Infrastructure Linux News for Jun 27, 2000

• PRNewswire: FacetCorp Releases FacetTerm for Linux; Also Upgrades FacetWin Linux Support (Jun 27, 2000, 22:03)
  "FacetTerm Version 3 is now compatible with Red Hat Linux, Caldera OpenLinux, SuSE Linux, and TurboLinux. This release of FacetTerm is also supported on all other versions of Linux with the "glibc" version 2 runtime libraries."


• PRNewswire: Lineo Announces Support for ARM Cores (Jun 27, 2000, 22:01)
  "Because the industry is migrating to system-on-chip based designs, which are high volume and low cost, ARM is a strategic processor family for us to support."


• PRNewswire: Lineo Announces High Availability Clustering Solutions For Mission Critical Deployments (Jun 27, 2000, 21:58)
  "Lineo High Availability Solutions and the Embedix line of products span the entire spectrum of embedded systems, from high availability solutions, Internet applications, hand held devices, microcontrollers and industrial solutions."


• BW: Caldera Announces OpenLinux Power Solutions Tour 2000 (Jun 27, 2000, 21:55)
  "This 12-city tour provides cost-free demonstrations in Internet and eBusiness-ready Linux solutions."


• PRNewswire: Lineo Provides Compatibility Libraries for Legacy Real Time Operating System Code (Jun 27, 2000, 21:52)
  "Code-named "Golden Gate," these compatibility libraries provide OEMs with a way to recompile applications developed on these platforms to run on Embedix Linux, Lineo's embedded software."


• PRNewswire: Lineo Announces Web Site for Open Source Contributions (Jun 27, 2000, 21:50)
  "We work very hard to support and fund projects that are a benefit to the community at large and not just to increase the bottom line of Lineo. We will continue this pattern of giving back to the open source community."


• PRNewswire: Lineo Expands Partner Connect Program (Jun 27, 2000, 21:47)
  "The goal of the Lineo Partner Connect Program is to provide seamlessly integrated solutions to embedded developers in order to shorten their development cycles and reduce the costs of the embedded devices."


• BW: Iomega Corporation Chooses Red Hat to Develop Linux-Based IomegaWare Solutions (Jun 27, 2000, 21:38)
  "Users can test a pre-release version of the Linux platform driver software and submit comments and questions to Iomega."


• LinuxPR: Hard Hat Journeyman Edition First Embedded Linux With Mass Distribution (Jun 27, 2000, 21:34)
  "EDN Magazine Distributes 138,000 Copies of MontaVista Software Embedded Linux Tool Kit With June 2000 Issue."


• BW: Red Hat First Linux Solution Provider to Join Intel Server Applications Program (Jun 27, 2000, 21:31)
  "As part of the program, Red Hat will help Intel develop a "cookbook" of pre-packaged Internet server application recipes optimized for Intel's Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs)."


• PRNewswire: Brooktrout Enables New Network Applications Under Linux (Jun 27, 2000, 21:26)
  "The Linux open source operating system allows developers to lop off the parts they don't want and use only those that they do. Linux' small footprint and affordability on Brooktrout's voice platforms will open new market segments for our unified messaging products."


• BW: Emulex Announces Availability of Industry's Most Complete Fibre Channel Linux Offering (Jun 27, 2000, 21:18)
  "The Emulex drivers, tested and approved for use with Caldera, RedHat and TurboLinux operating systems, provide a rich feature set required in enterprise environments, including support for multi-protocol operation and switched fabrics."


• Technocrat.net: Comment to U.S. FTC on Software Warranty Issues and UCITA (Jun 27, 2000, 20:14)
  "This is of interest to the free software community because proposed laws, including UCITA, actually require warranties on the software we give away, and this would be a great hardship to free software authors."


• LinuxMall.com: Linus to Attend LinuxWorld Expo In San Jose (Jun 27, 2000, 19:48)
  "The LinuxWorld Conference and Expo promises to showcase an array of products, services, lectures given by industry leaders, and--oh, yeah--some guy named Linus."


