Infrastructure Linux News for Nov 16, 1999

• LinuxPR: VXE - new tool for Internet servers protection (Nov 16, 1999, 22:15)
  "VXE protects host and particular subsystems, which work as superuser and can have bugs."


• Electronic Buyers News: Linux creator offers sneak peak into goal of microprocessor startup (Nov 16, 1999, 21:57)
  "Linux operating system creator Linus Torvalds offered further details of his chip startup, Transmeta, during a Comdex keynote here in Las Vegas, some of which were disclosed on the company's web site in a hidden message."


• ServerWatch: Red Hat Looks to Net Devices (Nov 16, 1999, 21:52)
  "Red Hat said the deal will broaden its expertise to include embedded systems and handhelds. Cygnus' products include eCos, or Embedded Cygnus Operating System, a royalty-free operating system targeting embedded systems."


• Linuxcare: Dear Lina: Leaping Logfiles! (Nov 16, 1999, 20:43)
  "I recently noticed my disk is almost out of space. It's not like I'm doing anything fancy with it (I have another machine where I have a big MP3 collection, I would have expected it there). I looked around and /var/log is full of these huge files."


• ComputerWorld: Compaq creates division for iPaq, may shun Wintel with Internet PCs (Nov 16, 1999, 20:32)
  "...new division will develop the stripped-down iPaq class of desktop computers unveiled recently, as well as Internet appliances like wireless handheld computers. ... Compaq is considering alternatives to using... Microsoft Corp.'s Windows software to power those devices."


• CRN: Interview: Robert Young - Red Hat Inc. (Nov 16, 1999, 20:13)
  "We don't treat open source software as manna from heaven, [as if we somehow just download] a Linux operating system and put it on CD, then sell it and get a wonderful capitalization out of it."


• Tonight On the Linux Show!! Its Transmeta Fever! (Nov 16, 1999, 19:53)
  "Kevin, Arne, Jeff, PJ and Doc Searls (of the Linux Journal live from Comdex) have a great show."


• CRN: More Vendors Investing Resources -- Linux moving into spotlight (Nov 16, 1999, 19:47)
  "IBM Corp., Armonk, N.Y., Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, Calif., and Compaq Computer Corp., Houston, have committed to optimizing various server platforms for Linux."


• CRN: New IBM Servers Target ISPs, ASPs (Nov 16, 1999, 19:35)
  "One of the major trends we're seeing is the hype-and IBM is still trying to see its importance-of Linux on Intel servers."


• CRN: E-commerce, Linux and the long-awaited Windows 2000 should highlight the year ahead (Nov 16, 1999, 19:27)
  "2000 also should be a make-or-break year for Linux. Will the open-source-code software rise to challenge the lock Windows has on the market, or will it be relegated to niche-solution status?"


• CRN: New technology spells opportunity - E-commerce and Linux find...small and midsize customers (Nov 16, 1999, 19:15)
  "Linux hit the operating-system market like a cold slap in the face."


• EE Times: Handhelds, downsized PCs, smart phones converge on Comdex - Info appliances go prime time (Nov 16, 1999, 19:05)
  "Meanwhile, hardware makers appear to be hedging their bets, eyeing the Linux OS as a potential way to break their enforced marriage to Microsoft."


• EE Times: Unlock Windows (Nov 16, 1999, 18:59)
  "Start by making Windows an open-source-code operating system. Linux has shown that the model works and that it leverages the innovation of the entire design community. To ensure compatibility and orderly innovation, however, the government should set up a testing agency responsible for certifying annual upgrades and extensions of the Windows OS."


• Internet Week: How We Tested The Linux Servers (Nov 16, 1999, 18:40)
  "Aside from Corel's beta offering, all our competitors were evaluated solely on final shipping versions. Though our review was concentrated on the Linux as a server operating system, we decided to also install each distribution as a workstation client to see which environment was the better fit."


• Internet Week: Low-Cost Unix from a Hardware Perspective (Nov 16, 1999, 18:35)
  "VA Research has taken the headaches out of Linux installation and has built a server system that can truly compete for rack space in corporate data centers."


• CNET News.com: Intel adds to Linux investments with eSoft (Nov 16, 1999, 18:29)
  "The investments mark the continuing strategy of Intel in incubating Linux as one of the operating systems that runs on Intel chips."


• Internet Week: Red Hat Still King of the Linux Server Hill (Nov 16, 1999, 18:25)
  "Having two Linux distributions win InternetWeek Approved status says a great deal about the current state of Linux."


• Internet Week: Web App Servers -- No Time To Wait (Nov 16, 1999, 18:16)
  "Last month, Sun announced it had acquired Forte Software Inc. and NetBeans Inc. to round out its Internet-based e-business products and services. Forte was a leading provider of tools to build distributed applications. NetBeans, based in the Czech Republic, provided Java technology for Linux operating systems."


• TechWeb: The Appliance Buzz (Nov 16, 1999, 18:11)
  "One of the hottest technology buzzes at Comdex Fall '99 is cutting across a wide path of industries and companies as varied as Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, and Red Hat Software."


• LINUX TODAY RADIO -- DAY TWO COMDEX '99 NOW LIVE (Nov 16, 1999, 18:02)
  Today's live programming begins at 18:00 UTC (10:00AM PST).


• PRNewswire: eSoft Receives Intel Investment (Nov 16, 1999, 17:19)
  "We are confident this support will enable eSoft to accelerate our future research, development and business expansion activities."


• LinuxSlides: Educational website gets bowel-lift, enters second beta (Nov 16, 1999, 16:58)
  "...an index to Linux and Open Source presentations material (usually, as slides, hence the name) submited by their authors or third parties and classified by topic and language (we've got currently entries in english, french, spanish, danish and japanese)."


