This is an attempt to cover the submittals to Linux Today that
have piled up due to the increased volume of news from the
LinuxWorld Expo. If we have missed your submittal, please accept
our apologies. lt-ed.
In this Quick Takes you will find:
Linux Colombia launchs news site in Spanish, A Tutorial On Using
rsync, The User Interface is Not the Problem!, Penguin64 Portal
Site, Alta Terra Announces Linux Distribution, CeBIT 2000 Special:
Linux on CeBIT, Pictures from Paris Linux Expo, Linux Assembly has
opened, Web Serving for Cheap, OpenAvenue Acquires CodeCatalog and
Cyclic.com and A Special Thanks to the Linux Community.
- Diego sent us
this announcement:“Linux Colombia launchs news site in Spanish
A new news site has been launched by Linux Colombia to serve all
the Spanish Linux community.The url http://www.linuxcolombia.com.co
is launched today to serve the community with Linux news in
Spanish.The site is new, and we are testing it yet, but we are waiting
to improve this site with the help of all the Spanish
community.”
- S.Ramaswamy for this
link:A Tutorial On Using rsync
http://eunuchs.org/linux/rsync/rsync_content.html
- Thanks to Twivel sent
in a link to his opinion piece:“The User Interface is Not the Problem!
This
Story talks about the state of the current User Interfaces,
defines a user interface and talks about how the criticism against
the GNU/Linux user interfaces are actually misleading and
unfounded.It also points out that GNU/Linux is ready for the business
desktop.”
- Lew Teck Kheng sent in
a link for this site:“Penguin64 Portal Site
I have been using Sparc/Linux for about a year and there is
currently site which dedicated to do porting of applications to
Penguin64 (Ultra Penguin) platform.They are looking for interested party to join or volunteer to
participate in these project.To find out more about , please visit http://www.penguin64.org.”
- Thanks to Nyquist for
this link. ]Alta Terra Announces Linux Distribution
http://www.newswire.ca/releases/January2000/31/c4536.html
- Gando sent us this story
and request:“CeBIT 2000 Special: Linux on CeBIT
Theres is a CeBIT Special with focus: ‘Linux on Cebit’ on
http://www.it-nachrichten.de/CeBIT2000/
[in german].Please submitting any linuxproducts- and companies which are
relevant to this to zosel@id-pro.de.”
- Thomas Poindessous was
kind enough to send us these:“Pictures from Paris Linux Expo
We are a french LUG and we take pictures of the day from Paris
Linux Expo. Today, we have RMS, Miguel de icaza and a big ham. See:
http://www.epita.fr/~epx/
and then click on the ear.”
- Konstantin Boldyshev
announced:“Linux Assembly has opened
Linux Assemby — site
devoted to Linux assembly programming — has opened at http://linuxassembly.org (instead of
old one at http://lightning.voshod.com/asm/). If you are looking
for information on assembly programming under Linux, this is the
right place to be. Here you can find various tutorials, Linux
Assembly HOWTO, and actual source code and asmutils.All assembly hackers are welcome :)”
- Thanks to Anthony Awtrey
for this link:“Web Serving for Cheap
The WebReview is recommending
Linux on older Mac hardware as a value start-up web server. It
also goes into how to configure the server and set up users. A very
good read!”
- Eric W. Sink sent in a
link to this announcement:“OpenAvenue Acquires CodeCatalog and Cyclic.com from SourceGear
CodeCatalog is being launched today at LinuxWorld New York. For
details, see the press
release.”
- And finally Steve
sent us this update:“A Special Thanks to the Linux Community
Several weeks ago I put a post on Linux Today
asking for examples of Linux used as a firewall in the corporate
environment. This is to thank all of you who responded. Special
thanks go to Fred Mobach, Vince Pereze of Linuxcare, Linux Today
for posting the request, and several individuals at OnShore.Now for an update on the situation:
We met with the original consulting company today. This is the
company that sent a report to our corporate lawyer about how we
were endangering our data because we were going to use Linux for a
firewall. For sake of simplicity, we’ll call them company A. Now in
order to back their position, company A brought in 2 additional
consultants from company B. Compay B specializes in information
systems security. It appeared to us that company B was uninformed
as to what was really going on. In the end company B supported our
position more than they supported company A’s. We made company A
eat their own words. In all fairness to company A, we believe all
of the underhanded tactics were the doings of this one particular
sales rep. After all, he is the son of a politician 🙂 We felt the
techical consultant sent from company A was forced into the
position of trying to make Linux look bad. He wouldn’t dispute any
facts the we laid out on the table and agreed with most of what we
said. In the end, company A agreed with what we said about Linux,
even though it was exactly opposite of the slander they put in the
report that was sent to our corporate attorney.It was a good day for us. Now the real question is: will the
sales rep from company A send a letter to our corporate attorney
stating that he was wrong?This little incident really showed me how the Linux Community
sticks together. Again, I thank you all for your responses. I
apologize for not naming everyone that responded, but there were
just too many.”