• Smart Partner: Only Two Linux Companies [Red Hat & Caldera] Really Matter (Jun 27, 2000, 19:40)
  "Like it or not, major hardware vendors and corporate America don't want to support five or more flavors of Linux."


• CNET News.com: Linux server maker [Rebel.com] to use Transmeta chips (Jun 27, 2000, 19:04)
  "Though AMD and Intel have unveiled power-saving techniques of their own... Rebel.com chose Crusoe because it's compatible with Intel chips and because its low power means it can work in a small box that doesn't require a fan for cooling."


• LinuxDevices.com: What do you value most about open source? (Jun 27, 2000, 18:09)
  "Contrary to popular notions of programmers hacking away at source code to create unique implementations of the Linux kernel and other open source software, there is a far greater propensity toward using source code for READING purposes, rather than for WRITING (or modifying)."


• LinuxPR: Now Available: Lutris Enhydra Professional 3.0 Java/XML Open Source Application Server (Jun 27, 2000, 17:35)
  


• LinuxPR: Participation More Than Doubles for the Open CASCADE Core Team (Jun 27, 2000, 17:27)
  "Many new projects around Open CASCADE are currently underway internationally, including work in topology, graphics and analysis."


• VNU Net: BT and the 'funny old world' of patents (Jun 27, 2000, 16:42)
  "Protection of property is not the only motivation for applicants. IBM makes an alleged $1bn a year out of royalties on patents that it owns. And Microsoft is using patents to ensnare the Linux developer community, rendered vulnerable through its refusal to patent its own work."


• LinuxNewbie.org: Adding a Hard drive in Linux -- In five steps (Jun 27, 2000, 16:24)
  "This NHF assumes that you have already physically installed your hard drive in your computer and configured it in your computer's bios."


• LinuxDev.net: GUI Python: All This and Good Looks Too? (Jun 27, 2000, 14:40)
  "Can I use Python for Web development?" "Can Python do serious programming?" "Is there anything Python can't do?". ...the answers to those three questions in 99% of the cases are "Yes, Yes and No"..."


• LinuxPR: Rebel.com to Adopt Transmeta's Crusoe Processor In Future NetWinder Products (Jun 27, 2000, 14:27)
  "...to utilize Transmeta's Crusoe processor family for a family of residential and small business gateway products..."


• PRNewswire: SteelEye Announces General Availability of LifeKeeper for Linux (Jun 27, 2000, 12:56)
  "SteelEye Technology Inc., an emerging leader in reliability platforms for Linux-based applications, announced today immediate general availability of its LifeKeeper for Linux 3.0. LifeKeeper is a commercially proven, automated high-availability clustering solution for Linux that ensures continuous availability of business and mission critical application and data as well as 24 x 7 system uptime."


• CCN: Perle Systems Partners With SuSE To Give Linux Users Drivers For High-Speed Serial (Jun 27, 2000, 12:38)
  "Perle Systems, a leading provider of networking products for IP and e-business access, announced today that Linux operating systems developer, SuSE Linux AG, has included drivers for its complete range of Specialix and Chase muilt-port serial cards in its latest release."


• PRNewswire: Top Tier OEMs to Demo Transmeta's Crusoe in Ultralight Notebooks at PC Expo (Jun 27, 2000, 12:13)
  "Transmeta Corporation announced today that four PC manufacturers, Fujitsu, Hitachi, IBM and NEC, are showing technology demonstrations of ultralight notebooks based on the Crusoe processor in its booth at PC Expo this week."


• IW: Lynx Partners With ZF Linux Devices To Deliver BlueCat Linux With First Failsafe PC-On-A-Chip (Jun 27, 2000, 12:05)
  "Every MachZ Integrated Development System includes Red Hat Linux 6.2 and LynuxWorks BlueCat Linux and the LynuxWorks development tools for creating compact custom Linux embedded applications. OEMs no longer have to pay costly license fees or go through the expensive and time-consuming requirement of porting third party software and searching for unique peripheral drivers."


• IW: Crash-Immune Network Devices For The Small Office / Home Office Introduced By ZF Linux Devices (Jun 27, 2000, 11:57)
  ZF Linux Devices, Inc., today announced their family of products providing low cost, distributed network solutions for the Small Office / Home Office (SOHO), education and developing economy markets."


