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 March/April 2001 Embedded Linux Journal

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The March/April issue of SSC's newest publication, Embedded Linux Journal, will hit the streets March 2nd. ELJ focuses on the use of Linux and other open-source software to increase efficiency, economy and stability in embedded design and development.

Free subscriptions are available to qualified individuals in the USA, Canada and Mexico. Paid subscriptions to other countries are also available. Visit the ELJ web site at http://embedded.linuxjournal.com to subscribe, read articles on-line and post your comments.


 March 2001 Linux Journal

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The March issue of Linux Journal is on newsstands now. This issue focuses on Consulting. Click here to view the table of contents, or here to subscribe.

All articles through December 1999 are available for public reading at http://www.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/mags.html. Recent articles are available on-line for subscribers only at http://interactive.linuxjournal.com/.


Distro News


 SuSE

SuSE Linux has announced the availability of SuSE Linux 7.1, with the newly released Kernel 2.4, in both Personal and Professional editions. SuSE will continue shipping the reliable 2.2 series kernels parallel to Kernel 2.4. For more information, please visit SuSE's product web page.

The Duke of URL has recently posted a review of the very recently superceded SuSE Linux Professional 7.0. It will certainly give you a feel for the spirit of SuSE's distribution, although of course there will be some extra features/updates in 7.1.


SuSE Linux and IBM Global Services have signed a worldwide technical support agreement, covering various platforms, including IBM eServers. IBM Global Services will use SuSE's expertise to help address customers' technical Linux concerns. Since the announcement of SuSE Linux Enterprise Server for zSeries (formerly S/390) in October, SuSE is the only company delivering a worldwide Linux distribution for IBM xSeries, pSeries and zSeries eServers. At this time, SuSE supports more IBM server platforms than any other commercially available Linux distribution.


SuSE Linux has also announced the new SuSE Linux Knowledge Portal. The service can be accessed and searched on the Web at SuSE's German, UK and US web-sites. Topics covered are wide-ranging, and the site is aimed at both Linux desktop newcomers and experienced system administrators. Much of the information is not distro-specific.


News in General


 Upcoming conferences and events


Bang!inux
March 5-7, 2001
Bangalor, India
http://www.Banglinux.com/

LINUX Business Expo
March 7-9, 2001
Sydney, Australia
http://www.linuxexpo.com.au

Computerfest
March 10-11, 2001
Dayton, OH
http://www.computerfest.com

Internet World Spring
March 12-16, 2001
Los Angeles, CA
http://www.internetworld.com

COMDEX Canada West
March 13-15, 2001
Vancouver, B.C.
http://www.key3media.com/comdex/canadawest2001

Game Developers Conference
March 20-24, 2001
San Jose, CA
http://www.gdconf.com

CeBit
March 22-28, 2001
Hannover, Germany
http://www.cebit.de

3rd USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems
March 26-28, 2001
San Francisco, CA
http://www.usenix.org/events/usits01

LinuxBazaar
March 28-29, 2001
Prague, Czech Republic
http://www.linuxbazaar.cz

Colorado Linux Info Quest Conference & Expo/CLIQ 2001

March 29-30, 2001
Denver, CO
http://thecliq.org

Association of C/C++ Users (ACCU)
March 29-31, 2001
Oxford, England
http://www.accuconf.com/

LINUX Business Expo
April 2-5, 2001
Chicago, IL
http://www.linuxbusinessexpo.com

Linux Expo, Madrid
April 4-5, 2001
Madrid, Spain
http://www.linuxexpomadrid.com/EN/home

Linux Expo Road Show
April 23-27, 2001
Various Locations
http://www.linux-expo.com

Open Source Development Network Summit
April 30 - May 1, 2001
Austin, TX
http://osdn.com/conferences/handhelds/

Linux for Industrial Applications
3rd Braunschweiger Linux-Tage
May 4-6, 2001
Braunschweig, Germany
http://braunschweiger.linuxtage.de/industrie/

Linux@Work Europe 2001
May 8 - June 15, 2001
Various Locations
http://www.ltt.de/linux_at_work.2001

