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DistroWatch Off-line

General 8068 Published 2002-11-11 14:06 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Saw over PCLinuxOnline:

This is just a note for those who have tried to reach distrowatch.com for the last 6 hours, but were unable to get there: I have no idea what happened to the server hosting the site. I hope it gets back soon, but unfortunately I have little control over it. In the meantime, please use one of the mirrors:
distrowatch.linux.sk
distrowatch.planetmirror.com
distrowatch.linuxforum.hu

Linux 2.6 Multithreading Advances

General 8068 Published 2002-11-09 13:09 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Saw over Slashdot that Jerry Cooperstein has written an article explaining the competing threading implementations in the upcoming 2.6 kernel for the O'Reilly Network.

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Red Hat Tour Seeks Feedback From Community

General 8068 Published 2002-11-08 12:33 by Philipp Esselbach 0

LinuxPlanet has posted a report from the Red Hat Road Tour 2002

MySQL AB Settles With NuSphere

General 8068 Published 2002-11-08 11:44 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Saw over SlashDot that MySQL AB has settled its dispute with NuSphere

Is Microsoft losing ground to Linux?

General 8068 Published 2002-11-02 11:58 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Open-source software gave Microsoft a one-two punch this week, with the European Union and an African nonprofit educational organization showing preference for Linux systems.

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Brussels to spend 250k on Linux migration study

General 8068 Published 2002-10-31 09:50 by 0

The Register reports that the European Commission has awarded UK-based consultancy netproject a €250,000 contract to study the issues of migrating government computers in member states to a Linux / Open Source environment.

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Wal-Mart expands Linux offering

General 8068 Published 2002-10-31 09:41 by Philipp Esselbach 0

CNET News reports that Wal-Mart expands their Linux offering with Lycoris Desktop/LX

Germany likes Linux

General 8068 Published 2002-10-30 18:40 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Infoworld has posted two Linux related news stories:

Germany likes Linux
"THE OPEN SOURCE Linux operating system is making significant inroads into Germany, Europe's largest economy and home to some of the world's largest corporations.

That's the message being spread by numerous software executives attending the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in Frankfurt, Germany, from Tuesday through Thursday."

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Open source seeks growth in government market
"RED Hat and Dell teamed up on Tuesday as the sponsors of a conference here to "put some facts on the table" about open source software with the long-term goal of increasing its usage in the public sector."

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Yahoo Moving to PHP

General 8068 Published 2002-10-30 11:09 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Saw over Slashdot that Yahoo is moving to PHP:

"Yahoo has decided to switch from a proprietary system written in C/C++ to PHP for their backend scripting. Here's the notes from a presentation by a Yahoo engineer at PHP Con 2002."

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CZ Linux

General 8068 Published 2002-10-27 13:05 by Philipp Esselbach 0

I have set up this new website “CZ Linux”. My main aim is to produce a support forum that will be useful for the Linux Newbie right the way up to the more experienced Linux user, but more than this I am hoping it will become a community of like minded people that share a common interest in Linux.

Check it out

Secure Linux maker teams with IBM in U.S.

General 8068 Published 2002-10-25 15:54 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Infoworld reports that software maker Trustix this week formally unveiled a deal with IBM to jointly market and sell its secure Linux software in the U.S. on hardware from Big Blue.

"Trustix has developed a version of the Linux operating system it characterizes as a "hardened Red Hat Linux with the look and feel of Microsoft Windows," according to Wollan. In addition to an operating system, it sells a firewall server, proxy server, LAN server, Web server, and e-mail server. Each of those is based on freely available software such as Apache, Postfix, and Samba."

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It's Linux for IBM supercomputer project

General 8068 Published 2002-10-25 14:20 by Philipp Esselbach 0

CNET News reports that Linux will be the main operating system for IBM's upcoming family of "Blue Gene" supercomputers

"The decision to adopt Linux came, in part, as a result of the growing size and strength of the open-source community. Thousands of developers around the world are participating in the evolution of Linux. Creating a new OS inside of IBM would require a massive engineering effort."

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IBM talks about EVMS

General 8068 Published 2002-10-23 19:40 by Philipp Esselbach 0

I saw over at www.gentoo.org that IBM has an article about using EVMS to manage multiple file system types and configurations in a single GTK+ based GUI application. Check it out here.

Features for Linux 3.0 Kernel Nearly Set

General 8068 Published 2002-10-22 23:04 by Philipp Esselbach 0

eWeek has posted a news story on Kernel 3.0

"The feature set for the Linux 3.0 kernel, the next major update to the open source operating system, is close to being finalized and contributors are being told to submit their patches to the list of candidates as soon as possible."

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Crash test penguin? Chrysler meets Linux

General 8068 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 8068 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 8068 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 8068 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 8068 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 8068 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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