To: lwn@lwn.net
Subject: Press release: Trustix and Linux Central
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:21:57 +0200 (CEST)
From: marketing@trustix.com

CONTACT INFORMATION TRUSTIX
Eli Ystad, Marketing Director
Telephone: +47 73 54 50 94
E-mail: eli@trustix.com 

CONTACT INFORMATION Linux Central
James Gray
Telephone: +1 810 226 8200
E-mail: sales@linuxcentral.com



Co-operation between Trustix and Linux Central


Distribution agreement between Linux Central and Trustix 


TRONDHEIM, NORWAY -20th of September 2000- TRUSTIX AS and LINUX CENTRAL
today announced that Linux Central has become the first reseller of
Trustix products in the US market. XPloy, XSentry and Trustix Secure Linux
are now available from LinuxCentral.com. 

Trustix is the leader in eBusiness Systems Management Solutions for
Linux. As an enterprise for providing all types of Linux products Linux
Central will market and sell the Trustix products, mainly in the US market.

"We are very satisfied to cooperate with Linux Central", says Eli Ystad,
Marketing Director in Trustix. "This relationship brings the Trustix'
products closer to the US market, and we expect Linux Central to become
an important channel for Trustix products in this market", she continues. 

"We are very excited about offering these products to the Linux community
and opening up the US market to the full line of Trustix products" says
James Gray in Linux Central. He continues, "Distributing products such
as Trustix XSentry Firewall is a large part of our mission to provide
Security tools for the Linux market".

The XSentry Firewall Administration client offers a unique graphical user
interface, which enables rapid and secure graphical modeling of network
entities, and communicates in a secure way with the XSentry Firewall
Server.  The XSentry Firewall is targeted at enterprises with normal to
high security requirements. "The main new features included in the XSentry
version coming early October, the VPN and support for four network zones,
will make this product even more competitive", says James Gray, Linux
Central. 

XPloy, the essential tool for secure and reliable systems management of
the Linux platform for eBusiness, is also available from Linux Central.
XPloy provides visualized control over all Linux Server resources through
a unique graphical user interface, and is an efficient and secure tool
for both systems administrators and ASPs, says Eli Ystad, Trustix.  


About Trustix
Founded in late 1997, Trustix is the leader in eBusiness Systems
Management Solutions for Linux. Trustix is a rapidly growing corporation
headquartered in Trondheim, Norway. Trustix has offices in USA, Silicon
Valley, and Asia, Jakarta. The research and development of the Trustix`
products is done from Norway and Indonesia. Trustix AS is a privately
held company with a growing workforce of more than 50 people worldwide. 

About Linux Central
Linuxcentral.com is the premiere site on the Internet to purchase
anything and everything for Linux.  The product line includes Linux
books, Linux software, Linux distributions, Linux compatible hardware,
an entire collection of Linux gear, and a complete line of Linux Central
CDROMs. Linux Central was founded in 1997 and is a part of internet.com.

XPloy, Trustix Secure Linux, XSentry and Manage your eBusiness! are
trademarks of Trustix AS. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.