Sections: Main page Security Kernel Distributions On the Desktop Development Commerce Linux in the news Announcements Linux History Letters All in one big page See also: last week's Announcements page. |
AnnouncementsResourcesBynari publishes series of white papers. Bynari has published a series of white papers in PDF format covering subjects from systems administration to cost analysis of using Linux for messaging platforms to setting up Outlook for use with Linux servers. Iptables Basics (Linuxnewbie.org). An introduction to IPTables has been made available over at Linuxnewbie.org. "First you need to know how the firewall treats packets leaving, entering, or passing through your computer. Basically there is a chain for each of these. Any packet entering your computer goes through the INPUT chain. Any packet that your computer sends out to the network goes through the OUTPUT chain." Linus biography. In what looks like a sort of unauthorized biography, the Softpanorama Open Source Educational Society has posted a biography of Linus and the evolution of Linux. While it carries a lot of interesting material, it could use a little editing. "After graduation Linux stayed with university for some time and as he admitted himself he actually spent most of his time working on Linux." Note: That's not a typo on our part. (Thanks to Ben De Rydt) Tip Of The Week: Shell Looping (LinuxLookup). This week's tip is on shell looping. "Linux shells offer loop constructs that allow you to iterate over some specified values. In the shell, these values are frequently generated from the output of some other command." LinuxUser issue 8. Articles from LinuxUser #8 are now available for download in PDF format. Camelot Communications to Launch Camelot Media. The 'Threads' newsletter will focus on XML, Java, Web Services, Wireless and Open Source Software. Ken North will be the Editor-in-Chief. EventsIST programme actions on free / open source software development. On May 18, 2001 IST will present a conference on free/open source software development in Brussels. David Faure, KDE developer and official representative, will give the keynote. Projeto Software Livre RS. II Forum Internacional do Software Livre presents Projeto Software Livre RS May 29 - May 31, 2001 in Brazil. Confirmed participants include Timothy Ney - president of the Free Software Foundation, Rasmus Lerdorf - creator of PHP, Kenneth Avery Coar - member of the Apache consortium, Bruce Perens and LinuxChix. Linuxdays 2001. Linuxdays 2001 takes place in St. Pölten, Austria, June 20 - June 21, 2001. Events: April 19 - June 14, 2001.
Additional events can be found in the LWN Event Calendar. Event submissions should be sent to lwn@lwn.net in a plain text format. User Group NewsFRPythoneers Meeting Notes 2001-04-16. The meeting notes for the April Front Range Pythoneers meeting are available. There is quite a bit of detail which should be of interest to Python programmers everywhere. 2nd Magdeburger Linuxtag. On May 18 and May 19, 2001 the Magdeburger Linux User Group and their partners present the 2nd Magdeburger Linuxtag in Magdeburg, Germany. Hot Springs Educational Technology Institute conference. The Hot Springs lug will be presenting 6 formal workshops over the 4 days of the conference, June 11 - June 14, 2001. You must be signed up in advance for the workshops, and space is going fast. LUG Events: April 19 - May 3, 2001.
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Software AnnouncementsHere are this week's Freshmeat software announcements. Freshmeat now offers the announcements sorted in two different ways: The Alphabetical List and Sorted by license |
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