Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 14:10:10 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jason Haas <jhaas@www.linuxppc.org>
To: lwn@lwn.net
Subject: Push to boot on the iBook begins, and other news

Hi all!

Various news items that aren't important enough to warrant a Press
Release:

1.  We've sent an iBook to Linux/PPC developer Benjamin Herrenschmidt, who
sent a report in a recent message to the linuxppc-dev mailing list.

The meesage is at this toothsome URL:

<http://lists.linuxppc.org/cgi-bin/wilma/wilma_hiliter/linuxppc-dev/199910/msg00217.htmlhttp://lists.linuxppc.org/cgi-bin/wilma/wilma_hiliter/linuxppc-dev/199910/msg00217.html>;

Basically, he says that he's got some of the new processors working, and
it may be a bit yet before there's visible progress.

2. We've launched yet another mailing list, this one for users of the
Apple Network Server (ANS). The Apple Network Server 500 and 700 are
1996-era computers sporting PowerPC 604 processors, dual hot-swappable
power supplies, hot-swappable expansion bays, and originally came with the
AIX operating system. Unfotunately, Apple and IBM abandoned the machines
in 1997, leaving them without technical support or a Y2K-compliant OS.
That's where LinuxPPC stepped in: it became possible to boot on the ANSen
in 1998, and many are rapdily being converted to Linux machines.

This mailing list is for communications among users and developers of
LinuxPPC on Apple Network Server 500 and 700. Installation and usage
questions are welcome. This list is not for the Apple Workgroup Server
series, which are functionally equivalent to regular Power Macs and should
be discussed on the linuxppc-user and linuxppc-dev lists.

We're also going to launch a new segment of our site dedicated to
transitioning from AIX to LinuxPPC, which we'll announce later.

3. We've released a version Netscape Communicator with 128-bit encryption
built in. However, due to U.S. crypto export law, it can obly be
downloaded within the United States and Canada.

<http://www.linuxppc.com/news/1099/10.shtml>;

With astonishngly synchronistic timing, the Fortify group released Fortify
for LinuxPPC 1999, which gives the rest of the world 128-bit encryption,
as well as 1024-bit RSA key generation ability. That means everyone,
regardless of location, can have strong crypto in Netscape.

That's about it!

Cheers,

Jason Haas, jhaas@linuxppc.com 
LinuxPPC Inc, www.linuxppc.com