Linux News for Feb 29, 2000

• WideOpenNews.com: Linuxcare Discloses IPO Plans (Feb 29, 2000, 23:56)
  "If shares sell at $14 a piece, Linuxcare would boast a market capitalization of $422.8 million -- quite a bit bigger than Caldera Systems' expected initial market cap of $306 million but considerably smaller than Red Hat's $8.5 billion or VA Linux's $4.3 billion."


• GNOME Summary for February 21-29, 2000 (Feb 29, 2000, 23:43)
  GNOME is the GNU Network Object Model Environment. The GNOME project intends to build a complete, easy-to-use desktop environment for the user, and a powerful application framework for the software developer.


• sendmail.net: RFC 1777: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) (Feb 29, 2000, 23:41)
  "What does sendmail 8.10 have in common with Microsoft Outlook employee directories and the Yahoo interface on your cell phone? They all use - or at least can use - LDAP to access the huge directories of information they need."


• LinuxPR: MontaVista Software Embarks Upon Real-Time Characterization of Linux (Feb 29, 2000, 23:36)
  "Provides Test Results, Tools, for Developers Using 100% Linux in Embedded Real-Time Applications."


• TechWeb: IBM Will Ship PCs With 256-Bit Encryption (Feb 29, 2000, 23:34)
  "The machines will be available on March 10, making Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM among the first to make this technology widely available..."


• LinuxPR: Dave Warner Joins MontaVista as CFO (Feb 29, 2000, 23:34)
  "MontaVista Software Inc... delivers open-source software solutions for the worldwide embedded software market."


• Cole 3D: Storm Linux 2000 Review (Feb 29, 2000, 23:26)
  "Storm Linux has a pretty good install program. You can choose to install in either text or graphical mode."


• Live Tonight on The Linux(r) Show!!- are they taking our books away from us? (Feb 29, 2000, 23:12)
  "A follow up to last weeks discussion about red hat but focusing in on the isue of fragmentation. Is this really a big deal or is a certain amount of fragmentation good?"


• Linux Journal: Ericsson's Screen Phone Runs Linux (Feb 29, 2000, 22:58)
  "...Linux was chosen because of the open source operating system's stability and size, as well as for its 'openness', making it easier for a variety of future applications to be added."


• CNET News.com: VA Linux an example of stellar IPOs gone south (Feb 29, 2000, 22:47)
  "Despite the mix in results, analysts say Linux still resonates with investors. With the growth of e-commerce, the popularity of the upstart OS is expected to grow..."


• The Register: Bill's big deals go MIA - rolls out MSN Mobile 2 instead (Feb 29, 2000, 22:33)
  "So what happened? Did Bill's speech writers get over-excited and over-optimistic about what could be achieved before February 28th, or was it all spin, a deliberate leak intended to bounce a few telcos into a deal?"


• PRNewswire: Image Power releases Linux image viewer for FaxPC (Feb 29, 2000, 22:18)
  "In addition to supporting JBIG2, the image viewer will support a wide variety of file formats used in image transmission and storage, including the more popular formats BMP, EPS, G3, G4, and TIFF."


• BW: C-bridge Expands Course Offerings for C-bridge University (Feb 29, 2000, 22:13)
  "The new intensive 2-to 10-day workshops will cover such topics as... The use of Linux in e-business applications and corporate IT strategy."


• BW: Tripwire is First Major Security Company to Offer Open Source Linux Product (Feb 29, 2000, 22:09)
  "Tripwire Partners with Caldera Systems, Red Hat and SGI to Bring Integrity Assessment to Linux and Open Source Communities"


• PRNewswire: SCO's Tarantella Express Leaves the Station Right on Time (Feb 29, 2000, 22:05)
  "Additional versions are planned for other popular server operating systems, including leading Linux platforms."


• PRNewswire: Lineo Joins the Extend The Internet (ETI) Alliance (Feb 29, 2000, 21:58)
  Founded by emWare(R) Inc., provider of the EMIT device networking infrastructure, the ETI Alliance is comprised of 25 leading technology companies committed to extending the Internet to any device and accelerating the market for globally networked intelligent devices in homes, offices and factories."


