HP stresses Linux backing

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Infoworld has posted two Linux related news stories from the OracleWorld

HP stresses Linux backing
Not to be outdone by other major vendors that have hopped on the Linux bandwagon such as Oracle, IBM, and Sun Microsystems, a Hewlett-Packard official during the OracleWorld show on Thursday stressed that HP has been backing the open-source platform.
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Is commercial Unix odd man out?
Two Oracle officials at the OracleWorld conference here on Wednesday, Jamshed Patel, senior manager in the Oracle Linux Program Office, and Andrew Mendelsohn, senior vice president of database and application server technologies, acknowledged the intentions of the company to run its entire business on Linux.
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Metrowerks Set To Acquire Lineo

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eWeek send words that Embedded systems software development tools vendor Metrowerks Inc. is about to acquire Lineo, an embedded Linux company

Germany likes Linux

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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

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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

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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.

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Secure Linux maker teams with IBM in U.S.

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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

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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

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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

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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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