Computer Maker to Bundle Internet Access
Dateline — Dallas, TX May 23, 1999 Bynari Systems today announced it’s
affiliation with HEX.NET to
provide dial-up Internet access for Linux users.
Major ISP’s do not have software or support for Linux systems.
If one wants to get on the Internet from a Linux computer you have
to configure your own PPP or be on a LAN. Some services like
AT&T can’t help you at all because of the way they encrypt
passwords and populate dialers. The lack of support for Linux by
the ISP’s is insidious. ISP’s hook-up Windows and Mac users to the
Internet using Linux software to run their networks. One might
think they could create a little bandwidth for the Linux
desktop.
Bynari selected HEX.NET to bundle ISP service with Bynari’s
desktop Linux computers. Gateway 2000, Inc. started the concept of
an ISP service bundle in late 1997. Today, if you buy a Gateway
computer you can also get Internet access in the ‘your:-) ware’
package. Bynari decided to take that concept further by offering
the Linux community dial-up access in a variety of offerings listed
at their Web site. Bynari does not require a customer to buy a
Bynari computer to get Linux ISP service the way Gateway does. You
can just subscribe to Linux Internet access through Bynari
regardless of where you got Linux.
It seems ironic that ISP’s make money
using Linux software to run their
networks and will only hook
up Windows and Mac users.
“HEX.NET has offered Linux users in North Central Texas Internet
access since 1995,” Tom Adelstein, CFO of Bynari noted. “We chose
them because they really know the business and can turn on
additional cities in less than a day.”
Linux users can download the X-ISP dialer and
Netscape Communicator from the Bynari site.
X-ISP is a visual, X11/XForms based, user-friendly
interface to pppd/chat, i.e. an X11 dialup-networking tool. The
dialer supports Linux-2.x, SunOS-4.1.x and Solaris-2.5.x, 2.6, and
2.7.
“The lack of dial-up access for Linux users seems like something
that just fell through the cracks,” Adelstein also noted. “We think
it’s time for someone to take a stand on this issue and make it
visible.”
Bynari Systems specializes in preconfigured and made to order
Linux computers. The company recently announced their Web site had
gone “live” on April 20, 1999.
URL: www.bynari.com
Email: webmaster@bynari.com