• BW: Diversinet Extends Development Platform To Linux And Unix (Feb 29, 2000, 21:43)
  "Developers will now be able to create applications using Diversinet's Passport Certificate Server(TM) 3.0 for Linux/Unix, optimized for the wireless environment."


• LinuxPR: Orasoft Releases Version 1.0 of Oracle ObjectManager (Feb 29, 2000, 20:51)
  "ObjectManager enables database users to view, create, alter, and drop Oracle objects on Linux."


• China Embraces MP3s (Feb 29, 2000, 20:48)
  Houston InterWeb Design Tuesday formed a joint venture with the Chinese government and a Chinese investment company to build the first governmentally approved MP3 music site in China.


• PRNewswire: Computer I/O and MontaVista... Partner... Embedded Linux I/O Servers and Appliances (Feb 29, 2000, 20:47)
  "The joint effort will deliver a Linux-based real-time server platform designed for the unique needs of time-sensitive, high-bandwidth applications using streaming media such as multi-media, telecommunications and web servers."


• BW: Progress SonicMQ Adds Support for Linux (Feb 29, 2000, 20:37)
  "...the Developer Edition of its award-winning Progress(R) SonicMQ(TM) Internet messaging server will support the Linux operating system."


• BW: Vovida Networks Continues to Drive Open Source Telephony... with Free VoIP Protocol Stacks... (Feb 29, 2000, 20:31)
  "While originally developed on Linux(TM), the stacks are easily portable to Windows(TM), Solaris(TM), IRIX(TM) and other UNIX-like operating systems..."


• osOpinion: Linux/Be on a nonproprietary console (Feb 29, 2000, 20:27)
  "Imagine for a moment, an OS vendor such as Linux and/or Be OS introducing a console that could compete with the Playstation 2 and Dreamcast in hardware specification and price, but is nonproprietary."


• BW: Cyclone Makes B2B Internet Trading Community Development Easier and More Scalable (Feb 29, 2000, 20:26)
  "New Version of Cyclone Interchange Trading Engine Expands Platform Support to Linux and AS/400; Adds Partner Grouping Capabilities, Support for COM, MQSeries And DB2"


• PRNewswire: TimeSys Corporation Announces TimeSys Linux/RT, a Real-time Version of Linux (Feb 29, 2000, 20:22)
  " '...TimeSys Linux/RT actually extends the Linux kernel, rather than adding a proprietary non-Linux RTOS as an abstraction layer between Linux and the system hardware.'..."


• BW: Blast Integrated With Synchronics' Counterpoint V7.3 (Feb 29, 2000, 20:15)
  "CounterPoint V7.3... employs technology that gives users increased speed and reliability while operating in native 32-bit mode in both Windows and Unix/Linux environments."


• BW: Splash Technology... Color Servers for Canon Mid-Range Copiers... Use Splash-Linux Technology (Feb 29, 2000, 20:08)
  "The Splash T200 product line features a new Splash-Linux architecture based on Splash's advanced compression and color technologies, combined with the Linux operating system and standard Intel processors."


• LinuxPR: O'Reilly Releases Updated Motif Reference Manual (Feb 29, 2000, 20:07)
  The second edition of the "Motif Reference Manual" covers Motif 2.1, a robust release supported by the major workstation vendors..."


• O'Reilly -- Ask Tim: Open Source, Patents and O'Reilly (Feb 29, 2000, 20:03)
  "I completely agree with RMS that the Amazon 1-Click Patent is one more example of an "intellectual property" milieu gone mad."


• PRNewswire: IKON Creates Major Splash as Exclusive Distributor of New Color Document Server Line (Feb 29, 2000, 19:58)
  "Low-Cost, Robust, Linux-Based Splash Color Servers Exceed Functionality Standards for Entry-Level Servers in Office and Creative Environments"


• BW: GraphOn (GOJO) Ships Bridges for Windows 1.0 (Feb 29, 2000, 19:55)
  "Applications deployed through Bridges can be seamlessly integrated with the user's desktop and accessed through a tiny Java applet, Netscape plug-in, or native Windows and Linux clients."


