Linux Compatible - General (Page 3)

Crash test penguin? Chrysler meets Linux

General 8074 Published 2002-10-21 11:01 by Philipp Esselbach 0

CNET News reports that DaimlerChrysler has purchased 108 dual-processor Linux workstations from IBM to run car-crash simulations.

"DaimlerChrysler has been using computers to simulate crashes since the early 1990s, first with single supercomputers, then with clusters of systems running Unix. Now the company is switching to less-expensive systems with Intel processors running Red Hat's version of the Linux operating system, DaimlerChrysler said."

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Is Linux Really Going To Rule the Desktop?

General 8074 Published 2002-10-18 12:54 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Yahoo! News has posted a news story on Linux:

"The Linux (news - web sites) operating system remains strong in the server market, continuing to prove itself in a growing array of computing environments, including financial services, education and government. When it comes to the desktop, though, Linux can claim less than 1 percent market share, according to 2001 figures. Research firm IDC found the operating system is installed on just .5 percent of desktop PCs, while Mac OS has 2.4 percent desktop market share and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT - news) Windows has 95 percent."

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New KDE desktop: Tricks and treats

General 8074 Published 2002-10-18 09:44 by Philipp Esselbach 0

ZDNet has posted a news story on KDE 3.1

"KDE 3.1 is due at the beginning of November, and the visual difference from its predecessor--version 3.0--will be immediately obvious, the group hopes. The software will ship with an icon set called Crystal and a new theme called Keramik, both of which have hints of Apple's Aqua interface in Mac OS X and Microsoft's Windows XP styling. It will use a new theme manager and windows will have drop-shadows to give the desktop a three-dimensional look."

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OpenEvidence: EU finances an Open Source project

General 8074 Published 2002-10-17 13:42 by Philipp Esselbach 0

The EU is very active in supporting Open Source development by providing financial aids to European projects of interest, like OpenEvidence that was approved to be realized by a consortium of technology providers and users from 4 countries: Belgium, France, Italy and Estonia.
In this contest C&A is very proud to announce its OpenEvidence participation, integrating its Time Stamping technology, to this

'evidence creation and validation system'

of electronic documents and activities.

The technology developed by the project can be used as basic building blocks to support such services as non-repudiation of electronic business transactions, property right protection and notarisation.
Implementations and demonstration services using the protocols defined in RFC 3029 (DVCS) and RFC 3161 (TSP) will be provided as initial activity.
A version of time stamping service can be also be tested on the C&A web site.

To learn more about
OpenEvidence

Software firm takes Passport outside Windows

General 8074 Published 2002-10-16 09:23 by Philipp Esselbach 0

InfoWorld reports that a small software development company this week disclosed that it will soon offer prebuilt versions of Microsoft Corp.'s Passport Internet-based authentication technology for the Unix and Linux operating systems.

"The news follows an announcement Thursday from Microsoft that it would share some of the source code for its single sign-on service. The Redmond, Washington, software maker said that it would make available in November the code to the Passport Manager -- software that links a Web site or a software application to Microsoft's Passport service, which allows users to log on to multiple Web-applications using a single password."

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SuSE Linux Takes on Exchange

General 8074 Published 2002-10-15 23:29 by Philipp Esselbach 0

The SuSE Linux project hopes that they've put one more piece in place to challenge Microsoft with their new alternative to the giant company's Exchange Server:

"In a move to challenge Microsoft Corp.'s Exchange, SuSE Linux will later this week announce that its new Openexchange Server will be available in mid-November.

The Openexchange Server will combine the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server operating system, an e-mail server and groupware functionalities in what a SuSE spokesman says is n "innovative all-in-one communication and groupware solution for companies of all sizes at an unmatched price/performance ratio.""

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Open source: Rebels at the gate

General 8074 Published 2002-10-15 10:08 by Philipp Esselbach 0

CNET News has posted an article on Open Source and Microsoft:

"For years, Bill Gates and other top executives at Microsoft railed against the economic philosophy of open-source software with Orwellian fervor, denouncing its communal licensing as a "cancer" that stifled technological innovation.

Today, Microsoft claims to "love" the open-source concept, by which software code is made public to encourage improvement and development by outside programmers. Gates himself says Microsoft will gladly disclose its crown jewels--the coveted code behind the Windows operating system--to select customers."

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Sun's Linux leader ready to use Linux

General 8074 Published 2002-10-09 23:11 by Philipp Esselbach 0

InfoWorld has posted a news story about Sun's move to Linux:

"John Loiacono, vice president of operating platforms at Sun, was spotted using Windows on his corporate laptop last month here at the Sun Network conference. Since that time, Loiacono has moved to Linux on both his work and home computers, as part of a company-wide program to abandon Windows altogether within Sun. With Sun's operating system chief coming up to speed on Linux, the company can bolster its claims that the open source OS's time as a desktop for big business may have come."

