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The Movie Studios' Next Step in Online Movie Delivery
Con Zymaris writes "Here's another piece on the how the movie studios are trying to co-opt the movie delivery mechanisms of the 'counter-culture' set, but instill major restrictions such as IP-address range verification to ensure country of origin, and maximum 24-hour-play lifetime for each downloaded movie." -
What Does The Future Hold For Linux?
Nailer asks: "With kernel 2.4 in the final stages of bug hunting, and on track for a December release, I thought it might be pertinent to discuss the future of Linux. What now? ReiserFS will apparently be in 2.4.1, but there's very little information about the mid to long term available. Where do you think Linux [the OS, as well as the kernel] will head in the future? Personally, I'd really like to see POSIX ACLs as the default permission system [allowing the fine grained access control that many apps try and implement themselves]. What do you think?" -
AOL teams up with NCI
AOL announced today it is teaming up with NCI, as software partner, to build a range of AOL set-top boxes. NCI uses FreeBSD suggesting AOL may be shipping FreeBSD based boxes. The devices will use MediaGX chips from National/Cyrix. Update: 05/12 04:07 by S : Paul Wain of NCI wrote in to tell me in an unofficial capacity that their "Corporate" Machines use a NetBSD derivative but the consumer ones use other OSes. Some of our server products use FreeBSD but not the "Consumer" ones. -
How the australian business breakfast went
Some people from Down Under had the good idea of making a business breakfast which would introduce Business users to Linux and dispell some of the FUD. It went rather well, with 75 attendees and support from Oracle. It even included a spontaneous comparison of Linux/NT reliability. -
Gimp and Red Hat Linux win awards
Con Zymaris wrote in to tell us that APC (Australian Personal Computer Magazine) has Given some awards to a few familiar faces: Productivity Sofware of 1998 to The Gimp and their Just Plain Cool Award 1998 to Red Hat Linux 5.1 -
Re-Emergence of Unix threatens NT
Con Zymaris writes "NC World does an interesting analysis on NT and Unix (including Linux) Among the comments are: "While NT has a few advantages over Unix (it has a more flexible security model for its NTFS filesystem, for example), one could go on almost indefinitely about its disadvantages. Windows NT suffers from design flaws as annoying as its inexcusable handling of system DLLs to a dangerous kernel model that invites driver crashes."" Read the whole thing at NC World"