• PRNewswire: Xin Net Corp. Announces Subscriber Base Reaches 100,000 (Feb 29, 2000, 19:46)
  "...has converted its existing e-Commerce platforms to the Linux operating system."


• BW: Blue Wave Systems Extends ComStruct Operating System Support to Include Linux (Feb 29, 2000, 19:42)
  "ComStruct CompactPCI and PCI DSP resource boards are now available with support for the fully proven and tested Linux solutions from both Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq:RHAT) and Caldera Systems, Inc."


• PRNewswire: Platform Computing Unveils 'Virtual Supercomputing' Technology... (Feb 29, 2000, 19:37)
  "LSF is the key enabling technology in some of the world's largest 'superclusters' ...supports everything from Linux to supercomputing operating systems, from inexpensive x86-based workstations to powerful Cray and NEC supercomputing platforms."


• PRNewswire: iChargeit, Inc. Launches `My Shopping Planet' Affiliate Revenue Program (Feb 29, 2000, 19:21)
  "www.shoppingplanet.com specializes in Computer hardware and software sales and specifically offers a $399 Linux PC Computer and a $499 Dual Boot Windows/Linux PC..."


• BW: I-Logix and MontaVista... to Provide First [Embedded Linux] Application Development Platform... (Feb 29, 2000, 19:15)
  "...I-Logix will support MontaVista's Hard Hat Linux embedded operating system as a target for code developed in its Rhapsody(TM) application development platform."


• BW: Level 8 Offers Message Queuing Software for Red Hat Linux... (Feb 29, 2000, 19:06)
  "...today announced the availability of Geneva XIPC for Linux, the first message-oriented middleware software product specifically designed for the Linux platform."


• BW: TurboLinux Powers Japan E-Commerce Web Site... 380 Stores... Hosting 3.3 Million Products (Feb 29, 2000, 18:52)
  " 'TurboLinux, IBM and Java have helped lower the total cost of creating CyberCity,' said Yoshitake Senoo, director of multimedia business at DEODEO."


• PRNewswire: EarthWeb's Dice.com Selected to Provide IT Job Listings on the Go2Net Network (Feb 29, 2000, 18:45)
  "...dice.com powers the job areas of fourteen other Web sites including RedHat.com, DevX.com, GirlGeeks.com, UserFriendly.org and two Linux related sites, 32BitsOnline and PenguinApps."


• osOpinion: UCITA : the Best Legislation Money Can Buy, Take Two (Feb 29, 2000, 18:29)
  "... if Big Software must have UCITA, let's amend it so the affected parties have no question of what is required of them."


• BW: EBIZ Enterprises Inc.'s Stock Symbol is Added to [LWN's] Tier 1 Linux Companies (Feb 29, 2000, 18:18)
  "The LWN Linux Stocks Page provides a summary of the state of trading in Linux(R)-related stocks. ... Tier 1, where EBIZ is listed, features companies whose primary business focus is Linux(R)..."


• Orasoft Releases Oracle ObjectManager 1.0 (Feb 29, 2000, 18:14)
  "This is significant because of the lack of client access software on the Linux platform..."


• BW: Unify Signs Significant Contract with Nortel Networks (Feb 29, 2000, 18:04)
  "A global leader in telephony, data, wireless and wireline solutions for the Internet, Nortel Networks will use Unify's application development software to develop a new generation of products that run on the Linux platform."


• BW: Plesk Inc. Launches New Web-based Tool to Simplify Server Management... Via Any Browser (Feb 29, 2000, 18:00)
  "Plesk Server Administrator v.1.2 is available for leading Unix/Linux based platforms, including Solaris, FreeBSD, Red Hat, BSDI, and Slackware."


• BW: Cogent Computers Standardizes On CodeGen's SmartFirmware... (Feb 29, 2000, 17:52)
  "CodeGen's open firmware approach offers developers a consistent environment at boot-up across platforms. CodeGen currently supports Mips, PowerPC, SPARC, x86 and ARM processors, as well as Solaris, BSD Unix and Linux operating systems."


