comic book. Our favorites, by far, are the special
issues where the writers come up with some kind of contrivance to pair heroes
like Wood Man and Bird Boy. Individually, they're not enough to stop the likes
of Mr. Malign and his robot army, but together ... ?
To judge from a series of stories in the past several weeks, it seems like the
enterprise Linux world is getting its own special team-up: Progeny and whomever
cares to join it in its efforts to elbow a place at a table everyone else assumes
has been set for Red Hat and Novell/SUSE.
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