Here are some announcements and newsbites of assorted
interest.
- Linux-Mandrake at LinuxWorld Expo
Gaël Duval says,
” We are very pleased to announce that we (some representatives and
developers from Linux-Mandrake) will be at
LinuxWorld Expo on
august, 10-12 1999 – San Jose, CA. You will find us at the Pick Systems‘ stand. Come to meet
us! - Poll running for Storage Review
Mike pointed us to a poll at this Storagereview.com
site, requesting people to vote for the operating system that they
are interested in. Mike points out that they do a good job of
reviewing hard drives – it sure would be nice if they did some
Linux-based testing. - First pics of Amiga MCC — Transmeta screen
shot
James Russell noticed
that Amiga has confirmed that Transmeta is at least a part of the
team for Amiga MCC. At this
link you’ll find the video snapshot showing Linus Torvalds and
the name Transmeta. - Heretic 2 for Linux!
Natas says, “Its official
guys…we are getting Heretic2 for Linux! Read the Loki Portal Site for more
information!”Also in Loki games news…
- Bungie Anounces Myth II for Linux
David Figueiredo pointed us to
a press release from May that talks about Myth II for Linux. David
said, ‘Bungie Software, long a
leader in both multiplatform development and high-end games, casts
a vote of confidence for Linux by announcing that their recent hit
title ‘Myth II:
Soulblighter’ will soon be available for the open-source
platform.”To port and distribute the title, Bungie has turned to Loki
Entertainment Software, the premier company bringing triple-A
titles to the Linux platform. As Loki’s president Scott Draeker
points out, “Linux is not just for servers any more! Many of the
ten-million-plus Linux users would like to play games on their
operating system of choice.” Loki recently released “Civilization:
Call to Power”, and will be porting “Railroad Tycoon II” and
“Eric’s Ultimate Solitaire” in the near future. Among other game
companies, id Software recently announced that it will be releasing
Quake III: Arena for Linux. - Berliner Tageszeitung interview with Richard
Stallman
Fred Mobach says, “At the site
of the Berliner Tageszeitung you
can read
an interview (in German) with Richard Stallman, who visited the
Wizards of OS conference in Berlin, Germany. It’s a good interview,
it’s like reading RMS’s own papers. - Porting NetZero to Linux?
Andrew Bowser passes this
along:Here is a snippet from a Usenet exchange on a NetZero, the free
(ad-supported) ISP, and Linux. Seems the company is interested in
porting/developing/modifying a Java app to work on Linux boxen. (To
access NetZero’s free Internet service, you have to endure a
permanent Java-based ad window.)Subject: Netzero on Linux Author: Czouch Date: 1999-07-10 Sources: comp.os.linux.hardware, comp.os.linux.networking
Adam,
If you’re willing to try and write the Java code for our banner, go
right ahead. It needs to be a floating Java box, always in the
foreground, that cannot be stuck (i.e. when you change to another
area of your virtual desktop, it moves to alwyas stay on the
visible screen).Don’t worry about it too much, though. I was just informed
yesterday that, after our MacOS port is finished later this year,
work is going to begin on the OS/2 and Linux versions. In fact, I
was told that our original release actually did run under
Linux.So, it looks like it’s only a matter of time….
Czouch
- Aberdeen offers Servers
Dan Lark noticed that the
major online reseller is now offering Linux systems on this webpage