• LinuxNewbie.org: "Linux Programming White Papers" Reviewed (Feb 29, 2000, 17:52)
  "I was sure that this book would cut to the straight to the chase as far as programming in Linux was concerned, no holds barred if you like. I certainly wasn't wrong."


• SF Gate: Computer industry: New anti-hacker laws not needed (Feb 29, 2000, 17:49)
  "Congress appears eager to propose new or broader computer crime laws amid dramatic attacks on some of the Internet's flagship sites, but the technology industry is reluctant about broader government involvement even in online security."


• BW: Synopsys and SGI Present Linux-Based Electronic Design Verification Seminar... (Feb 29, 2000, 17:47)
  " '...Synopsys teamed with SGI to accelerate the availability and performance of verification tools on Linux operating system-based parallel computer systems.'..."


• LinuxPR: Centura Goes Live with First Open Source Data Management Solution for Information Appliances (Feb 29, 2000, 17:35)
  "Centura's db.linux has first-mover advantage in the flourishing Linux Information Appliance and embedded systems market."


• TheLinuxGurus.org: Review -- Heroes of Might and Magic III (Feb 29, 2000, 17:30)
  "I was floored when Loki announced they were porting Heroes Of Might And Magic III, and it gets a huge thumbs up from me."


• Reuters: Linuxcare sets IPO at 4.5 mln shares, $13-$15/shr (Feb 29, 2000, 17:28)
  "The terms of the offering were revealed for the first in an amended prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission."


• National Post: iCraveTV shuts off webcasts 'They're gone' (Feb 29, 2000, 17:20)
  "iCraveTV.com has agreed to shut down its controversial webcasts as part of an out-of-court deal with broadcasters on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border."


• BW: Linux With An [SGI] Iris [For High Availability Clustering] (Feb 29, 2000, 17:10)
  "SGI and Linux software provider SuSE Linux have announced a joint engineering project to bring Iris FailSafe, SGI's high-availability clustering software, to the Linux operating system."


• LinuxPR: Linux Stock News Releases Latest Report on Linux in the Financial Markets (Feb 29, 2000, 17:05)
  "Check out our latest feature stories: Rants and Raves (IPO Rumors and Index of Linux Companies), Week in Review, Linux Media Companies, and Linux Security."


• The Register: Microsoft and Caldera - dispelling the myths (Feb 29, 2000, 16:50)
  "The first [myth] is that Caldera Systems - the one that filed for the IPO - is closely-related to Caldera Inc, the winner of the settlement from Microsoft."


• The Register: Chip team applies Linux approach to CPU design (Feb 29, 2000, 16:26)
  "Just as any PC user can download and compile the Linux kernel, chip designers will soon be able to grab OpenCores' OpenRisc 1000 design and use it as the basis for their own processors, completely free of charge."


• The Register: Opera goes public with EPOC browser beta (Feb 29, 2000, 16:18)
  "...supports all Psion and EPOC machines from the Series 5 upwards... twice as fast as the existing application."


• LinuxPower: Review of TurboLinux 6.0 WorkStation (Feb 29, 2000, 16:05)
  "I will here review TurboLinux 6.0 based upon the freely available ISO image download."


• The Register: Win2k - Sun calls in the Exterminator (Feb 29, 2000, 15:59)
  "A fleet of 20 bright yellow trucks [hired by Sun] with Western Exterminator emblazoned on their sides had been retained, and detailed to cruise around the San Francisco Moscone Convention Center on the big day, while Microsoft unwrapped Win2k, including its 63,000, er, issues, inside."


• Bloor Interactive: Java overtakes C++ as most in demand programming skill (Feb 29, 2000, 15:55)
  "...with 36.8% of all programming job adverts in our sample now specifying Java."


• IT-Analysis: Official: Internet is causing economic growth in nations (Feb 29, 2000, 15:47)
  "The OECD, which is basically a think-tank for many of the worlds largest and most powerful countries, has found that countries like the US, UK, Australia and Denmark have all witnessed considerable improvements in their growth potential since the 90's and the web revolution took hold."


