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Resources

Sendmail Setup for Your Home Network (Linux Journal). This article from Linux Journal shows how simple it can (or should) be to make a Linux box act as a mail server to the outside world for a small home network using Sendmail. "Assuming the system is a home or small company network with a Linux machine running Sendmail as the mail server, Sendmail's functions will be to receive mail messages from machines on the internal network, deliver local messages to their respective users and deliver to the Internet messages for external destinations. Additionally, the server will receive mail from the Internet."

Linux-Mandrake donation center. Linux-Mandrake sent us word of their plans to open up a donation center for users to provide funding to individual projects at MandrakeSoft.

Mandrake 8 Apache/PHP/PostgreSQL hints. AboutLinux has an article on getting Apache, PHP and PostgreSQL running on a freshly installed Mandrake 8.0 system.

Why Can't My 2.4 Kernel See Some Web Sites? (ELToday). Enterprise Linux Today looks at problems with the ECN protocol, which is implemented in the 2.4 kernel. "Eventually, the network infrastructure will be updated so that this new protocol (currently experimental) is supported everywhere, but what can a Linux user do about the problem in the meantime? The good news is that there is an easy workaround, and it doesn't involve staying with the 2.2.x kernel."

Of course, we can't resist pointing out that LWN kernel page readers knew about this back in September, 2000.

Tip of the Week: rpm2cpio and cpio (LinuxLookup). RPM is pretty common format for Linux systems, but for the many people on non-RPM systems, this week's TOTW uses rpm2cpio and cpio to look inside the RPM package.

Events

Linux@work Europe 2001 -- call for participation. Linux@work is one day event with a conference and exhibits. There is no charge for attendance but pre-registration is required. Linux@work will be held in cities around Europe during May and June.

Embedded Internet Conference. Here's a call for participation for the EIC, August 14-16, 2001 in the Santa Clara Convention Center.

Events: April 26 - June 21, 2001.
Date Event Location
April 26 - 27, 2001Linux Expo Road ShowEastern Europe
April 26, 2001Linux AfricaKyalami Exhibition & Conference Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa
May 5 - 6, 2001Linux Certification BootcampCupertino, California
May 8 - 10, 2001LinuxWorld(New Zealand ExpoCentre Greenlane)Auckland, New Zealand
May 9, 2001Linux@workOslo
May 9 - 10, 2001Linux ExpoSao Paulo, Brazil
May 10, 2001Linux@workStockholm
May 10 - 12, 2001LinuxWorld TaiwanTaipei, Taiwan
May 11, 2001Linux@workHelsinki
May 13 - 17, 2001Spring 2001 Enterprise Linux Implementation ConferenceSan Jose, CA
May 14 - 17, 2001The 2001 Applied Computing ConferenceSanta Clara, CA
May 15, 2001Linux@workFrankfurt
May 15 - 18, 2001Linux ExpoShanghai, China
May 16, 2001Linux@workZurich
May 17, 2001Linux@workMilan
May 18 - 19, 20012nd Magdeburger LinuxtagMagdeburg, Germany
May 18, 2001IST programme actions on free / open source software developmentBrussels
May 20 - 23, 2001eXtreme Programming(XP2001)Sardinia, Italy
May 24 - 26, 2001LinuxWorldKorea
May 29 - 31, 2001II Forum Internacional do Software LivreBrazil
June 6 - 7, 2001Linux ExpoMilan, Italy
June 7 - 8, 2001Second European Tcl/Tk User MeetingGermany
June 11 - 14, 2001Hot Springs Educational Technology Institute conference(Hot Springs High School)Hot Springs, Arkansas
June 12, 2001Linux@workLondon
June 13, 2001Linux@workParis
June 14, 2001Linux@workBrussels
June 15, 2001Linux@workAmsterdam
June 20 - 21, 2001Linuxdays 2001St. Pölten, Austria

User Group News

Bjarne Stroustrup speaking at Columbia. Columbia University's ACM chapter announced that Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++, will be giving a talk on "multiparadigm programming in C++" in 501 Schermerhorn Hall at 7:30pm on Thursday, April 26th. Admission is free, and all are welcome. The easiest way to reach Columbia is to take the 1 or 9 subway to 116th Street.

LUG Events: April 26 - May 10, 2001.
Date Event Location
April 26, 2001Bergen LUGBergen, Norway.
April 28, 2001Consortium of All Bay Area LinuxMenlo Park, CA.
April 28, 2001OLUG InstallfestOmaha, Nebraska.
May 1, 2001LUG of DavisDavis, CA.
May 1, 2001NorthWest Chicagoland LUG(NWCLUG)(Harper College)Palatine, Illinois.
May 1, 2001Missouri Open Source LUGKirkwood, Missouri.
May 2, 2001Silicon Valley LUGSan Jose, CA.
May 2, 2001KCLUG InstallfestKansas City, MO.
May 2, 2001Southeastern Indiana LUG(SEILUG)(Madison/Jefferson County Public Library)Madison, IN.
May 3, 2001Edinburgh LUGEdinburgh, Scotland.
May 5, 2001Twin Cities LUG(TCLUG)Minneapolis, MN.
May 5, 2001Sheffield LUG(ShefLUG)University of Sheffield, UK.
May 7, 2001Rice University LUG(RLUG)Houston, TX.
May 7, 2001Baton Rouge LUG(BRLUG)Baton Rouge, LA.
May 8, 2001Victoria LUGUniversity of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia.
May 8, 2001Long Island LUG(LILUG)(SUNY Farmingdale)Farmingdale., NY.
May 9, 2001Toledo Area LUGToledo, OH.
May 9, 2001Columbia Area LUG(CALUG)(Capita Technologies Training Center)Columbia, Maryland.
May 9, 2001Silicon Corridor LUG(SCLUG)(Back of Beyond pub in Kings Road)Reading, UK.
May 10, 2001Boulder LUGBoulder, CO.
May 10, 2001Phoenix Linux Users Group(PLUG)(Sequoia Charter School)Mesa, AZ.


April 26, 2001

   

 

Software Announcements


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