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DistributionsCalderaIf Y2K issues are on your mind, you might want to check out Caldera's Y2K statement, which was apparently updated earlier this month. Of course, you might not ... like many pseudo legalese documents, it talks a whole lot without saying much. "While the Caldera Systems Year 2000 Statements are believed to be accurate and are provided in good faith, such Year 2000 Statements and the accuracy thereof are not guaranteed. No Year 2000 Statement of Caldera Systems constitutes a warranty, promise or contractual commitment by Caldera Systems or an amendment to or alteration of any warranty, promise or contract. "Conectiva LinuxThe Brazilian event, Fenasoft '99, is over, but reports back from the show are promising for Conectiva Linux. This report provides more details. We hear that booth space for Linux at the show increased from 10 square meters last year to 300 square meters this year. [Thanks to Cesar A. K. Grossmann for the tip and his translation services.]The latest version of Conectiva Linux was launched at the show as well. DebianThe Debian Weekly News was not published this week. Next week's issue will cover the two week period. Note that they are looking for substitute editors to prevent such outages in the future.The Associated Press put out a couple of press releases that mentioned Debian in association with the LinuxTag in Kaiserslautern. The press releases were in German, so Debian has made available some short, english summaries. The Debian mirror systems got a bit out of sync after July 20th, when master stopped pushing updates out, according to this note. Presumably the problem has now been fixed. Debian Gnu/Linux 2.2 Unleashed is apparently schedule for release in September, which is somewhat amusing, given that Debian 2.2 hasn't been frozen yet and a release date is not yet known. In addition, it mentions that CD-ROMs containing Debian 2.2 will be included with the book ... There is another Debian book in the works as well: Debian GNU/Linux; A Guide to Installation and Usage by John Goerzen and Ossama Othman should be published any day now. It can be preordered via its Amazon.com listing. MandrakeLinux-Mandrake has announced a set of updates to their 6.0 distribution. One of them - the Samba update - includes some security fixes.Here's another set of Linux-Mandrake updates, including a security fix to Apache. Red HatRed Hat's website has gone through another make-over. Gone is the Slashdot, Freshmeat and Linux Weekly News content. Back is a format more focused on Red Hat itself. The news content is still available, but no longer provided on the front page. Meanwhile, it is interesting to note that they credit Google for the site's search engine.Red Hat released an updated Enlightment package, which corrects problems which prevent the Oracle8i installer (and possibly other Java applications) from running correctly. Check their announcement for more details. SlackwareA review of Slackware 4.0 was done by William Henning, at CPUReview. "Slackware 4.0 is a good, solid Linux implementation, and I like it, but it is in sore need of some further upgrades in order to make it more appealing to new users."SuSEHere is SuSE' s press release describing the upcoming SuSE 6.2 release, which will be unveiled at LinuxWorld. 6.2 will (finally) support PAM authentication and will also include a time-limited version of VMWare.SuSE's announcement of the availability of SuSE 6.1 for Alpha processors came out on July 12th, but was missed. Our apologies. SuSE's mailing list management software has been modified. Here is their Administrivia, covering the impacts of the changes and suggesting ways to sort mail so that this change and other potential changes will cause less of an impact. Yellow Dog LinuxSupport for three IBM RS/6000 products has been announced. Optimized versions of Yellow Dog Linux Champion Server 1.1 are now available for "the 43P Model 150, a uniprocessor workstation and entry-level server, the F50 server, with up to four microprocessors, and the upcoming thin application server, code named Pizzazz". An Installation Guide and installation support are also available.Section Editor: Liz Coolbaugh |
July 29, 1999
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