• Linux.com: Simple Steps to Secure your System (Feb 29, 2000, 06:24)
  "The simplest way to keep your computer secure is by keeping up with the latest product updates from your distribution. This may seem obvious, but it's a time-consuming task that all too many users neglect to do."


• Linux.com: Professional Computer Graphics on Linux? You Bet (Feb 29, 2000, 06:13)
  "Now, with inexpensive hardware, free software, and a little talent, anybody can venture down the path towards professional-looking computer graphics."


• Linux.com: Why Use Open Source? (Feb 29, 2000, 05:58)
  "Open Source Software (OSS) should be the solution of choice for business today but it isn't. Why?"


• WideOpenNews: Linux's Second Coming? (Feb 29, 2000, 05:33)
  "A new report on the future of the PC market suggests that Linux could garner more play in the desktop market than anticipated."


• Tcl-URL! for February 28, 2000 (Feb 29, 2000, 05:18)
  Tcl is a simple textual language, intended primarily for issuing commands to interactive programs such as text editors, debuggers, illustrators, and shells.


• Python-URL! for February 28, 2000 (Feb 29, 2000, 05:08)
  Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language.


• Byte.com: Design Competition Targets Open Source Tools, Methods (Feb 29, 2000, 04:57)
  "The long-term aim of the Software Carpentry project is to make it easier for scientists and engineers to adopt good software-engineering practices. In order to do this, the project is funding development of a new generation of basic software tools."


• Byte.com: Learning Perl, Part 1 (Feb 29, 2000, 04:00)
  "Why would you want to learn Perl? One good reason is to write CGI scripts for websites; another good reason is to write system-administration scripts. You might want to learn Perl for the same reason Larry Wall originally wrote it: because you're lazy (that was my reason)."


• E-Commerce Times: Corel LINUX Grabs E-Commerce Bundling Deal (Feb 29, 2000, 03:35)
  "It is fitting that we are supplying our Linux software to a company that provides desktops, servers and workstations aimed exclusively for the Linux user."


• Lynx and PacketStream Go Linux (Feb 29, 2000, 03:20)
  "PacketStream's SPS solution, supported by LynxOS and BlueCat Linux, overcomes the limitations of current IP networks to manage and deliver real-time, mission-critical, value-added services demanded by the emerging Internet market."


• Join KDE and Open-Source Software In the Fight For the Desktop (Feb 29, 2000, 02:40)
  "It seems that whenever I suggest a Linux word processor to a coworker or friend, they wait until I am finished describing all of the features and then ask, "Can it import a Word document?"


• WINE 20000227 Has Been Released (Feb 29, 2000, 01:39)
  


• An Appeal from Luis - Bring Linux to El Salvador (Feb 29, 2000, 01:16)
  "I received this letter from a friend in El Salvador. He has stepped forward and volunteered to accept and distribute Linux and other Open Source Products to his countrymen." -- Tom Adelstein


• LinuxPR: First beta of the Common UNIX Printing System 1.1 released! (Feb 29, 2000, 00:51)
  "... provides a portable printing layer for UNIX® operating systems."


• SF Gate: The NC -- With a Twist `Thin-client computing' may be next big thing (Feb 29, 2000, 00:47)
  "McNaught is... skeptical about the latest thin-client twist: terminals based on the free Linux OS."


• ZDNet: On the Linux range: rifles, not shotguns (Feb 29, 2000, 00:17)
  "... the popularity of general-purpose, one-size-fits-all Linux distributions is waning..."


• IBM developerWorks: Open source advocacy -- Selling free software to the uninitiated (Feb 29, 2000, 00:08)
  "In the open source community, it is generally understood that there are three kinds of advocating, each kind having its own goal and tactics."


• Linuxcare: Dear Lina: One Laptop to Rule Them All (Feb 29, 2000, 00:03)
  "Dear Lina: I'm a field sales representative and I take my laptop everywhere. I use it to login to all the other systems I use, but I have difficulty remembering all my passwords. The fewer I have to recall, the better. Is there an easy way I can manage all of my login accounts?"