Linux News for Jun 23, 1999

• VARBusiness: Linux Nudges Into Storage (Jun 23, 1999, 23:58)
  "No longer a hacker's OS, Linux is the latest request from VARs and vendors."


• The Register: Linux alliance fights against Euro software patents (Jun 23, 1999, 21:25)
  "The subject is due to come up on Thursday at the Intellectual Property Conference in Paris, where moving to a US-style patent model will be discussed."


• Kernel Traffic #24 Is Out (Jun 23, 1999, 21:16)
  


• Mercury Center/Reuters: Linux start-ups could fuel new IPO craze (Jun 23, 1999, 21:06)
  "Linux, the renegade version of the Unix operating system -- given away over the Internet and maintained by a group of far-flung programmers -- has such a following that its creator Torvalds is as idolized as some rock stars. Now, some Linux start-up firms hope the growing Linux momentum will translate into capital and investors will line up to buy their stock."


• CNET News.com: Dell considers Unix, Linux options (Jun 23, 1999, 16:31)
  "Dell Computer could take a big step toward Unix and away from Microsoft's back-end operating system when Intel's 64-bit processors arrive next year..."


• Open Source XML Application Server Beta Released (Jun 23, 1999, 15:59)
  Planet 7 Technologies today announced the Beta Release of their XML Application Server for Java on Linux and Windows NT.


• Linus Torvalds State of Linux Report At USENIX (Jun 23, 1999, 15:54)
  At the USENIX conference last week Linus gave an informal report on the current state of Linux development to hundreds of programmers.


• ZDNet: Jesse Berst -- Why Windows 2000 Is Already A Failure (Jun 23, 1999, 15:51)
  "In public, Microsoft trumpets the new Windows 2000 as an amazing achievement. In private, it treats it like a failure."


• Linux Orbit covers "FUD Storm 1999, the summer of FUD" (Jun 23, 1999, 15:47)
  "... the Linux community can expect wave after stormy wave of spin, FUD and backpedaling from the wizards of Redmond."


• Fairfax IT: An open mind on open source (Jun 23, 1999, 15:25)
  "SIX years ago the company I work with decided that opensource operating systems were a good bet."


• Linux Kernel 2.3.8 released (Jun 23, 1999, 15:17)
  "... acts a lot more stable and pretty much finishes up the cleanup issues." -- Linus Torvalds


• UpsideToday: TurboLinux Plants Flag in RedHat Country (Jun 23, 1999, 15:05)
  "Why would IBM choose this relatively little-known distribution over more obvious candidates like Red Hat..."


• PRNewswire: The Industry Standard Officially Inaugurates The NET 21 Honors (Jun 23, 1999, 14:55)
  "Newsmagazine Editors Publish Choices for the 21 Most Influential People in the Internet Economy."


• BW: Sandstorm Enterprises Introduces TCP.demux, a TCP/IP Session Reassembler (Jun 23, 1999, 14:41)
  "... designed to make network monitors, such as "tcpdump", "snoop", and "Sniffer Basic" more useful."


• IDG/Linus Torvalds $25,000 Community Award (Jun 23, 1999, 14:24)
  An open call to high school and college students everywhere!


• BW: VServers Announces Addition of VServer RAQ2 to Web Hosting Services (Jun 23, 1999, 14:07)
  "The Cobalt RaQ 2 comes pre-configured with the Apache Web server, and provides tools that allow Perl scripting..."


• PRNewswire: Open Source Forum Attracting IT Executives from Leading Companies (Jun 23, 1999, 14:02)
  "... executives from Ford Motor Company, FedEx, Southwest Airlines, Bell South, AT&T, Bank of America, Intel, IBM, Sprint, JComputer, Xerox Corp., Novartis, Riverton Motor Co., Frontier Communications, TX Dept. of Transportation, University of Nebraska, and more will be in attendance."


• Linux Resources: Into the Belly of the Beast (Jun 23, 1999, 13:36)
  "Eric S. Raymond was the invited guest of Microsoft... and lives to tell about it."


• IT-Director: Linux goes thin with Hard Hat (Jun 23, 1999, 13:24)
  "Despite the fact that the Linux licensing model ought to be very attractive to the 'thin device' industry, there has not yet been a major Linux initiative in this area. There is now, as Solectron teams up with MontaVista Software..."


• Reuters: Judge compares Microsoft to Wal-Mart in trial (Jun 23, 1999, 13:24)
  "Schmalensee... said the Linux operating system was attracting capital and writers."


• ZDNet UK: PC Expo: What'll kill the PC and runs on Linux/BeOS? (Jun 23, 1999, 12:52)
  "There's a new PC killer at this week's PC Expo in New York. It's called the iToaster, from a small computer manufacturer named Microworkz."


• UPDATED: Information Week: The Lessons Of MP3 (Jun 23, 1999, 12:16)
  "Internet technology and open-source software are like forces of nature--they can't be controlled, but they can be used as a power source to drive business."


• UPDATED: Infoworld Circulating Petition to Halt UCITA (Jun 23, 1999, 12:07)
  "... the recent attempt by Microsoft and other software companies to reform the US Uniform Commercial Code."


• InfoWorld: If you're going to help us stop UCITA, you must act now (Jun 23, 1999, 12:07)
  "... our e-mail petition opposing the immediate enactment of the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) garnered more than 1,000 virtual signatures in its first week. They're still coming in..."


• Microsoft.com: Industry Benchmarks Show Windows NT Server 4.0 Outperforms Linux (Jun 23, 1999, 10:58)
  "Microsoft has received many questions about how Windows NT Server 4.0 meets customer performance requirements when compared with Linux. This paper addresses these inquiries..."


• BW: Red Hat Expands Professional Support Services for Corporate Linux Users (Jun 23, 1999, 10:45)
  "Developed and offered through its relationship with Collective Technologies (Austin, TX)..."


• LinuxMall: The Cathedral and the Bizarre, Pt. 2 (Jun 23, 1999, 10:36)
  Eric Raymond talks about his recent visit to Microsoft.


• Internet Week: Open-Source Politics, And Just What Is GNU? (Jun 23, 1999, 01:57)
  Stallman... poured kerosene on a raging flame war in the Linux developer community by insisting that finished Linux systems should be referred to as "GNU/Linux"..."


• Red Hat Security Advisory: Update to PHP 3.0.9 (mod_php3) (Jun 23, 1999, 01:34)
  "Red Hat Linux 6.0 shipped with PHP 3.0.7. This release of PHP had some problems with glibc 2.1."


• Red Hat Security Advisory: KDE update for Red Hat Linux 6.0 (Jun 23, 1999, 01:28)
  "Several security holes have been closed, and other bugs noted in the original RPMs have been corrected."


• Corel's Contributions to the Wine Project (Jun 23, 1999, 00:20)
  Wine is an open source implementation of the Microsoft® Windows® 95/Microsoft Windows NT® application programming interfaces (API) that runs on X Windows and Linux®. Corel dedicated a team of paid engineers to the Wine project in January 1999.