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KDE2 won't be in the official Debian archive for Potato

"Considering how many people have been asking for KDE packages in Debian I expect that we will have packages within 2 weeks of the Qt/UNIX 2.2 release." - Wicchert Ackerman, Debian project leader, in an article on Debian's response to Trolltech's GPL announcement.
So at least a package will be available to anyone who can type apt-get. =)
- Derwen

You give a well-known example, and what does it get you?

Advocacy.

Mention Windows 2000, they'll advocate Be.
Mention MS Word, they'll advocate Star Office.
Mention KDE, they'll advocate Gnome (yes, even now).

There are worthy alternatives to the most popular options, but why do folks feel compelled to advocate them ceacelessly? It gets old fast. . .

Sorry, the quotes were from the end of the article, I should have made that more clear.

LinuxPlanet has a pretty good article about the default security in all or most Linux distributions here.

It is about the lack of default security in most distros.

Why is it that most distributions isn't made secure by default? (like OpenBSD, which I have heard is pretty secure by default)

Is it convinience? (just turn on "everything", then the user don't have to bother with starting any services)

I know that you can choose the security level when installing the Mandrake distro - does anybody know how secure it is if you choose "paranoid" (the most secure), or which level you have to choose to make it pretty secure by default?

There is also a nice bit of flame war starting journalism about the whole thing available here. Interesting reading...

I dont know what version of RedHat you used but 6.2. has the option to just install, Kde OR Gnome or try a server install, you are not forced to install both.

If you want just the basics get one of the "Linux on a floppy" distributions, and add stuff form there. compiling your own kernel as shown on "Linux from scratch" would be overkill for what you seem to want.

"Seek and thou shalt find", if you had made an effort to search then you might have seen this:
Trustix
http://www.icewalk.com/softlib/app/app_01091.html
or Bastille linux

kha0s
www.kha0s.org

Distributors are listening, but they should not underestimate the importance of marketing and gaining mindshare (case in point is the success of micro$oft).

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Here's LinuxPlanet's Review.

The summary page sounds pretty positive. Their two criticisms are relatively minor.

- They used their own partition tool and scheme and then complain they got an unexpected out of disk space error (no-one in this age of 40G drives has any business creating 100M partitions and expect to install a whole OS on it)

- CLOS didn't recognize their LAN card. I use the same LAN card and CLOS1.1 didn't have a problem with it. However, the card only marginally supports Linux, in that it uses a Tulip OEM chipset that there is a Linux driver for. The card doesn't claim to be plug-n-play for Linux.

Overall they liked the distro for current Windows users, and conclude: "The Win98 installation living on the same computer has a doubtful future once 'The Sims' has worn out its welcome."
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Here's LinuxPlanet's Review.

The summary page sounds pretty positive. Their two criticisms are relatively minor.

- They used their own partition tool and scheme and then complain they got an unexpected out of disk space error (no-one in this age of 40G drives has any business creating 100M partitions and expect to install a whole OS on it)

- CLOS didn't recognize their LAN card. I use the same LAN card and CLOS1.1 didn't have a problem with it. However, the card only marginally supports Linux, in that it uses a Tulip OEM chipset that there is a Linux driver for. The card doesn't claim to be plug-n-play for Linux.

Overall they liked the distro for current Windows users, and conclude: "The Win98 installation living on the same computer has a doubtful future once 'The Sims' has worn out its welcome."
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Oh, and all those Beowulf posts are a little pointless methinks.

wrighty.

LinuxPlanet has just postet an article about this here.

IBM has just held an installfest which they talk about, and they talk with Peter McCaffrey, System/390 Program Director and it looks like IBM is pretty serious about it.

They also talks about what classes of applications performs well on their mainframe and about possible customers.

LinuxPlanet has just postet an article about this here.

IBM has just held an installfest which they talk about, and they talk with Peter McCaffrey, System/390 Program Director and it looks like IBM is pretty serious about it.

They also talks about what classes of applications performs well on their mainframe and about possible customers.

I wonder if IBM needs beta testers (-: I'd re-wire my house if they sent me a demo unit.

You'd probably hae to get rid of that closet in the corner to fit it into your bedroom. This is not the type of machine to fit under your desk (unless you like your desk 8ft off the ground that is :-) ).

That said, you're probably a little too late. IBM has been helping companies set up Linux (Suse 6.4 I believe) on their S/390's during July so I think that the boat has sailed. Still they'll be playing with the apps for a while yet - I know DB2 is about to be used on that platform, which will be interesting. I'm certain there will be more news sooner or later as well.

Cheers,

Toby Haynes.

First, there's "S/390: The Linux Dream Machine, the article referring to Linux on the s/390 as "a herd of forty thousand raptors"

Then we have The Iron Penguin, coverage at linuxworld

Finally, here's IBM Runs 41,000 Copies of Linux on Mainframe, the original slashdot article.

What was realy funy was that IBM had a huge planetwide "Linux/390 Install fest" over the last few weaks.

This I see as a nice thing:

=== Cut ===
General system improvements:
o FHS compliant packaging of files
/usr/man is now /usr/share/man
/usr/doc is now /usr/share/doc
/usr/info is now /usr/share/info
See http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ for more information
=== Cut ===

What about the rest? Ex. KDE - where does that get installed?