• LinuxPR: ZipSpeak 7.1-1 Makes Linux Easier for the Visually Impaired (Jun 27, 2000, 11:01)
  "Matthew Campbell today released ZipSpeak 7.1-1, a talking mini-distribution of Linux for visually impaired people. The newly released version of ZipSpeak adds support for several speech synthesizers, simplifies Speakup customization, makes Web browsing easier, and adds support for international keyboard layouts."


• First Test Release of Embedded Debian Cross Development Environments (Jun 27, 2000, 09:14)
  "Debian Project is to make Debian GNU/Linux a natural choice for embedded Linux and to advance the embedded Linux state of the art faster and more effectively."


• Wired: RIAA: No Hyperlinking Allowed (Jun 27, 2000, 07:53)
  "If this kind of automated hyperlinking is ruled illegal, the Internet is going to grind to a halt," said Ira Rothken, legal counsel for MP3Board.com."


• Linux Journal: An Interview with Bjorn Ekwall [Kernel Developer] (Jun 27, 2000, 07:41)
  "I already owned my own commercially based UNIX system (System/V.3 on a Motorola 68k VME), so I definitely wanted to network my new Linux machine with it."


• Linux Journal: Linux's Tell-Tale Heart, Part 1 (Jun 27, 2000, 07:37)
  "Whether you know it or not, your Linux system is constantly talking to you in a kind of system monologue, or diary, keeping you abreast of everything in its life. All you need to do is pay attention."


• FreeBSD Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-00:23.ip-options (Jun 27, 2000, 07:21)
  "There are several bugs in the processing of IP options in the FreeBSD IP stack, which fail to correctly bounds-check arguments and contain other coding errors leading to the possibility of data corruption and a kernel panic upon reception of certain invalid IP packets."


• osOpinion: Should we be learning Linux? (Jun 27, 2000, 05:52)
  "Still upset about Microsoft retiring my cert to cash in on the next wave of new certifications, I too accompanied all the administrators in my department, with torches in hand, and stormed off to the local software store to purchase ourselves some Linux."


• Philippine Inquirer: Philippine firms testing Linux Waters (Jun 27, 2000, 05:32)
  "In the case of the Philippines, though no data could rate its wide following in the local market, Linux is already considered one of the fastest growing platforms for the back-end side."


• Philippine Inquirer: Is it Time for Linux? (Jun 27, 2000, 03:29)
  "For instance, just last week IBM Philippines launched in the country its Linux port for the S/390 transaction server."


• Utah Uprising: Novell's Noorda Took On Microsoft Early (Jun 27, 2000, 03:06)
  "Jim Barksdale, former CEO of Netscape, and Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems, are usually credited with leading the charge against Microsoft. But Noorda and Hatch used Capitol Hill and state courtrooms early on... opening the door for the U.S. Department of Justice to file its case..."


• LinuxHelp.net: New XMMS and K-JoFol Setup Guide (Jun 27, 2000, 02:37)
  "Xmms is an audio player for linux. For you windows jockeys, you might realize its similarities to the mp3 player WinAMP.It first started out as X11Amp but the organization separated and xmms is what became of it. Xmms takes up little resources and lets you use cool skins to add style to your desktop without bogging it down."


• LinuxWorld: A SPARC powerhouse (Jun 27, 2000, 02:20)
  "You may wonder why someone would run Linux on a SPARC rather than on an Intel-based machine that would have a larger selection of binary-compatible software. The simple answer is that many companies already have the hardware."


• Kernel Cousin SLUG Pearls #4 By Jeff Waugh (Jun 27, 2000, 01:40)
  


• CRN: Linux Leader [Jon Hall] Calls Porting Of Office And Quicken Critical (Jun 27, 2000, 01:36)
  "According to Hall, who was the opening speaker at a Linux seminar Monday... while desktop applications are starting to be ported to the Linux operating system, there are two key ones that are conspicuous by their absence: Microsoft Office and Quicken."