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November 2000 Linux Journal

All articles through December 1999 are available for public reading at http://www.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/mags.html. Recent articles are available on-line for subscribers only at http://interactive.linuxjournal.com/. 

Caldera

The Beta is available for download from http://www.calderasystems.com/beta/.

Conectiva

Lute

In a further initiative LinuxFreeSupport will be authoring ShowMeLinux's 'Support Line'. The Support Line is a column offering answers to questions posed by readers regarding such topics as installations, networking, administration, applications, and the desktop.

Mandrake

Red Flag

Red Flag Linux Server 2.0 was developed strictly in accordance with international L118NUX standards and General Public License regulations.

Red Flag E-business Start Kit 1.0 is an integrated solution for businesses. It consists of six components: Red Flag Linux Server 2.0; e-Office, for users to easily transfer internal data via the Internet; e-Shop, where users can easily create their own e-shops through the Internet; Web Mail, providing an inter-platform e-mail system manager designed for businesses; Web BBS, for customers to offer feedback and suggestions on the message board; and Ez2min, a remote monitoring software for the Linux system operated through the browser.

Mr. Alex Banh, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of SW Linux has expressed a commitment to developing international markets for homegrown Chinese software and to promoting Linux training in local Chinese institutes.

Rock

SuSE

The Professional Edition of SuSE 7.0 contains a collection of power tools including VMWare Workstation for Linux, Emhydra by Lutris Technologies, PostGreSQL. Suse Linux 7.0 Professional is supplied on 6 CDs and four manuals. 90 days of installation and basic configuration support by phone, fax or email are also included in the Professional version, which is available from OS/2 Express for R615. Contact OS/2 Express. We are advised that a limited number of evaluation packages are available. 

Upcoming conferences & events

Courtesy Linux Journal's Events page.

Linux Business Expo (co-located with COMDEX event)	November 13-17, 2000 Las Vegas, NV www.key3media.com/linuxbizexpo
USENIX Winter - LISA 2000	December 3-8, 2000 New Orleans, LA www.usenix.org
Pluto Meeting 2000	December 9-11, 2000 Terni, Italy meeting.pluto.linux.it
LinuxWorld Conference & Expo	January 30 - February 2, 2001 New York, NY www.linuxworldexpo.com
ISPCON	February 5-8, 2001 Toronto, Canada events.internet.com
Internet World Spring	March 12-16, 2001 Los Angeles, CA events.internet.com
Game Developers Conference	March 20-24, 2001 San Jose, CA www.cgdc.com
CeBit	March 22-28, 2001 Hannover, Germany www.cebit.de
Linux Business Expo	April 2-5, 2001 Chicago, IL www.linuxbusinessexpo.com
Strictly e-Business Solutions Expo	May 23-24, 2001 Location unknown at present www.stricltyebusinessexpo.com
USENIX Annual Technical Conference	June 25-30, 2001 Boston, MA www.usenix.org
PC Expo	June 26-29, 2001 New York, NY www.pcexpo.com
Internet World	July 10-12, 2001 Chicago, IL events.internet.com
O'Reilly Open Source Convention	July 23-26, 2001 San Diego, CA conferences.oreilly.com
LinuxWorld Conference & Expo	August 10-14, 2001 New York, NY www.linuxworldexpo.com
Linux Lunacy Co-Produced by Linux Journal and Geek Cruises	October 21-28, 2001 Eastern Carribean www.geekcruises.com

Jabber.com Announces Palm Integration and Three-Way Partnership for New Jabber Wireless Initiative

Jabber has also announced a strategic relationship with Red Hat to deliver real-time messaging infrastructure to Red Hat embedded Linux. Elements of this were showcased at the Embedded Systems 2000 show, September, in San Jose, Calif. Jabber is the only open source, XML-based platform for extensible instant messaging applications. For the latest developments on the Jabber landscape, consult their news site.

Dell First To Market with Red Hat Linux 7

Neoware

VMware Announces New User Group Program

Sensiva partners with Wacom Asia Pacific

China Internet laws

CNN has a scary article about China's Internet laws. "Internet content and service providers must keep records of all the content that appears on their Web sites and all the users who dial on to their servers for 60 days, and hand the records to police on demand, the rules state."

Definitions of illegal content are vague, such as "spreading rumors", "disrupting social stability", gambling and pornography. The rules also forbid "harming ethnic unity" and "advocating cults and feudal superstition" -- terms often invoked to prosecute suspected Tibetan independence activists and members of Falun Gong and other spiritual movements.