Read this article for more info about what I'm talking about.

Why Sun should GPL StarOffice.

:^)

Zach Frey

The moment I read the headline, I recalled an article on slashdot some time ago, wherein was referred to an article on LinuxPlanet. The FSF had announced that there would be a lawsuit or a major softwarehouse would have to open up its software.

Could this be it?

obDisclaimer: I don't represent internet.com or LinuxToday. Anyone who says I tried is full of it.

I post to LinuxToday on a daily basis (my user name is "mhall"), and I write for LinuxPlanet (you can also l ook at my article history. My status in both relationships is that of a freelancer ("independent contractor").

There is a policy against announcing new site launches. I don't know when it was enacted because I'm fairly new to LinuxToday. I can say, however, that we routinely reject new site announcements. If one gets posted, it was a mistake.

There's another side of the coin, though, and one which the person posting the initial question could have followed: part of the LinuxToday "family" is the site LinuxPR, which allows anyone with a Linux-related business or site to join at no cost.

By signing up for LinuxPR, anyone posting a Linux-related press release (new product announcement, conference, or, most important to this case, site launch) gets their press release posted not only on the main page of LinuxPR, but on the front page of LinuxToday. Press releases are posted on a frequent basis as we're able. My own personal habit is to look in on the press releases several times an hour while I'm posting stories. I even take the step of correcting bad URL's and cleaning up some of the more egregious grammar problems.

Second, sites doing more than just announcing their existence are always welcome to use the LinuxToday contribute form.

Spend a few minutes looking at LinuxToday, please. Where do the stories come from? They come from other sites. How much of each story do we carry before pointing the reader to the rest of it? Seldom more than three or four paragraphs. When we have a reciprocal agreement with an organization like VNUNet or when the story is run by another internet.com site that isn't in the Linux channel we'll run the whole thing (which, when you think about it, is actually limiting the number of banners the internet.com site is going to move.) If anything, LinuxToday provides a means by which some smaller Linux-related sites can get more traffic than they might have before we thoughtfully provided a link to their story along with a few paragraphs of "teaser" to get the reader's curiosity up.

If LinuxToday were following an "anti-other-Linux-sites" policy, it would soon dry up and blow away. The strength of the site is the near-constant flow of news from around (and outside) the Linux community.

Finally, (and because this is the part most people will feel the most comfortable ignoring, because I'm talking about my client):

Despite several months of working on LinuxToday, I have never felt particularly "watched over" by internet.com. The other editors on the site and its primary programmer are all Linux enthusiasts who are interested in providing a good service to the Linux community. I've never knowingly withheld a story for any reason other than the fact we've already covered it ad nauseum or that it should be submitted as a press release because it's nothing more than an attempt to sell something (including eyeballs).

When I first threw in my lot with LinuxToday and LinuxPlanet, I had some concerns about the nature of the entity that owned them. My own roots in Linux go back over four years, and I've been a UNIX enthusiast for more than twice that time. I've contributed documentation to a major open free software product under the copyleft. I love Linux, and I love the community surrounding it. I get up each day at 6 a.m. to start posting on LinuxToday, and my thoughts are not to how well the money's flowing that day, but how much information is being moved to readers. When I set fingers to keyboard for a story on LinuxPlanet, it isn't because I'm thrilled at the prospect of creating revenue, it's because I hope I can help people make decisions, or inform them in some way. The people I work with (who are in a more durable relationship with internet.com than I) have shown the same instincts and concern for the Linux community.

There may be a site worthy of paranoia and suspicion, but I don't think LinuxToday is it.

Though it should not require reiteration, I'll note once more that I don't speak for any of the entities mentioned in this post besides myself. I'm just a freelancer.

Kind regards,

Michael
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Michael Hall
Charlottesville, Virginia

Is this the same PC Expo talked about in this article? Which one's true? In this article they claim "fealty to Microsoft is the exception" and that everyone was talking about Linux. Surely things can't be THAT polar!

Actually, it's not yet known whether the GPL will legally be considered a contract, a copyright license, or both. This was discussed in the article linked from a recent Slashdot story.

So, the GPL may be affected by UCITA. Of course, the GPL disclaims warranties, so it's in the clear in that respect.

Still, the death of free software would almost be worthwhile if it meant Microsoft had to comply with strict software warranty laws. :-)

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dude, did you read that article from linuxplanet awhile back? Twas awesome! If you thought that article was awesome, check out this sweet piece of hardware.

Some may be interested in comparisons of the major Open Source databases. This article at LinuxPlanet has some good information.

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MySQL versus PostgreSQL was covered on Slashdot back in August 1999...

http://slashdot.org/askslash dot/99/08/10/0416205.shtml

and LinuxPlanet has an Open Source database comparison.

http://www.linuxplanet.com/lin uxplanet/reviews/204/3

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Nope not halucinating. Here's the link posted on slashdot one month ago:

http://www.linuxplanet.com/l inuxplanet/reports/1532/1/

Page 4 of the article also references the guy at Dimension. