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Um, that was Kondara, and they actually had some innovations of their own (complete system internationalization and language switching without reboot, and not just KDE) but not enough to justify their existence.

But for all the Caldera haters: Volution and OpenSLP have the potential to change corporate perception of Linux, and the way infrastructure is set up.

I recomend a Sun Sparcstation SLC or XLC. It is basically a complete diskless SPARC integrated with a 17" black and white monitor. A plus is that there is no fan involved.

I boot mine from my Linux box using the SLXT package (based on a linux kernel) and it works well. The only downside is that it takes several minutes to boot over the network. There's an (out of date) article about it at http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue27/little.html
An alternative to SLXT is XKernel

Steve.

There is a linux based Palm SDK and emulator available. Here's an intro on Linux Gazette. You can download tools and documentation from the Palm developer page. You can do all your programming on linux with the familiar gnu tools, do some testing with the emulator, and then download them to the Palm for more in depth testing.

With all due respect to other web-based Tradewars attempts like BlackNova, the most advanced and playable Tradewars on the web is:

Merchant Empires.

Merchant Empires is Open Source software.

Here is the SourceForge Merchant Empires site.

Here is an article that appeared in the latest Linux Gazette on Merchant Empires.

http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue62/silva.html

I can't wait for my tuner card to get here.

All your dangifiknow are belong to us.

For comparision of JFS, XFS, Ext3, and ReiserFs see http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue55/florido.html

Tough I'm not a specialist at all, I read an interesting article on it at Linuxgazette . Interesting technical information (datastructures etc...)
By the way, I got the link in a comment here at slashdot (some time ago).

Tough I'm not a specialist at all, I read an interesting article on it at Linuxgazette . Interesting technical information (datastructures etc...)
By the way, I got the link in a comment here at slashdot (some time ago).

The Red Hat statement needs more context. The Red Hat 7.0 Getting Started Guide mentions the 1991 start of Linux. The 6.0 Guide recognized there were 100,000 Linux users in 1994 when Red Hat started. This Linux timeline refers to 100,000 Linux users in December 1993 -- with a link to a missing Red Hat page. Note that Slackware started in 1993. Is there a Linux timeline?

Haven't we had this discussion umpteen times before? Such as... two days ago? There's even a link to a discussion on the four competing filesystems. Sheesh. Flogging the dead horse.

i dont know if anyone is interessted in this but there is a great article on journaling filesystems at linux gazette.

it explains different features and concepts related to the 4 different journaling filesystems. XFS, JFS, Ext3 and ReiserFS.

i dont know if anyone is interessted in this but there is a great article on journaling filesystems at linux gazette.

it explains different features and concepts related to the 4 different journaling filesystems. XFS, JFS, Ext3 and ReiserFS.

• LinuxForKids.Org
• Using Linux to Teach Kids How to Program. It's good Logic practice.

http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue34/v ertes.html
http://www.linu xworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-05/lw-05-ramparts_p. html
http://www.secu rityfocus.com/focus/linux/articles/linux-securing. html
http://www.isr.umd.edu/~dani elf/Linux/securinglinux.html
http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~jjasen1/unix/ linux.html

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Kiro

For more information on IMAP, you can read this Linux Gazette article I wrote two years ago on the subject. It's a bit dated but still mostly relevant.

Evolution, of course, supports IMAP. I switched to mutt after the 1.2 release added decent IMAP support. I urge you, if you are at all concerned about getting at your mail, to switch to IMAP today and put all those worries behind you forever.

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Cool! Where do I find the -$3500 deal? ;-)

Let me point out an article I liked from Linux Gazette on how to build your own inexpensive Alpha. It's almost 2 years old, so some of the details aren't as relevant, but I think some of the stuff explaining the gotchas of the Alpha platform for someone used to x86 (like me) are still informative.

I still want to actually build my own Alpha... as the Penguin-Ferrari article points out, we need diversity, and anyway I like messing with different stuff. Anybody know of more recent articles, or have personal experiences to offer?

Cool! Where do I find the -$3500 deal? ;-)

Let me point out an article I liked from Linux Gazette on how to build your own inexpensive Alpha. It's almost 2 years old, so some of the details aren't as relevant, but I think some of the stuff explaining the gotchas of the Alpha platform for someone used to x86 (like me) are still informative.

