CNET News reports that Red Hat and Covalent Technologies are developing the Apache Web server for AMD's coming 64-bit Opteron processor
SuSE Linux, the SCO Group (formerly Caldera International), Conectiva and Turbolinux are all expected to launch on Tuesday the latest versions of their Linux enterprise distributions powered by the UnitedLinux core, according to industry sources late Thursday.
This will be the first time the four Linux distributions are based on the UnitedLinux core, and follows the May announcement by the vendors that they would standardize on a single Linux distribution for the enterprise. The move, they said, should streamline Linux development and certification
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This will be the first time the four Linux distributions are based on the UnitedLinux core, and follows the May announcement by the vendors that they would standardize on a single Linux distribution for the enterprise. The move, they said, should streamline Linux development and certification
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Infoworld has posted two Linux related news stories from the OracleWorld
HP stresses Linux backing
Is commercial Unix odd man out?
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.Read more
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.Read more
eWeek send words that Embedded systems software development tools vendor Metrowerks Inc. is about to acquire Lineo, an embedded Linux company
ZDNet has posted a Linux article: Why Linux is a desktop dud
CNET News has posted a news story on Red Hat
InfoWorld has posted a few Linux related news stories:
Oracle driving Linux convergence
Oracle driving Linux convergence
Vnunet has posted a news story on Dell and Linux
Saw over PCLinuxOnline:
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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
LinuxPlanet has posted a report from the Red Hat Road Tour 2002
Saw over SlashDot that MySQL AB has settled its dispute with NuSphere
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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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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CNET News reports that Wal-Mart expands their Linux offering with Lycoris Desktop/LX
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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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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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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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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"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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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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"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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