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Itanium gets Linux supercomputer boost

General 8074 Published 2002-10-09 23:08 by Philipp Esselbach 0

CNET News reports that Quadrics has made its products compatible with systems built around Intel's Itanium 2 chip.

"The move is small victory in Intel's long-running campaign to build a complete set of computing technology around the high-end Itanium family, a dramatic departure from its mainstream Pentium, Xeon and Celeron processors. The Itanium family has been slow to catch on, in part because it requires that software be overhauled. "

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Linux TCO: Less Than Half The Cost of Windows

General 8074 Published 2002-10-09 12:31 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Saw over PCLinuxOnline that EarthWeb has posted a Linux TCO article

"The cost of running Linux is roughly 40% that of Microsoft Windows, and only 14% that of Sun Microsystem's Solaris, according to a new study which examined the actual costs of running various operating systems over three years."

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IBM rolls out spruced-up AIX, Unix/Linux clustering software

General 8074 Published 2002-10-08 17:08 by Philipp Esselbach 0

InfoWorld has posted two Linux related news stories:

IBM rolls out spruced-up AIX, Unix/Linux clustering software
IBM CONTINUES ITS cascade of mainframe-class technologies down onto its lower-end servers, announcing on Tuesday a new version of AIX 5L that can carry out workload balancing as well as new clustering software for managing clusters made up of Unix and Intel-based Linux servers.

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Lindows to court: "windows" is generic term
SOFTWARE MAKER LINDOWS.COM said Tuesday that it has filed for a summary judgment in its battle against Microsoft, claiming that the similarities between the Lindows and Windows names do not impede on Microsoft's copyrights since "windows" is a generic term for a type of software product.

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Opinion: Who killed IE for Unix?

General 8074 Published 2002-10-05 22:26 by Philipp Esselbach 0

ExtremeTech has posted an article on the disappearance of IE for Unix:

Somebody at Microsoft recently decided to whack Internet Explorer for Unix. Why was it killed? Who pulled the trigger? Lots of questions but, unfortunately, few answers...

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Linux heavies play version name game

General 8074 Published 2002-10-03 11:31 by Philipp Esselbach 0

CNET News has a new story on the next Kernel version number:

"Linus Torvalds and other central Linux programmers are debating whether the next version of the operating system should be numbered 2.6, or if its new features merit the grander designation 3.0."

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IBM sells Linux to retailers

General 8074 Published 2002-09-25 11:12 by Philipp Esselbach 0

CNET News has posted some Linux related news:

IBM sells Linux to retailers
IBM has made some progress in its effort to spread the Linux operating system far and wide, selling thousands of high-tech cash registers to two sizable customers.

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Start-up banks on hack-proof Linux
Start-up Guardian Digital has launched an effort to sell a version of Linux that's less vulnerable to attack, a niche the company hopes will gain it a foothold in the market for the Unix-like operating system.

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MySQL adding transaction support to open-source database

General 8074 Published 2002-09-21 23:24 by Philipp Esselbach 0

InfoWorld reports that MySQL is adding transactional support to its database

"In an announcement to be officially made on Monday, MySQL will announce that transactional support will be added to MySQL Pro, the version of the company's database that is intended for corporate deployment. Transactional support had been in MySQL Max, an experimental version of the product."

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Sun details plans to sell Linux desktops

General 8074 Published 2002-09-19 01:31 by Philipp Esselbach 0

InfoWorld reports that Sun unveiled its plans to offer Linux desktop computers

"Sun will target the machines initially at businesses, governments, and schools for use in call centers, retail banks, classrooms, and other settings where the full functionality of a PC isn't needed, said Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's executive vice president of software, who showed one of the systems for the first time here at the start of the SunNetwork conference. The systems are being developed at Sun under the name Project Mad Hatter."

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IBM pSeries to Offer Native Linux

General 8074 Published 2002-09-18 23:11 by Philipp Esselbach 0

eWeek reports that the new IBM pSeries will run Linux natively

"IBM will soon introduce new versions of its high-end p690 and p670 servers designed to run Linux natively."

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SuSE Linux Drops StarOffice

General 8074 Published 2002-09-18 23:07 by Philipp Esselbach 0

eWeek reports that SuSE drops StarOffice

"Instead the German-based Linux vendor is opting for the free OpenOffice alternative. "

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Sun to shed light on desktop Linux plans

General 8074 Published 2002-09-17 21:26 by Philipp Esselbach 0

InfoWorld has posted an article on Sun's desktop Linux plans

"Sun Microsystems is expected to unveil a Frankenstein-like desktop Linux strategy this week, combining various software elements developed in-house or by open-source community projects and third-party vendors."

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Red Hat to Simplify Desktop UIs

General 8074 Published 2002-09-17 21:20 by Philipp Esselbach 0

eWeek has posted an article on Red Hat

"Red Hat, the open-source and Linux technology provider, has moved to explain its decision to configure the KDE and GNOME desktop environments to look and behave in similar fashion in the upcoming release of Red Hat Linux."

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