I still want to actually build my own Alpha... as the Penguin-Ferrari article points out, we need diversity, and anyway I like messing with different stuff. Anybody know of more recent articles, or have personal experiences to offer?

Unfortunately, when they're Anonymous Cowards, it gets a bit harder to tell if you've got:

1. Someone that is being honest, that has known biases
2. Someone that is being dishonest, with well-known biases
3. Someone that is being honest, but where you can only infer indirectly what their biases are, or
4. Someone that is being downright dishonest, and perhaps trying to hide their biases.

Unfortunately, as you head down this list, there is a tendancy for honesty to diminish, as well as the usefulness of the information.

The issue isn't new; it was pretty evident in some reviews of LinuxCAD, that there were "reviewers" that may not have been at arms length from the "producers." Another review notes, about the "testimonials," that:

Strangely, these testimonials used the same poor english expression as whoever wrote the LinuxCAD advertisement.

It was quite entertaining when Linux Gazette published an Official Reaction of Software Forge Inc. to "LinuxCAD Review"; I expressed in LG issue 42 that I appreciated their restraint in not using a spell-checker...

No, I haven't much use for Anonymous Cowards...

Unfortunately, when they're Anonymous Cowards, it gets a bit harder to tell if you've got:

1. Someone that is being honest, that has known biases
2. Someone that is being dishonest, with well-known biases
3. Someone that is being honest, but where you can only infer indirectly what their biases are, or
4. Someone that is being downright dishonest, and perhaps trying to hide their biases.

Unfortunately, as you head down this list, there is a tendancy for honesty to diminish, as well as the usefulness of the information.

The issue isn't new; it was pretty evident in some reviews of LinuxCAD, that there were "reviewers" that may not have been at arms length from the "producers." Another review notes, about the "testimonials," that:

Strangely, these testimonials used the same poor english expression as whoever wrote the LinuxCAD advertisement.

It was quite entertaining when Linux Gazette published an Official Reaction of Software Forge Inc. to "LinuxCAD Review"; I expressed in LG issue 42 that I appreciated their restraint in not using a spell-checker...

No, I haven't much use for Anonymous Cowards...

Yes, then the etexts could be converted into HTML, RTF, PDF, PS, or even printed out and the pages bound into a real book (see my article on Micro Publishing in Linux Gazette Issue 47.)

I'm not sure how the google.com/linux is different from a regular search on just google.com.

What are the best places to look for linux info? I personally do

1) deja.com first, extremely useful for hardware and troubleshooting reports

2) altavista, with a +whole +bunch of +pluses to make sure the word is included.

3) Google - the trouble with google is that it gives the same site 20 times in a row on the first 2 pages, whereas altavista has better distribution, but lower relevance.

4) redhat.com's mailing list archives - I used to try here a while ago, but I guess my iterative mechanisms have changed habits.

5) The linuxgazette.com search engine. Actually this is one I would rate 2 or 3, but I don't want to change the numbers after all this typing, esp. since I'm getting used to the aftereffects of the hair dryer thawing....

Hmmm...are these pretty typical of the /. crowd? Or did I miss a kickass search site?

The Wooly Mammoth.

Also, I found the XDM man pages totally incomprehensible (no, I'm not a newbie. They really are totally incomprehensible!). I have to say, just set up KDM, run the kdmconfig (or whatever the command is) program, and you're on your way.

Oh yeah, this is a wee bit out of date, but if you want to go it the old fashioned way, here's a page you should look at. This is certainly a great way to get use out of old boxes. I have a P75 that I use for just this purpose. It runs the whole desktop and all it's apps off my workstation. Very nice.
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"This moon-cheese will make me very rich! Very rich indeed!

Hey, thanks for putting me on to the Happy Hacking keyboard... I just found a Linux Gazette review on it, and it appears to be just what I've been looking for in a new keyboard! I really miss my old Mac LC keyboard because of its size (and even that had a keypad). This has Esc and Ctrl in the "right" places (compared to the Sun I use at school), as has been said, and I couldn't get that on my Mac; I had tried to remap Control on my Mac keyboard, but ran into the "Control Lock" problem---Macs do the locking in hardware for their Caps Lock keys, so that you can remap them, but they still lock! :(

Anyway, as I said, thanks for pointing this one out. I think I'll be contacting the good folks at PFU America pretty soon. (So maybe they should thank you, too. ;)

It's only partially true that "Fonts on the linux desktop look so yuck!" Some of the fonts that come with Linux distributions do yes, but I always install a TTF font server that is run automaticly with X. The truth is that there isn't a lot of "free" good looking fonts yet.

my /etc/inittab has

# Run the TrueType font server in runlevel 5
xf:5:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/xfstt

You can read about the xfstt fontserver here!

