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Novell Announces New Product Lifecycle Policy

The new policy gives 7 year support lifecycles to Novell’s OS products including SuSE Linux Enterprise Server.

NOVELL: Product Support Lifecycle
“Novell’s Product Support Lifecycle provides consistent and predictable support availability guidelines, allowing you to effectively plan and manage your support needs. This lifecycle model took effect on 3 August 2005 and applies to most products currently available on Novell’s price list. To verify the lifecycle dates for a specific product, search in the “support status by product” tool on the right column of this page.“

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[Corrected] Jurist Looking For Student Editors

Law students wanted to blog… Neat idea. Jurist has certainly evolved into a great source for legal news and this year’s team of student editors has done a great job.

JURIST – Paper Chase: EDITORS WANTED ~ Research, write legal news in real time…
“JURIST is looking for talented, public-service oriented law students from law schools in the US and abroad to join our team of real-time legal news editors this fall. “

Note: I had mistakenly implied that this was a ‘blog for money’ situation when, in fact, the student editors of JURIST are a group of dedicated volunteers. Prof. Hibbitts reminds me “[t]he fact that JURIST student staffers work so hard, so long (days, evenings, weekends), and so enthusiastically *without* pay is the real story here. It’s a testament to their dedication, their commitment to public service, and their sense of what they get out of the good work they’re doing!”.

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ibiblio.org Launches BitTorrent for Content Providers

Slashdot | BitTorrent for Content Providers
“ibiblio.org has entered the fray, launching an enhanced BitTorrent site. Among the torrent offerings (all legal) are Linux kernels, distros, Project Gutenberg texts, and the ibiblio Speaker Series, which includes videos of talks by Larry Lessig, Robin Miller, and Dan Gillmor. ibiblio developed and open sourced the Osprey and Permaseed software to make BitTorrent seeding reliable, persistent, and suitable for large-scale content providers. Yes, you can find these torrents later.“

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Is RSS the Future of the Web?

This article by Mark Sigal disucsses 2 compelling applications that have RSS at their heart and demonstrate how RSS could/should be at the center of the new web.

Envisioning RSS as a Web 2.0 platform
“RSS began its life as a really simple way for content providers to syndicate their content and for content consumers to subscribe to their favorite providers. When the blogosphere emerged, RSS really took off. Now, just as its “simple” technology cousin, HTML, provided the underpinnings of the Web 1.0 technology platform, RSS is emerging as a platform for delivering the broadband and mobile ready applications of a Web 2.0 enabled world.”

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Novell to Resell MySQL

Novell to Resell MySQL
“MySQL has been picked up by Novell, its second huge reseller deal in so many days, the companies announced on Tuesday at LinuxWorld in San Francisco.

The companies are calling this the only accord of its kind between a Linux vendor and MySQL AB, purveyor of the popular open-source database MySQL. In the reseller and joint-support agreement, Novell Inc. will offer subscriptions to the MySQL Network, a subscription offering that includes MySQL software; updates and upgrades; alerts and advisors; MySQL’s online knowledgebase; and full, production-level technical support.”

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Dell Offers Support for MySQL, JBoss

This is in addition to support for Redhat Enterprise Linux and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server.

Dell Ups Wattage of LAMP
“On Monday, Dell announced that it is moving forward with enterprise-level support, not just for Linux, but also for two more key elements of the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP/Perl) stack: MySQL and JBoss.“