Linux News for Aug 31, 2000

• LinuxWorld: Booting without all the extras, Part 2 - More fun with run levels (Aug 31, 2000, 23:35)
  "In this installment of Ask the Geek, I will talk about what these services do and how to decide whether or not you need them."


• BW: IBM Launches $200 Million Linux Initiative In Asia Pacific, Including Linux Development Centers (Aug 31, 2000, 23:14)
  "As a key part of this initiative, IBM announced that it is opening a series of Asia Pacific Linux development centers to help software vendors port their applications to the Linux environment."


• PRNewswire: Computer Associates Unicenter TNG Framework Bundled With SuSE's Latest Linux Offering (Aug 31, 2000, 23:07)
  "For the first time, SuSE is releasing a personal and a professional version of its operating system."


• BW: Merlin Software to Provide Support For Sun's Solaris, IBM AIX and RedHat SPARC (Aug 31, 2000, 23:04)
  "Even though PerfectBACKUP+ for Solaris is still in release 5, we continue to see between 100 and 140 downloads of the product each month. That's roughly 20% of all PerfectBACKUP+ downloads from our site."


• BW: RadiSys Announces Partnership With MontaVista to Support Linux On Its Embedded Solutions (Aug 31, 2000, 22:57)
  "Under the agreement, MontaVista is providing focused support on RadiSys' embedded solutions for its 100 percent Linux-based technology."


• GameSpy.com: Linux Gaming (Aug 31, 2000, 22:37)
  "Games and Linux, two subjects which everyone at least has an opinion on, but at the most recent Linux World Expo there was more than an opinion on display and more than just empty promises."


• LinuxPR: Jabber.com Forms Technical Advisory Board (Aug 31, 2000, 22:21)
  "Jabber.com Announces Formation Of Technical Advisory Board
  Craig Burton, Rohit Khare and Stephen Williams appointed as first three board members."


• LinuxPR: Microtrader announces partnership with e-smith, inc. (Aug 31, 2000, 22:16)
  "Winnipeg-based computer products vendor joins forces with e-smith to provide reliable, secure, easy-to-use network server solutions for small businesses."


• Signal Ground: Linux Hardware Support Survey Part 1: Motherboards (Aug 31, 2000, 22:10)
  "Our feeling is that if you're using Linux, why not give your hard earned dollars to a company trying to support your favorite OS."


• VNU Net: SCO and Caldera open to questions (Aug 31, 2000, 22:00)
  "What the world needs now is a company that can give Linux a global infrastructure and a commitment to open source computing."


• Smart Partner: Welcome To The New Linux Clubhouse (Aug 31, 2000, 21:09)
  "The lab's primary aim: to make Linux more reliable, available and serviceable--and thus, better able to meet enterprise computing needs."


• Smart Partner: Will Linux Group Burn Sun? - The OSDL may have a hidden agenda against Solaris (Aug 31, 2000, 21:00)
  "To be sure, the OSDL's primary focus is catapulting Linux into the enterprise. But OSDL's hardware members wouldn't mind if Linux somehow manages to eclipse Solaris, too."


• CNET News.com: Red Hat holds huge Linux lead, rivals growing (Aug 31, 2000, 20:43)
  "Red Hat has more of the Linux market than its next five competitors combined, but those competitors all are increasing their share faster."


• Salon: Ain't no network strong enough [Book Review] (Aug 31, 2000, 20:32)
  "Computer insecurity is inevitable," he warns. "Networks will be hacked. Fraud will be committed. Money will be lost. People will die."


• LinuxNews.com: What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been: A Linux Newbie Trips on the Open Source Welcome Mat (Aug 31, 2000, 20:09)
  "Frebe Field first contacted LinuxNews.com in June, 2000, with what he thought might be an off-the-wall subject--an UN-success story. "Well, I don't know how this might sound, but ever since I started to try to get a Linux system up and running as an alternative to the big DoZZZe in February of 1999, it's been one drag after another," Field began."


• LinuxNews.com: Familiar Music Sounds GNU With LilyPond (Aug 31, 2000, 20:05)
  "Educators and statisticians generally agree that musical prowess and scientific aptitude are related by the language of mathematics, often complementing each other's development."


• TurboLinux Security Announcement: Package: netscape-communicator 4.74 and earlier (Aug 31, 2000, 19:51)
  "There is a serious problem in netscape's java libraries that allows an applet to act as a web server on the client machine, exposing all files on the machine to the world."


• Midgard Weekly Summary for August 31, 2000 (#45) (Aug 31, 2000, 19:42)
  Midgard is a freely-available Web application development and publishing platform based on the popular PHP scripting language. It is an Open Source development project.


