Infrastructure Linux News for Aug 29, 2000

• LinuxPR: VA Linux Systems Announces Powerful 4U Server for Databases (Aug 29, 2000, 20:57)
  "The VA Linux 4450 is powered by four Intel Pentium III Xeon processors at 700 MHz and is designed specifically to serve as a robust database platform for enterprise databases such as Oracle8i."


• Signal Ground: Book Review: Running Linux (Aug 29, 2000, 20:44)
  "When I decided it was time to get a deeper understanding of Linux, I wanted something useful that wasn't going to become another paperweight."


• Freshmeat: Six Reasons Not to Use an ASP (Aug 29, 2000, 20:43)
  "As with the current dot.com madness, there are some important but too often overlooked issues with using ASP-based applications. Here I provide six reasons why users might choose to remain with the more traditional, locally-running application..."


• LinuxWorld: Sendmail comes of age (Aug 29, 2000, 20:07)
  "...despite its long history of consistent open source support, one thing continued to haunt it: its difficult configuration. ... The configuration of Sendmail Multi Switch is very simple."


• LinuxWorld: Installing Australia - Attendance exceeded expectations (Aug 29, 2000, 19:31)
  "The Linux community in Southern Australia welcomes a few hundred more users into the fold at the Adelaide Install Fest 2000."


• eWeek: Life, liberty and the pursuit of free DVDs (Aug 29, 2000, 19:26)
  "Good try, Electronic Freedom Foundation! Your lawyers, who represent 2600, have convinced a growing segment of the public that source code is indeed speech and that viruses, vulnerability exploits and copyright hacks are protected by the Bill of Rights."


• AllLinuxDevices: Embedded Debian Project Announces Kernel/OS Build Tool (Aug 29, 2000, 19:20)
  "CML2+OS is being designed to assist embedded Linux developers in configuring and generating small (1 to 10MB) Linux target systems."


• EFF Update: LiVid Leader Challenges California's Jurisdiction Over Him (Aug 29, 2000, 18:53)
  "Judge William Elfving will hear oral argument over LiVid Project leader Matthew Pavlovich's motion to quash the California court's jurisdiction over him because he lives in Texas and has no contacts with California."


• BeNews: Exclusive Preview: QNX RtP (Aug 29, 2000, 18:19)
  "Since QNX RtP will be free for personal use in the very near future, this BeNews preview will see how QNX RtP compares to BeOS and to free Linux systems."


• The Last "Atlanta Linux Showcase"? Not Really (Aug 29, 2000, 17:36)
  "The new 'official' name of the showcase is the 'Annual Linux Showcase and Conference,' due to the fact that the showcase will be traveling to a new city each year. Next year, ALS will be in Oakland, CA. A definite schedule, however, has not been set for the years following 2001.
  


• AllLinuxDevices: American Megatrends Inc. Brings Indium Server Appliance to Market (Aug 29, 2000, 17:25)
  "The Indium's compact size allows integration into a half-height 5.25 inch drive bay, much like a CD-ROM drive, or multiple Indium boards can fit in a 1U rack mount chassis."


• DevX.com: StarOffice Chief [Marco Boerries] Offers Insights on Going Open Source (Aug 29, 2000, 17:24)
  "Is there much interest now among developers to start working on improving and extending StarOffice through OpenOffice.org? ...there are over 100 people who have already introduced themselves on the mailing list... I didn't expect that until the source code was out."


• LinuxPR: Sun Releases Globalization Technology to Open Source Community (Aug 29, 2000, 17:11)
  "Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced it will release the source code for the internationalization technologies for the Solaris Operating Environment to X.org..."


• LinuxPR: Penguin Computing Announces Expert on SAP Named Director of Info. Tech. (Aug 29, 2000, 17:09)
  "Penguin Computing Inc., leading provider of reliable Linux systems for Internet serving, today announced that Gareth M. de Bruyn, an expert in business processes, has joined the company as director of information technology."


• LinuxPR: Penguin Computing and Bramasol Announce a Milestone For Linux in Enterprise (Aug 29, 2000, 17:05)
  "mySAP.com provides an open collaborative business environment of personalized solutions on demand. This enables companies of all sizes and industries to fully engage their employees, customers and partners to capitalize upon the new Internet economy."


