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DistributionsCheck out the LinuxWorld Editor's Choice Awards. Nicholas Petreley covers all the results. Red Flag Linux has been announced in China. This Computerworld article (in Chinese) covers the announcement. Gang Wang was kind enough to send us an unofficial translation. From it, we hear that Red Flag was developed by the Software Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Peking University Founders Group. It is a complete Chinese environment, with the YanHuang Chinese platform pre-installed and using TrueType fonts developed by the Founders Group. It supports both Intel and Alpha platforms and Compaq has joined as a partner to offer support of Red Flag on Alpha machines. Caldera is making a splash in the embedded market this week, with the announcement of Embedix, their embedded Linux distribution based on Caldera's OpenLinux. Embedix is a product of Lineo (formerly Caldera Thin Clients), which has been supporting DR-DOS in the embedded market for the last year and a half. As we mention on our commerce page, Motorola Computer Group (MCG) has announced a partnership with Caldera and Lineo, choosing Embedix for the platform for their products and OEMs with the intent of making this the premier embedded Linux distribution. They also mentioned that they would like to see an effort for embedded Linux distributions like the LSB, to keep the distributions interoperating with each other. CalderaRunner-up for Product of the Year! According to Nicholas' comments, that makes it pretty much as good as the product of the year, Mandrake 6.0, since the choice was hard to make. They also won the award for best Distribution in the Client category.DebianDebian was the runner-up for an amazing number of categories in LinuxWorld's Editor's Choice Awards, including best Distribution in the Server category, Mail Server and Web Server. We also hear it was chosen as a Show favorite in the "Distribution/Client Product". "While Debian can be one of the most difficult distributions to install, a properly maintained Debian server is remarkably easy to administer."The freeze date for the next version of Debian has been set. November 1st is the date announced by Richard Braakman, conditional on the necessary projects being ready. Debian-jp has released their news summary, as they generally do every week. Definite LinuxDefinite Linux 6.1 was released Monday, according to the announcement we received. The new version is based around kernel 2.2.10 and adds support for more RAID hardware, SMP and XFree86 3.3.4. Check the Definite Linux website for more details.MandrakeMandrake won Product of the Year!. In addition, it won the award for "Distribution/Server". Congratulations!SlackwareSpeaking to the guys at the Slackware booth at LinuxWorld, we got a bit of insight into the current Slackware development process. Patrick Volkerding is working hard on the next release of Slackware, which will use glibc2. However, he does not have a current version that is in condition to be downloaded and tested, so a new -current tree has not been created. Keep an ear out and expect to see more news in the near future.SuSETurboLinuxTurboLinux made several announcements this week. Here is a summary of some of them, including their high-availability clustering software, TurboCluster Server. TurboCluster Server runs on both Intel and Alpha platforms. "Unlike Beowulf clustering systems that are designed for highly specialized scientific computing applications, TurboCluster Server delivers clustering technology for Linux servers running mission-critical web applications in the enterprise.TurboLinux and Enlightenment also announced a strategic partnership under which TurboLinux will bundle a full multi-platform working version of EnlightenDSM administration and event management software on its entire product line. Section Editor: Liz Coolbaugh |
August 12, 1999
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