LINUX PIPELINE NEWSLETTER
Tuesday December 23, 2003

Happy Holidays! Merry Christmas! The Best of New Years to All!

Let's hope the new year brings an end to SCO's attempts to earn
its daily bread through pointless litigation, the continued rise
of Linux's server market share, and a Linux-desktop GUI
breakthrough that proves to be an order-of-magnitude improvement
for Linux usability and configurability -- making for less
expensive training and IT support costs.

While we're at it, let's hope for the continued rapid growth of
open-source-based enterprise applications, and a year of marked
innovation and emphasis on mainstream business desktop apps for
Linux PCs. Did I miss anything?

Linux Pipeline Newsletter will be off next week for the holidays,
but will return on Tuesday, January 6, 2004.

--Scot Finnie, Co-Editor, Linux Pipeline
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/
sfinnie@techweb.com

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IN THIS ISSUE
1. Only The Best Linux And Open-Source News
2. How-To: Find Open-Source Documentation
3. Trends: Q&A With Darl McBride And Chris Sontag Of SCO Group
4. Voting Booth: What's The Best Linux Distro?
5. News/Analysis: Linux's Recent One-Two Punch - Rooney
6. Expert Views: SCO's House of Suits
7. Find Web Servers In Product Finder
8. Check Out The Linux Pipeline Topic Categories
   - Core Linux
   - Applications
   - Enterprise Open Source
   - Business
9. Tell A Colleague About Linux Pipeline Newsletter
10. Have You Discovered The Other Pipelines?
11. Change Your Subscription Options


1. ONLY THE BEST LINUX AND OPEN-SOURCE NEWS

Details Emerge About SCO's Copyright Warning To Linux Customers
     As it lays the groundwork for a potential copyright
     infringement case against Linux, SCO has sent cease-and-
     desist letters to select Fortune 1000 companies charging
     them with illegally using more than 65 SCO-owned Application
     Binary Interfaces (ABIs) without permission.
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=17100044

Microsoft Polls Linux Users
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=17000564

Fujitsu, Red Hat Partner In Linux Development
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=17000515

Red Hat Buys Linux Storage ISV Sistina for $31 Million
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=17000377

Sun's Schwartz Rails Against Microsoft Decision To Pull JVM
Products
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=17000518

Linux 2.6 Kernel Finished, Says OSDL
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=17000231

Xandros Ships Desktop 2
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=16900100

Check Linux Pipeline's News page for the latest news:
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/


2. HOW-TO: Find Open-Source Documentation
     Think open-source apps have terrible documentation? Think
     again. You just need to know where to look.
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/howto/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=16401043


3. TRENDS: Q&A With Darl McBride And Chris Sontag Of SCO Group
     SCO Group CEO Darl McBride and Senior Vice President Chris
     Sontag recently met with CRN Industry Editor Barbara Darrow
     to discuss a variety of topics related to SCO's suit against
     IBM and an unnamed Enterprise Linux User. The SCO-IBM case
     IS slated to hit a Utah courtroom in 18 months. Earlier this
     month, a Utah judge ruled that SCO must show the code at
     issue in this case within 30 days. Open-source advocates
     have maintained that SCO has no case. SCO says IBM violated
     its contract.
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=17000503


4. VOTING BOOTH: What's The Best Linux Distro?
     Is it Debian? Red Hat? SuSE? Mandrake? Or none of the above?
     Come cast your vote on the best Linux distribution provider.
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/vote/favdistro_1223.jhtml


5. NEWS/ANALYSIS: Linux's Recent One-Two Punch - Rooney
     The Linux market got a major shot in the arm when the OSDL
     announced the completion of the Linux 2.6 production kernel
     and Novell released its NetWare services on Linux.
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/trends/index.jhtml


6. EXPERT VIEWS: SCO's House of Suits - Preston
     SCO's strategy isn't based on products, technology and
     customer service. It's based on litigation.
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=16900040


7. FIND WEB SERVERS IN PRODUCT FINDER
This week, wade into Web Servers category in Linux Pipeline's
Product Finder:

http://productfinder.linuxpipeline.com/index.cgi?search=Search&final_cat1=6&category=16&sub_cat=54

For other Product Finder product categories, browse or search the
database from its home page:

http://productfinder.linuxpipeline.com/


8. CHECK OUT THE LINUX PIPELINE TOPIC CENTERS

Core Linux:
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/corelinux/

Applications:
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/applications/

Enterprise Open Source:
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/enterprise/

Business:
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/business/


9. TELL A FRIEND
If you know a colleague or co-worker who might be interested in
signing up for this newsletter, please forward it to him or her
and point out the subscription page:

http://www.linuxpipeline.com/newsletter.jhtml


10. HAVE YOU DISCOVERED THE OTHER PIPELINES?
Linux Pipeline is one is a series of specialized IT sites that
might be to your liking. Here are five others, and you can expect
more in the future:

Security Pipeline: http://www.securitypipeline.com/
Mobile Pipeline: http://www.mobilepipeline.com/
Storage Pipeline: http://www.storagepipeline.com/
Networking Pipeline: http://www.networkingpipeline.com/
Server Pipeline: http://www.serverpipeline.com/

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