Linux Expo, São Paulo
May 9-10, 2001
São Paulo, Brazil
http://www.linux-expo.com

SANS 2001
May 13-20, 2001
Baltimore, MD
http://www.sans.org/SANS2001.htm

7th Annual Applied Computing Conference
May 14-17, 2001
Santa Clara, CA
http://www.annatechnology.com/annatech/HomeConf2.asp

Linux Expo, China
May 15-18, 2001
Shanghai, China
http://www.linux-expo.com

SITI International Information Technologies Week
OpenWorld Expo 2001
May 22-25, 2001
Montréal, Canada
http://www.mediapublik.com/en/

Strictly e-Business Solutions Expo
May 23-24, 2001
Minneapolis, MN
http://www.strictlyebusinessexpo.com

Linux Expo, Milan
June 6-7, 2001
Milan, Italy
http://www.linux-expo.com

USENIX Annual Technical Conference
June 25-30, 2001
Boston, MA
http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01

PC Expo
June 26-29, 2001
New York, NY
www.pcexpo.com

Internet World Summer
July 10-12, 2001
Chicago, IL
http://www.internetworld.com

O'Reilly Open Source Convention
July 23-26, 2001
San Diego, CA
http://conferences.oreilly.com

10th USENIX Security Symposium
August 13-17, 2001
Washington, D.C.
http://www.usenix.org/events/sec01/

HunTEC Technology Expo & Conference
Hosted by Hunstville IEEE
August 17-18, 2001
Huntsville, AL
URL unkown at present

Computerfest
August 25-26, 2001
Dayton, OH
http://www.computerfest.com

LinuxWorld Conference & Expo
August 27-30, 2001
San Francisco, CA
http://www.linuxworldexpo.com

Linux Lunacy
Co-Produced by Linux Journal and Geek Cruises

Send a Friend LJ and Enter to Win a Cruise!
October 21-28, 2001
Eastern Caribbean
http://www.geekcruises.com

LinuxWorld Conference & Expo
October 30 - November 1, 2001
Frankfurt, Germany
http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/linuxworldexpo/index.html

5th Annual Linux Showcase & Conference
November 6-10, 2001
Oakland, CA
http://www.linuxshowcase.org/

Strictly e-Business Solutions Expo
November 7-8, 2001
Houston, TX
http://www.strictlyebusinessexpo.com

LINUX Business Expo
Co-located with COMDEX
November 12-16, 2001
Las Vegas, NV
http://www.linuxbusinessexpo.com

15th Systems Administration Conference/LISA 2001
December 2-7, 2001
San Diego, CA
http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2001


 Steeleye and Linux Networx Partnership

SteelEye Technology, Inc. have announced an OEM agreement with Linux NetworX, Inc.. Linux NetworX will offer SteelEye's LifeKeeper for Linux platform in the solutions it provides to eBusiness customers. The agreement also includes co-marketing and joint technical support activities. SteelEye's LifeKeeper monitors system and application health to maintain client accessibility and provide uninterrupted data access. LifeKeeper automatically restores application services by either restarting them locally or relocating them to another server in the cluster.


 AMD Showcases First VirtuHammer Simulator

AMD announced at LinuxWorld events in New York and Paris the first public demonstration of "VirtuHammer," the tool developed by AMD and Virtutech to allow software developers to write and test 64-bit programs for AMD's next-generation "Hammer" family of processors. AMD, along with SuSE have reported significant progress in the Open Source community's efforts to port Linux to AMD's x86-64 technology. The x86-64 technology extends the x86 instruction set to enable 64-bit computing and is the backbone behind AMD's planned 64-bit processor family, code-named "Hammer." AMD's "Hammer" family is planned for commercial introduction in the first half of 2002. For additional information on the x86-64 instruction set, visit http://www.x86-64.org


 LUGFEST IV

The Simi-Conejo Linux Users Group will be holding LUGFest IV on April 21st and 22nd, 2001, in Simi Valley, California. The LUGFest is intended to be an opportunity for Linux users to demo Linux (or other Open Source operating systems), Linux applications, attend seminars, and BOF (Birds Of a Feather) sessions. Additionally, Linux vendors may participate and show off their wares. For more info, to register for LFIV, or to volunteer to do a demo, contact gareth@wiked.org, or visit the LUGFest web-site.


