Linux Today Quick Takes

A new cartoon strip, Venezuela passed the Y2K by the hand of
Linux, FrankenLinux.com – A new site for Linux Newbies, What’s In
and Out at the Washington Post, BoardZilla – The Open Source
Bulletin Board, Video editing software for Linux and Free Linux CDs
from Bynari International.

• Chris Coleman writes:

  “Daemon News launched
  its latest Comic Strip,
  “Source Wars”.

  Last years Comic Strip
  Co-Starred a Mobster Penguin named Lenny. It looks like he is
  making an appearance in this Adventure as well.”

• Alberto Armengol wrote to
  tell us:

  “Venezuela passed the Y2K by the hand of Linux

  Ricardo Strusberg and his team were present with
  Linux in the transition to year 2000. Corvus,
  Strusberg’s company, was selected by the Presidential Commission,
  to develop the system to collect, consolidate and report all events
  occured in the dawn of the new year. The system and all the
  security of servers were developed on Linux and the DataBase system
  was PostgreSQL. Everything worked fine and, fortunately, no major
  events were reported.”

• Robert Hoffman
  sent in this announcement:

  “FrankenLinux.com – A new site for Linux Newbies

  I have put up a new website geared toward helping Linux newbies.
  You can find it at www.frankenlinux.com.

  Basic guides are provided on vi, ftp, telnet, and finding help
  among other things. There is also a guide to improving fonts on
  RedHat systems that non-newbies may find helpful.”

• Thomas sent us a link to a
  
  Wasihington Post story saying “What was In is Out, and in 2000,
  almost all of it’s Out.”

  Of Particular note:
  Out: Windows
  In: Linux

• Malte Ubl sent this
  announcement:

  “BoardZilla – The Open Source Bulletin Board
  The Boardzilla project announces its existence. The purpose of this
  project is to create the world’s greatest open source forum system.
  We are looking for ideas, wishlists, and, of course, developers.
  More information can be found on our web pages. A perl-based core
  for the new BBS system was initially released two weeks ago.”

• Victor Goodman of
  LinuxStart wrote:

  “While adding links at LinuxStart Sharyl came upon this cool
  video editing software for Linux , and the free download. The url
  is Broadcast 2000
  Now, go out and make a movie:)”

• Finally, Julie of Bynari
  International wrote to tell us:

  “Bynari International is offering there old distribution
  inventory (older Linux cd’s) to the public for free. (While
  supplies last) This includes older Linux distribution cd’s (which
  mainly consist of Mandrake 6.1 cd’s). Also as a bonus Bynari
  International is offering one Level 1 Support Call and 30 days of
  email support to the lucky people who get the free cd’s. To get
  your free cd check the contact information below:

  Phone Number: 1-800-750-5320
  DFW: 214-350-5772

  Email:
  Contact 1
  Contact 2

  When sending a email for requesting a cd please include the
  following:
  Name
  Address
  contact information (phone number or main email address)
  What distribution you prefer?”