• LinuxPlanet: Editor's Note: It's Raining Hardware in Portland (Aug 31, 2000, 18:59)
  "Linux, grassroots phenomenon that it is, has long suffered from the snubs of high-end aficionados, who have rightly pointed out that enterprise computing is a tough nut to crack for anybody, let alone an OS that has thrived primarily in areas of computing where the hardware involved is cheap and ubiquitous."


• LinuxPR: Jon "maddog" Hall speaks to the Linux Community in Japan (Aug 31, 2000, 18:05)
  "Mr. Hall will give an overview of Linux and its migration from a desktop project to an internet server, to a supercomputer to embedded systems."


• BSD Today: Web-mail Part II: Twig and BasiliX (Aug 31, 2000, 17:33)
  "This week I'll be taking a look at two MySQL-based front-ends, which can speed up the server access, but can also mean that the setup is much harder."


• LinuxDevices.com: Embedded Linux Weekly Newsletter for Aug. 31, 2000 (Aug 31, 2000, 17:20)
  "Keep up with the fast-moving "post-PC" world of Linux-based intelligent devices, Internet appliances, and embedded systems with this info-packed weekly update from LinuxDevices.com . . ."


• eWeek: Tech Analysis: .Net changes rules (Aug 31, 2000, 15:39)
  "The Windows platform, despite its portfolio of services for application developers, shows a lack of attention to productivity and usability goals that are finally addressed by Microsoft Corp.'s forthcoming .Net initiative. ... Microsoft's .Net platform will buffer developers from error-prone tasks such as data type checking and memory management, automating these services (much like Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java) in the .Net run-time environment..."


• In Context: ThinkFree ASP Architecture to Open Desktops to Linux? (Aug 31, 2000, 14:50)
  "ThinkFree.com has an architecture for a "fat-free ASP" that goes a long way toward making the ASP model work -- and if it works, for many that's one less barrier to consideration of Linux on the desktop."


• technofile: Deluxe version of Corel's revised Linux comes with a lot of extras (Aug 31, 2000, 14:35)
  In some ways it's easier to use, [than Windows] especially if you count all the ways Corel Linux handles the basic setup of the operating system. Windows needs to catch up to be in the same league as Corel Linux in this area.


• The Register: Word processor to be integrated with MSN Explorer client (Aug 31, 2000, 14:23)
  "Think of what MSN's doing as developing a simple kind of client middleware that would be relatively straightforward to implement on other operating systems. Say AOL's Linux Web appliance is a success, mightn't that be a smart place to start?"


• LinuxWorld.com.au: IBM invests US$200M in Linux development in Asia-Pacific (Aug 31, 2000, 13:53)
  "...will see the creation of Linux Development Centres and Linux Competency Centres across the region. ... The centres will be open to all software vendors, whether they be start-ups working on a new innovative use of Linux, or leading enterprise level application developers who want to port their existing products to the Linux platform."


• Inter@ctive Week: Neoware Jumps On Earnings (Aug 31, 2000, 13:47)
  "Sales of its NeoLinux software, an embedded version of the industry- standard Red Hat Linux operating system targeted at information appliances, now account for one percent of margins."


• CNET News.com: MSN overhaul takes many cues from rival AOL (Aug 31, 2000, 13:33)
  "The MSN overhaul comes as the company embarks on a new, companywide Internet strategy, called Next Generation Windows Services, which is aimed at fending off Web-based rivals, applications, and upcoming operating systems like the Linux and Palm operating systems."


• AllLinuxDevices: Natl. Semiconductor Japan to Exhibit 41 Info Appliance Products At Tokyo Seminar (Aug 31, 2000, 13:29)
  "Several information appliances powered by Geode technology and porting Linux as the operating system will be presented at the IA seminar, including DT Research's thin clients and WebPAD devices, Infomatec's thin clients and set-top boxes, and Wyse's thin clients."


• IT-Analysis: Cabal to develop SMP Linux lab (OSDL) in Portland Oregon (Aug 31, 2000, 13:14)
  "The move makes a powerful amount of sense. The Portland based laboratory may well remove the final barriers holding back an open source deluge, by providing an open laboratory with all of the hardware a Linux developer can dream of."


• AllLinuxDevices: Dialtone Internet First to Update Linux Servers For Delivering Wireless Web Content (Aug 31, 2000, 13:13)
  "Dialtone Internet... today announced that all its Linux Servers and Linux Cluster Servers are being updated to deliver web content to wireless devices."