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Why pay for drugs when you can get Linux for free ?

Second, you may have felt overwhelmed by all the HOWTOs available at the Linux Documentation Project, and you might have missed a few of the handier ones. Well, <FONT FACE="large, friendly letters">DON'T PANIC!</FONT> :-) As a former "dos junkie", you'd probably get the most initial mileage out of the From DOS/Windows to Linux HOWTO. I also recommend the Linux Gazette, which seems aimed at new Linux users and often contains a whole lot of handy tips and tricks that will sometimes make your life simpler.

As a former DOS junkie myself (who still occasionally amazes Win95 users with my knowledge of CONFIG.SYS and "DOS=HIGH,UMB" and so on) I'll predict that once you get used to Linux's quirks (and yes, it does have a few), you'll feel right at home. It may take a year or two (it did for me), but after a couple of years, you'll wonder how you could have used anything else.

Have fun, and feel free to E-mail me if you have any questions.
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When Sun migrated from SunView to X in SunOS 4, they developed XView, a GUI toolkit for X which was mostly SunView compatible. Sun Microsystems then stopped active development of XView and became an early member of the open-source community when they released the entire source code and documentation for the XView toolkit under a liberal X-style license. XView was previously proprietary. Today, although XView is mostly defunct, many Linux distributions still have the XView toolkit together with Sun's excellently documented example programs (often in /usr/src/xview). Jazz, the first ever Linux MIDI sequencer, was initially written using XView -- Linux Gazette, Vol.12, 1996. and Jazz v2.6 source code.

The closest successor to the XView style, and arguably the easiest GUI widget set for beginners, is probably EZWGL.

There's an article in Linux Gazette to help you build that Multia. It's called Personal Linux/Alpha System: 64 bits for Under $500.

DynDNS was terrific, that's what it was. I'm dialing in on a school account, and it used to be that I could have my Linux box set up as terrania.dyn.ml.org so that I could telnet into it from the computer lab or wherever and check my mail, or run webpages or chatservers on it. But then it went away, sigh...now I have a script kludge that emails the current IP address to another account that I can check and use to telnete in, but it's just not the same.

Of course, ML's DYNDNS service was never the most reliable thing in the world to begin with...if DHS can do better, I'll be very, very happy about things.

A couple of notes...Linux Gazette had an article about using DynDNS services, complete with scripts, in one of their back issues--I think it was the January one. There is a commercial DynDNS service, DynDNS.Com, that charges $25 a year for DynDNS service, too.

Also, for the DHS folks...did you know that there is a Dynamic IP hosting system for Linux out there? It's called GnuDIP--check Freshmeat for it. I haven't looked at it myself, but maybe it'll have some stuff you can use in it.

Good luck, and I have to say I can't wait 'til I can have terrania.(dyn.)dhs.org! :)

There was a writeup in the Linux Gazette on this a few months ago; you can find it at http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue34/jachim.html . They basically added a secondary IDE controller to a normal Linux PC, for a total of 4 ide channels, and filled all the spare IDE units with CDRom drives for a total of 7 cdroms and whatever fit on the boot drive served. The biggest trick was probably finding a large enough case, but we're all getting good at that by now, right? By combining this approach with the first one suggested (copying CD contents to a big honkin IDE hard drive) you could get an extremely large amount of storage on line for very little money. And yes, Virginia, performance under heavy load would suck, and no you would not want to do something silly like this with your main mail, home directory, or SQL server; with a reasonable amount of traffic the machine's usefulness for other tasks would become extremely limited due to the amount of interrupt activity generated by those 4 IDE channels. However, it would be one very cost effective way to get a large amount of data dependably available and on-line.

$.02

One of the NewsBytes refers to a petition that Americans here would probably want to sign...