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Infrastructure Linux News for Feb 27, 2000
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Penguin Magazine: Help with RPM (Feb 27, 2000, 22:59)
"Redhat's package manager 'rpm' is a powerful tool for
installing, removing, and maintaining the software on you Linux
system, unfortunately for users new to the Linux / Unix world it
can also be quite confusing..."
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LinuxHelp.net: Using KPPP with ISPs in the UK (Feb 27, 2000, 21:41)
"The reason for this document is because a lot of ISP's do not
want you to connect to them using Linux (silly really), and it can
be frustrating if you don't know if they are using CHAP/PAP
etc."
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The Standard: 48 Hours of Tech Tourism in Germany (Feb 27, 2000, 21:21)
"...European companies need to brush up on their storytelling
skills... But ask anybody for the name of the leading Linux
company, and they're likely to point to Red Hat..."
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Linux Journal: Consumer Rankings (Feb 27, 2000, 20:10)
"How to use CGI programs to allow list subscribers to enter and
rank their favorite products or services."
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Linux Journal: Book Review -- Learning Debian GNU/Linux (Feb 27, 2000, 20:06)
"Like most O'Reilly books, Learning Debian GNU/Linux is
well-organized and well-written."
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Linux Journal: Taming the Horrors of Printers and Printing, Part 4 (Feb 27, 2000, 16:26)
"Choice is a hard thing to get used to, but once you do get the
hang of options, they become an addiction that's good for you and
good for the software industry as a whole."
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Ext2: Shell Scripting Part One (Feb 27, 2000, 15:41)
"In the DOS world, files such as this were known as "batch
files"; to Unix users, they are "shell scripts". Shell scripts can
be, and often are, much more complex than batch files."
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Penguin Magazine: Networking with X Windows (Feb 27, 2000, 15:34)
"One of the greatest features of "X windows" is its ability to
work seamlessly over a network. This allows users remote access to
a system with virtually no loss of functionality."
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Cork.Linux.ie: NIS & NFS tutorial. Unix login and home directory distribution. (Feb 27, 2000, 15:11)
"This document describes how to configure your Unix boxes to
authenticate off one server on your network and get the home
directories for users from a central location."
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Upside Today: New chip on the block (Feb 27, 2000, 04:08)
"David Ditzel is a big thinker. In 1995,... He had a big
thought... "So was born Transmeta..."
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BBC: The mobile internet race (Feb 27, 2000, 03:47)
"The main challenger of Microsoft, the Goliath, is called
Epoc... Phone.com, NetBSD and Linux are other potential
competitors."
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Linux Journal: Book Review -- UNIX Shells by Example (Feb 27, 2000, 03:23)
"Unix Shells by Example truly fulfills the claim made in the
title: over 630 examples are in the book, plus another 60 in the
first appendix. If you want to learn shell programming, this book
is a must-have."
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Linux Journal: Book Review --Linux System Administration (Feb 27, 2000, 03:23)
"Eric S. Raymond, writer of the book's Forward, says in a review
on its back cover, ``This book is a reference for the experienced
Linux administrators and a guide for new ones.'' I heartily agree
and recommend a thorough reading."
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PRNewswire: SGI and SuSE to Bring High-Availability Functionality to Linux (Feb 27, 2000, 03:23)
"I am happy to see SGI and SuSE cooperate to bring a Linux
version of IRIS FailSafe to Open Source,' said Linus
Torvalds..."
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Gregory Pomerantz: Business Models for Open Source Hardware Design (Feb 27, 2000, 01:11)
"The concept of open source hardware has the potential to solve
many of the problems currently facing the semiconductor
industry."
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