BW: IDG World Expo Announces Winner of The $25,000 IDG/Linus Torvalds
Community Award

"IDG World Expo,...today announced the Free Software Foundation (FSF) as
the winner of its $25,000 "IDG/Linus Torvalds
Community Award" for its continued support of the Linux community."


http://www.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=Cn6zPqbKbyte1ntm&FQ=linux&SymHdl=1&Nav=na-search-&StoryTitle=linux

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BW: TheLinuxStore.com to Offer Next-Generation Alpha Solutions from API

"Offering Price-Performance Alpha Solutions to the Linux Market"

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/990803/az_ebiz_en_1.html

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PRNewswire: New BRU 15.1 Adds Easy Disaster Recovery

"Enhanced Software Technologies, Inc. (EST) the developer of the #1
award-winning BRU(TM) Backup & Restore Utility for Linux systems today
announced the release of BRU 15.1."

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/990803/az_enhance_1.html

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Linux Today Quick Takes

News items of casual interest.

http://linuxtoday.com/stories/8315.html

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LinuxTicker: Penguin who likes dwarfs (Myth II review)

"Rado has written a short review of the beta version of Myth II:
Soulblighter for Linux. He also compares the Linux port to the Windows
version. Additionally he talks a bit about games in general and especially
about commercial and free games on Linux."

http://linuxticker.com/artikel/131.html

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BeNews: Open Sourcing BeOS

"... the most often requested "feature" that be added to BeOS is to open
the
source code."

http://www.benews.com/story/?ID=1732

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Linux/OpenGL BOF at SIGGRAPH '99

At SIGGRAPH '99 in LA there will be a Linux/OpenGL 'Birds of a Feather'
meeting. People and companies involved in OpenGL and Linux will give
status updates on their work and products and then field questions from
the attendees."

http://linuxtoday.com/stories/8303.html

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BW: VERITAS Software Announces Linux Backup Support Initiative

"VERITAS Software Backup Product Lines Now Deliver Support for Linux"

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/990803/ca_veritas_1.html

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BW: Red Hat Appoints Thomas V. Butta Chief Marketing Officer

"Strategic Marketing, Branding and Communications Veteran Joins the Market
Leader of Linux Solutions to Enhance Growing Appeal of Open Source
Technology"

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/990803/nc_redhat__1.html

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PR Newswire: VA Linux Systems Exceeds Quarterly Sales Projections With
220% Growth

"VA Linux Systems and Linux.com Maintain Growth Consistent With Increasing
Popularity of the Linux Open Source-Based Operating System"

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/990803/ca_va_linu_1.html

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NY Times: Software Makers Scramble to Address Security Flaw

"These bugs are particularly insidious because they allow abusers to
plant arbitrary programs on a computer merely by sending an e-mail or
convincing a user to visit a malicious Web page."

http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/08/biztech/articles/03soft.html