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Los Angeles, California Wednesday, March 17, 1999 LinuxStart.Com Rolls Out Linux Portal LinuxStart.Com aims to be the only portal a Linux user needs. We have a comprehensive search engine, Slashdot and Freshmeat "news", latest up-to-the minute headlines, and offer free web hosting for other Linux, OSS, and FreeBSD sites. We believe our search engine is the most comprehensive on the 'net and we are working on new functionality and indexing methodologies daily. First and foremost, LinuxStart.Com is the most user-friendly engine and Linux Portal on the Net. As Linux gains desktop marketshare, newbies and regular users alike are going to need an "easy" searching method -- all searchable databases and knowledge bases about Linux, today, produce listings that are only decipherable to Linux users and people with computer experience. This is not the case at LinuxStart.Com We are multi-lingual as well - with capabilities to view only the language that one wants to see (coming soon!). We have a "Remote URL entry team" who post new links everyday ^Ö some in languages other than English, so they are adding links for those languages respectively. Our team was recruited from people who were simply interested in helping out. We want to emphasize this community aspect and stress that we are not money driven. While we run banner ads simply to keep us alive, we have turned down offers for co-marketing endeavors, for we don't believe in being biased to certain products/vendors simply because they paid us. Future Plans: - A "My Netscape" type feature ("My LinuxStart"?) where users' settings will be stored in cookies and then when one comes back, all their preferences will be the same as they left them. This is very useful as far as languages go - as user can simply click "French" or "English" and only view that language while they are navigating the site. - Free Email - More categories w/ more intuitive structure. - Plus much more! LinuxStart.Com 1-800-345-3875