Opera, PalmPalm and Trolltech form Strategic Alliance for Asian Embedded Linux Market

Linux Total Solution for Wireless Internet Appliance consists of Opera's "Opera for Linux" Web browser, Trolltech's "Qt/Embedded," an embedded GUI environment and windowing system, integrated with PalmPalm's "Tynux," a Linux Operating System optimized for the wireless Internet. This is to provide a complete embedded Linux solution for wireless Internet devices.

Linux Links

The Duke of URL Links

• Linux Buyer's Guide #5 Includes details on current state of video cards for linux, 3dfx, Matrox, the works. Also, looks at configured systems covering the gamut of price points, and examines where the future hardware advances will take us.
• 3D on Linux HowTo Covers setup of NVidia, 3dfx and Matrox accelerated drivers. Plus, an overview of 3D in Linux.
• Interview with Nick Triantos While NVidia has broken into Linux, there is still much mystery behind their drivers. Open source, closed-source, licensed technologies and more are our subjects today with our guest, Nick Triantos of NVidia.
• Libranet Linux 1.8 Libranet is based on the Debian Potato, and sports a new breed of user-friendliness and a scaled-down package selection that even includes the likes of QuakeForge. Read a review here.
• Wireless LAN Overview The Duke of URL's newest writer has just whipped up an overview on Wireless LAN technology

Did Al Gore invent the Internet?

Anchordesk UK links:

• Linus has no problem with large-system vendors making kernel patches
  --or--
  How a famous 3-letter vendor of Big Iron is trying hard not to use that other 4-letter f-word that ends in "k" and whose second letter is "o".
• Can Cobalt make Sun shine? On Sun's acquisition of Cobalt, maker of the Cobalt Qube.

Kernel Wiki invites contributions of documentation/illumination on aspects of the Linux kernel.

Word processing in Linux : a business perspective.

The Ninth International Python Conference.

Gimp-Savvy.com contains a guide called "Grokking the GIMP", which covers the use of the GIMP's core tools and shows how nine major projects were done.

The HP-HOWTO shows how to use Linux with various Hewlett-Packard products, and what level of Linux support there is for each product.

European lawmakers propose to make hacking illegal. (MSNBC)

An interesting proposal to force abandoned copyrighted products into the public domain. (OS Opinion)

A review of four Windows emulators and PC emulators. (Linux World)

Linux in the financial industry. (Tech Web)

Embedded OS licencing fees: how the lack of licencing fees for embedded Linux products will enable many times more embedded devices to appear on the market and allow smaller companies to get in on the act. (ZDnet)

Interview with Vincent Rijmen of the Rindael AES algorithm, a DES replacement which is much harder to crack. Rindael is unencumbered by intellectual-property and patent claims. (Linux Security)

NetworX Linux Cluster Helps Researchers Fight Disease

Using a 32-processor cluster system from Linux NetworX, Baylor College of Medicine reconstructs the molecular configurations of disease and illness-causing viruses and other molecules and develops three-dimensional models of their structures. A cutting-edge technique then allows researchers to view the viruses as if they were locks. By properly studying these "locks," they hope to find the "keys" to opening and destroying them. In the past, much of this research was done on large supercomputers costing millions of dollars. But today, because of price-performance issues, clustered-computer alternatives are being selected to handle the large amounts of computation, data handling and storage required.

In the past, scientists used trial and error methods to create vaccines and drugs to fight viruses. But now, using clustered computers and other technologies, they are able to define the structure of these viruses and attempt to design drugs that will solve the specific problems each one presents.

In further good news for the company, the Linux NetworX Evolocity (TM) cluster server receives Best of Show Award for Network Servers & Peripherals from InernetWeek and Network Computing at NetWorld+Interop 2000 Atlanta. The Evolocity cluster server, introduced at the show, is designed for managing and optimizing Web traffic in the Internet market.

Tridia

Teamware Office 5.3 for Linux

Proven CHOICE Accounting releases Internet Toolkit

Workstation Solutions Announces Quick Restore 2.7

Internet C++ (ICVM) Alpha Release

Other software

The Opera web browser 4.0 for Linux is now in beta.

Magic Software is building an e-tailing solution called TISTrade for Toyo Information Systems, based on Magic eMerchant. TISTrade will make it easier for manufacturers and retailers outside Japan to sell to consumers in Japan.