• Open Source Writers Group: document updates and additions (Nov 16, 1999, 16:44)
  "The Open Source Writers Group...has been busy in recent weeks, and is pleased to announce that a number of documents have been added to and updated in its documentation set."


• LinuxPR: Team FXML Announces Release of ODBC Socket Server (Nov 16, 1999, 16:40)
  "Released under the Gnu Public License (GPL), ODBC Socket Server finally delivers a solid, well-documented Windows data access toolkit for all TCP/IP capable operating systems."


• SJ Mercury: Red Hat is acquiring Cygnus (Nov 16, 1999, 16:31)
  "Cygnus, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., makes development tools that enable software to mesh with Linux, an increasingly popular platform for running the powerful computer servers that companies use for e-commerce, Web sites, internal networks and databases."


• TechWeb: Torvalds: At Last, People "Get" Open Source (Nov 16, 1999, 16:08)
  "Over time, as open source has been commercialized," Torvalds said, "open source still flourished, because it is also about bring the users and programmers closer together."


• BW: SCO and TurboLinux Announce Availability of Professional Services Offerings for TurboCluster... (Nov 16, 1999, 15:32)
  "The two service packages, "TurboCluster Audit" and "TurboCluster Start-Up," are designed to help TurboLinux's customers and resellers get started with planning, installing, configuring and deploying their new TurboCluster systems."


• PRNewswire: eToast and Other Topics Served Up at Embedded Systems Conference Spring (Nov 16, 1999, 15:27)
  "Courses covering Linux and GNU development environments are among three new classes whose addition reflects the growing popularity of open source software tools for embedded systems."


• PRNewswire: American Power Conversion is First Computer...Company to Receive Red Hat Ready Logo (Nov 16, 1999, 15:23)
  "This announcement continues APC's comprehensive support for Linux users by helping to increase system availability through reliable power protection and management solutions."


• BW: Red Hat Ready Certification Program Ensures Linux Compatibility for Top Enterprise Users... (Nov 16, 1999, 15:17)
  "The Red Hat Ready certification program uses a rigorous, thorough testing methodology from a trusted authority in open source solutions that assures enterprise users that their hardware choices are compatible with the Red Hat Linux OS."


• LinuxPR: Antarctica IT And Caldera Team Up (Nov 16, 1999, 08:07)
  "Antarctica IT, Inc. and Caldera Systems, Inc. will work together to provide Linux services in Boston and New England."


• osOpinion: The Microsoft Monopoly: You're ALL wrong (Nov 16, 1999, 08:02)
  "A challenge to our software industry pipe-dream."


• osOpinion: The New Face of Instant Messaging (Nov 16, 1999, 07:54)
  "Enter Jabber. Jabber is a completely open source, cross platform, feature rich, developer friendly, standards compliant IM platform."


• osOpinion: Kicking The Habit (Nov 16, 1999, 07:50)
  "Wowser it's tough getting the MS monkey off my back. I've tried the 12 step programs, the patch, and the gum. I've also tried various Linux distributions. Nothing seems to work."


• osOpinion: Microsoft and FSF, that should not be a war! (Nov 16, 1999, 07:43)
  "For a lot of people involved with free Software and Linux this is becoming a war of sorts, and that is wrong. I can agree that, after the Halloween documents were made public and so on, the feeling that Microsoft is making itself a war against FSF is really strong, but it should not be a problem for us. Let MS boil."


• The Nation: Microsoft's Fatal Error (Nov 16, 1999, 07:23)
  "To make Linux a full competitor with Windows would require small changes in Microsoft's rules for dispensing information about how others' programs use the Windows APIs. If those and similar legal and technical obstacles are removed, Linux-based systems would be able to run all programs written for Windows computers."


• LinuxPR: Do you want to get your Linux newsletter? (Nov 16, 1999, 02:34)
  "Look2Find Linux News is still seeking writers for their Linux e-newsletter that is scheduled to launch in January 2000."


• NEOLUG: Linux @ Cedar Point -- A different Linux Event (Nov 16, 1999, 02:31)
  "The only conference that pairs up the best amusement park and the best operating system for 2 days of fun and learning."


• Linux Journal: Red Hat Names New CEO, Acquires Cygnus (Nov 16, 1999, 02:09)
  "Red Hat's acquisition of Cygnus Solutions also confirms Red Hat's intention to compete in the embedded systems marketplace, in which Caldera Systems (among Linux companies) has staked a major claim.


• Linux.com: Buddying up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping (Nov 16, 1999, 01:49)
  "I realized that the BSD community looked at me in the same way the Linux community has looked at Windows journalists that have reviewed Linux. These flames gave me the rare opportunity to experience a little bit of how these journalists must have felt."


• LWN: Red Hat acquires Cygnus (Nov 16, 1999, 01:34)
  "LWN talked briefly today with Red Hat's Donnie Barnes...about the announced acquisition of Cygnus Solutions. Now that the deal has actually been signed, they are able to talk about it."


• SRO: SuSE Comes Up Sevens With New OS Version (Nov 16, 1999, 01:21)
  "Your customers who want everything and the kitchen sink in open-source software also will be pleased with the remarkable fullness of this package's included software. How much is there?"


• PC Week: Red Hat's Young sees no need to 'reinvent the PC' (Nov 16, 1999, 01:08)
  "Less than a day after Microsoft Corp. CEO Bill Gates touted the robust future of the PC, Red Hat Inc. Chairman Bob Young announced the platform's death in a Comdex keynote address here Monday."


• LinuxPR: Caldera Systems Acquires New Teaching Tool For Linux (Nov 16, 1999, 00:42)
  "Caldera Systems Acquires New Teaching Tool For Linux."