• LinuxPR: Penguin Computing Unveils New Web Site Fully Integrated Into IT Infrastructure (Aug 29, 2000, 17:03)
  "The site, tightly integrated with the company's IT infrastructure, features RAPTOR, a sophisticated configure-to-order system that makes it easy to customize servers and workstations online."


• The Register: Sony backtracks from anti-Napster spiel (Aug 29, 2000, 14:54)
  "Sony appears to be distancing itself from anti-Napster comments made by one of its senior US executives last week. ...Sony Music Entertainment, which operates alongside but independently of Sony Pictures, is now apparently claiming Heckler's words were taken out of context and the U-Wire story was wrong."


• The Register: Java is skill in most demand in UK, Windows down (Aug 29, 2000, 14:38)
  "You might well have thought that Unix was in decline as well, and Windows rising - but that's not what the survey shows. Unix is in fourth place."


• SJ Mercury: Digital Copyright Act comes back to haunt consumers (Aug 29, 2000, 14:18)
  "Kaplan's ruling in the New York case was sweeping and deeply troubling for anyone who cares about fair use and, ultimately, the First Amendment. ... He seemed to acknowledge the radically anti-free speech nature of his banning of hyperlinks in this matter, but then went ahead and did it anyway."


• osOpinion: Open Source Software in a Different Light (Aug 29, 2000, 11:44)
  "Put another way, can conventional thinking provide the distinctions necessary for commerce to thrive under Open Source or will people merely adapt to the existing belief system which originally excludes Open Source?"


• osOpinion: Rethinking Linux: Rally under a new Banner! (Aug 29, 2000, 11:26)
  "The point I'm trying to emphasize here is Linux doesn't have enough "expert programmers" needed to vaunt it in big time."


• osOpinion: They're Coming For Your Brain Next (Aug 29, 2000, 11:15)
  "Back in the bad old days -- the Dark Ages -- it was common for authorities to restrict the spread of information. The powers in control of the society of that time were typically based on religious belief and the claim of God-given authority."


• BW: New Attendance Record At San Jose LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Sets Stage for New York... (Aug 29, 2000, 00:56)
  "More than 20,000 attendees and 200 exhibitors turned out for the show's return to the San Jose Convention Center. Sold out for months, the scarcity of exhibit space forced IDG World Expo to turn away more than 60 interested exhibiting companies."


• BW: Akopia Oracle and Red Hat Join Forces for Successful Web Cast to Linux End Users (Aug 29, 2000, 00:42)
  "The event was created to provide information to Red Hat Linux customers about the latest innovations in software applications and support."


• BW: GraphOn CEO... to Address ASP Channel Conference on Benefits of Web-Enabling Applications... (Aug 29, 2000, 00:38)
  "Walt Keller, CEO and President of GraphOn Corporation... developers of Bridges web-enabling software for Windows, UNIX, and Linux applications, will speak about "Webification: The Easy Way to Software Distribution" at the ASP Channel Conference in South San Francisco today."


• BW: Red Hat Announces Roll-Out of First Courses in E-learning Curriculum (Aug 29, 2000, 00:24)
  "The e-Learning courses now available at Red Hat e-learning Central include C, C++ Programming, Java Programming, Object Programming, and Perl Programming. These new courses build prerequisite skills for Red Hat's Developer courses, as well as for e-commerce and advanced Web server administration."


• BW: Essentus Adds Linux Support to Supply Chain Solutions... (Aug 29, 2000, 00:16)
  "Essentus has tested all of its modules (Sourcing, Demand Management and Merchandising) on the award-winning Red Hat Linux 6.2..."


• BW: Broadband Access Systems, Inc. Adopts Linux for Cuda 12000 IP Access Switch... (Aug 29, 2000, 00:11)
  "Linux provides Broadband Access with a high-performance, open operating environment that provides additional remote access capabilities and built-in reliability. This adoption of Linux will reside in the management module of the Cuda 12000 chassis and augment the existing real-time operating system."