 CLIQ 2001 Conference and Exhibit

Colorado Linux Info Quest - CLIQ have announced sponsorship from Hewlett Packard, XFree86 and GNOME (among others) for CLIQ2001 (March 30th). Daryll Strauss (VA Linux, XFree86) and Havoc Pennington (Red Hat, GTK+ and GNOME) have agreed to speak at the event which will take place March 29th-30th at the Denver Marriott Tech Center. All scheduled talks and the exhibit floor are scheduled for the 30th, with early registration and a few smaller informal events expected on the 29th.


 Linux Links

The Duke of URL has some links which may appeal to you:

The folks on Slashdot have featured the following stories during the past month:

Three articles on The Register which may be of interest:

Userlocal.com offer a site focusing mostly on Slackware Linux, though much of the information is useful for all Linux users.

OSOpinion take a look at MS .net and Linux: whether Microsoft will have Corel port .NET to Linux, and how the possible antitrust split of MS may affect this. The hurried sale of the shares reported by Linux Today and discussed on Slashdot, just makes the story more fascinating. One to watch.

Rainer Gerhards has written an article on integrating Windows NT into a Unix syslog based management system (having Windows reporting to Unix via Syslog).

Linux Today have an overview of Berlin (a possible future alternative to X). You can get a bit more info from TAG in our very own LG issue 61 here.


Software Announcements


 IBM Personalization Software for Linux Announced

IBM have announced that the latest version of its WebSphere Personalization software now supports Linux. This software enables businesses to focus their websites more precisely at their individual users through "personalization", and then to optimise this process through analysis of activity. For more information on Websphere and Personalization and IBM/Linux follow the links.


 Partnership to create Comprehensive Motif GUI Solution on Linux for Enterprises

Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc. and Sitraka Software are entering into a partnership focusing on their BX PRO and XRT PDS Motif development products. ICS has developed a kit that allows integration of Sitraka's XRT PDS with their own BX PRO product, and have now arranged a Reseller agreement with Sitraka for XRT PDS. With this agreement, ICS can now claim to offer the largest selection of Motif development tools on UNIX and Linux systems. This solution is shipping on various platforms, including Linux (Intel).


 2netFX and Linux NetworX to Offer Streaming Server Solution

The solution integrates the 2netFX ThunderCast Server and StreamRider Client Player software with Linux NetworX Evolicity clusters. The StreamRider client will be offered on the Linux NetworX Evolocity 1240s. Four independent CPUs will share the Web serving workload through a software-level load balancer. If one compute module should fail, the others continue providing services, providing maximum system uptime. Clustering technology offers advantages in redundancy and scalability.


 Dell Linux Initiatives

Dell has announced its intention to offer Borland Kylix, to U.S. customers of its Dell Precision Workstations beginning in February. Borland Kylix is a development environment enabling Linux developers to build and deliver powerful desktop, client-server, database and Apache Web-based applications.
Dell has also announced that select components of its OpenManage server management suite of tools are available for use with Red Hat based servers. Dell OpenManage Server Assistant for Linux supports the installation of Red Hat Linux 6.2 and 7 and all of the latest drivers, making it easier to install the Linux operating system as well as reducing server setup time.


 VMware and the NSA Team to Build Advanced Secure Computer Systems

VMware, Inc. have announced a cooperative research and development agreement for a joint initiative with the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) to enhance and certify the security of VMware's virtual machine technology. The project will enable government users to safely use commercial off-the-shelf software for certain sensitive or classified applications and environments. NSA's project NetTop plans to use security enhanced virtual machines as building blocks for applications requiring separation of information domains, such as providing secure remote access to classified computer networks over the Internet. VMware plans to incorporate the security enhancements resulting from the agreement in its future product releases. Details of the NetTop project are available online in PDF format.


 Arkeia Enterprise Backup Software Included in SuSE eMail Server II

Knox Software have informed us that the Free Version of their flagship product, Arkeia, is included into SuSE's 2nd Generation eMail Server II. The SuSE eMail Server II is an Open Source solution which administrates mail on a central server, and is in accordance with the IMAP standard. Arkeia 4.2 provides incremental and full backups, scheduled or on demand, and preserves directory structure, registry, symbolic links and special attributes.


Copyright © 2001, Michael Conry and the Editors of Linux Gazette.
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Published in Issue 64 of Linux Gazette, March 2001
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