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DistributionsPlease note that security updates from the various distributions are covered in the security section. News and EditorialsEuropean Linux distribution numbers. This July 20th Computer Weekly article focuses on the perceived lack of enterprises products and services for Linux in Europe. Encased within it, however, are some statistics from IDC on Linux market share in Western Europe, from IDC. As usual, when we get little snippets of such information, the exact method in which the statistics have been gathered is jealously guarded and therefore their accuracy cannot be accurately judged. Nonetheless, it is not hard to believe that the popularity of different distributions would vary in different international regions.
Corel LINUX OS: Second Edition to be previewed at LinuxWorld. Corel has announced that it will demonstrate the second edition of its Linux distribution at LinuxWorld on August 15. It is certainly about time that Corel released a new version of its Linux distribution. Corel Linux 1.0 was released in November of 1999 and, though promising, was considered "beta quality" by many reviewers. Many of us expected that Corel would integrate the feedback they received and release an updated version fairly quickly. Instead, months went by with no news from that front. Still, this latest announcement indicates that work on Corel Linux has continued. Unfortunately, the press release contains no details about the improvements we hope to see in this new edition. Interview with Joseph Cheek of Redmond Linux (GNULinux.com). GNULinux.com arranged for an interview with Joseph Cheek, the organizer of the Redmond Linux project. "GNULinux: Will Redmond Linux try to hide the command line from the user when possible (ex: such as COAS or Webmin tools do with basic administration)?Cheek: Oh yes. For personal edition at least, if you have to use the command line to do anything it will be an error on our part. A bug. For other editions, the command line may play a role. It's nice to have it for power users, so later editions geared to power users will probably have it. "Red Hat, SuSE, others update Linux offerings (News.com). News.com looks at upcoming Linux releases. "These new versions, though, are a step ahead of the heart of Linux, called the kernel, which isn't moving along as fast as earlier hoped. Despite psychological tricks such as naming the current development version '2.4.0-test,' the new and improved 2.4 kernel still hasn't arrived." New player emerges in embedded Linux race (News.com). Here's a News.com article about TimeSys. "But the company also has its own individual flavor, said chairman and co-founder Ragunathan Rajkumar. First, its Linux/RT version is 'hard real-time,' meaning that it's guaranteed to respond within a fixed amount of time--a tricky programming issue but one that makes the software appealing to some specialized customers. Second, the company will sell software that allows real-time Java software to run on its Linux systems, Rajkumar said." Caldera OpenLinuxCaldera launches OpenLearning Linux education programs. Caldera Systems has announced the launch of its "OpenLearning" series of education courses. The courses are aimed at LPI certification, and are available from a network of training providers. New FAQs. Caldera has released new FAQs with answers to questions about Java, sound, NTFS support and more. CoyoteCoyote Linux is a single-floppy distribution based on the Linux Router Project (LRP), but using its own configuration tools. Coyote Pro, the commercial version of Coyote, makes a Windows Wizard available for configuration. Coyote Pro is now reported to be active and under development again.DebianDebian Weekly News. This week's Debian Weekly News is entitled "No News is Good News". No show-stopper bugs have been found so far in test cycle 3, so the schedule for the release of Debian 2.2 in time for LinuxWorld San Jose still stands. A new Debian project for a port to the IA64 has begun, but is currently hamstrung due to lack of access to the hardware. Also new this week was a mention of Gibraltar, a Debian-based distribution entering the router/firewall arena. It is designed to run off of CDROM, using a floppy to store configuration information. KondaraKondara Linux (Duke of URL). The Duke of URL reviews Kondara Linux in this article. "While Kondara sounds like another Red Hat-based distribution with a funky name, it's breaking ground. The trademark feature is a single multi-lingual binary. Does Digital Factory's distro have what it takes to become the next big player in the Linux wars?" LibranetLibranet Linux 1.8 released. Libra Computer Systems has announced the release of Libranet Linux 1.8. It is based on packages from the Debian potato release, with some updated packages from woody. Debian potato is the version currently in test cycle 3, which Debian hopes to release officially in the next couple of weeks. Debian woody is the development release already in progress for the release after this one. Red HatRed Hat 'pinstripe' release. Red Hat has sent out an announcement for its latest beta release, called "Pinstripe." With Pinstripe, the Red Hat distribution expands onto a second CD. A list of changes is in the announcement; it includes more LDAP and Kerberos integration, the replacement of lpr with LPRng, and the addition of packages like SANE, gphoto, MySQL, AbiWord, XEmacs, and others. As noted in the announcement: "Important data should not be entrusted to Pinstripe, as it may eat it and make loud belching noises." SuSESuSE 7.0 pre-announcement. Here's an announcement from SuSE about the 7.0 release, which will be out at the end of August. With 7.0, SuSE is splitting the distribution into flavors: the "personal" and "professional" editions. The personal variant is aimed at newcomers and desktop applications, while the professional version is set up for servers. TrustixA Request for Discussion (RFD) has been posted for the created of an unmoderated newsgroup, comp.os.linux.trustix. The newsgroup itself, barring any unforeseen objection, will probably be available within a month or so.Section Editor: Liz Coolbaugh |
August 3, 2000
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