Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 14:49:33 +0000
From: James Stevens <James.Stevens@kyzo.com>
To: lwn@lwn.net
Subject: Linux File, Print & CD Thin Server in Flash-ROM


   KYZO releases the commercial version of its popular PizzaBox Linux
   completely pre-installed in a bootable Flash-ROM. 

  
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KYZO has today released the commercial version of its hugely popular
PizzaBox Linux distribution, so called because a prototype server was built
in a Pizza Hut Takeout box.

In the first month the site took over 500,000 hits has recently registered
75,000 in one day. Registered users that have downloaded and run the free
PizzaBox Server include both the Goddard Space Flight Centre and the Jet
Propulsion Laboratories at NASA.

The commercial version is the same basic software as the free version,
which will still be available, but differs in one significant respect. It
is shipped pre-installed in a bootable Flash-ROM and comes with the the
circuit board you need to make it boot in any 486 (or above) PC. With 10
times the life span of a hard disk, the package is aimed at system builders
who are fed up with having to send skilled engineers to sites for days on
end to re-install a File Server every time a hard drive goes down.

The system includes File, Print & CD sharing, remote access (for full
remote administration), UPS monitoring, Tape backup, Hardware monitoring,
APM. It will automatically accept both SCSI & IDE hard drives and comes
with a sophisticated, JavaScript enabled, web management interface.  It is
aimed squarely at the SME market where current offerings from the big
players are overcomplicated for the SME sector.

[Editor's note - this product may be seen at www.kyzo.com. ]