• Stockhouse.com: Linux: How to, and How Not to, Make Money Off Linux, Part 2 (Aug 31, 2000, 11:19)
  "Red Hat is taking a server software and services/support approach to Linux while Corel is trying to push Linux applications for the desktop. Right now, there is money in Red Hat's approach but virtually none in Corel's. Red Hat's approach is better."


• Linux Weekly News for August 31, 2000 (Aug 31, 2000, 09:30)
  Leading items and editorials: Like standards, software licenses have a nice feature, Interview with Eazel's Bud Tribble and Taking a ride on the Galeon.


• Linux.com: KDE: Konspiracy, Kalumny, Konsternation? (Aug 31, 2000, 08:46)
  "A few important things the KDE team and its advocates should realize, however, is that although GNOME is now considered by many to be "the default desktop," that really doesn't mean anything."


• osOpinion: Has the MP3 business been pushed too far? (Aug 31, 2000, 08:27)
  "The trading of MP3 files has happened for almost three to four years before Napster was even created."


• osOpinion: How Penguins Survive: Why the Free Software movement is Unkillable (Aug 31, 2000, 08:07)
  "Threats don't work against the flock. Direct assault doesn't work. There are too many penguins to deal with individually, too little focus for serious control by an external entity. So, what methods are left to an aggressor?"


• LinuxWorld.com.au: Sydney's Installfest: SLUG Shines (Aug 31, 2000, 07:41)
  "The Installfest attracted approximately 150 people who spanned a range of computing abilities, from beginner to professional. Many other people came along without computers in order to just learn what Linux is all about."


• EarthWeb: Linux in Manufacturing: Building Linux up [at Kaiser Aluminum] (Aug 31, 2000, 04:52)
  "There are more than 20 Linux systems in the plant's production environment... They track quality control, manage machines, monitor the production process, and produce quality reports. Kaiser is also using Linux to run Oracle database software that tracks chemistry at the mill. In addition, many of Kaiser's manufacturing systems engineers are running Linux on their workstations and Kaiser uses Linux servers for sharing files."


• Ch@nnelWeb: Linux for the Enterprise [Red Hat VP Paul McNamara Audio Q&A] (Aug 31, 2000, 03:47)
  Before joining Red Hat, McNamara was president and chief operating officer of Asset Management Technologies... He also held a number of management positions at IBM."


• CNET News.com: Conoco hopes to hit oil with slick [Linux] supercomputer (Aug 31, 2000, 03:02)
  "The machine can perform 500 billion calculations per second... Conoco used a method similar to the Beowulf approach, including its own modifications to the Linux kernel..."


• Kernel Cousin Debian Hurd #58 By Zack Brown (Aug 31, 2000, 02:21)
  Highlights from the Debian-Hurd development mailing lists for the previous week.


• SF Gate: High-Tech Establishment To Fund Linux Development (Aug 31, 2000, 02:17)
  "The major sponsors have pledged to kick in "multimillions per year per company" to equip and staff the lab... Additional labs, including facilities in Europe and Asia, are likely to be announced next year..."


• CCN: SpellCaster Announces Contract With Cisco (Aug 31, 2000, 00:55)
  "TeleScope Server is SpellCaster's Linux derivative server operating system. TeleScope Server has office server and connectivity features designed to provide both ease of use and lower deployment costs in multi-server environments. This operating system incorporates the robust stability of Linux and a user-friendly browser based user interface."


• BW: Conoco Builds Next-Generation Geophysical Supercomputer (Aug 31, 2000, 00:50)
  "Conoco believes that the future of geophysical computing lies in the new Intel cluster architecture and the Linux operating system; and we have merged these technologies with our own software to achieve a milestone in the seismic field."


• BW: Tripwire Partners With SecurityFocus.com to Expand Security Awareness (Aug 31, 2000, 00:41)
  "The first initiative from the partnership will be the Tripwire Newsletter, a monthly online publication providing critical and timely industry updates such as security alerts, market news and events, recommended reading, and the latest Tripwire product information."


• Caldera Systems Security Advisory: /tmp file race in faxrunq (Aug 31, 2000, 00:35)
  "The mgetty package contains a number of tools for sending an receiving facsimiles. One of the tools, faxrunq, uses a marker file in a world-writable directory in an unsecure fashion. This bug allows malicious users to clobber files on the system owned by the user invoking faxrunq."


• LinuxPR: Open3 Integrates Jabber Open Source Instant Messaging (Aug 31, 2000, 00:26)
  "Announcement strengthens case for adoption of open source technology in the enterprise."


• LinuxPR: XML Days Europe --Call for participation (Aug 31, 2000, 00:21)
  "New pan-European series of events focused on XML (Extensible Markup Language) in October 2000."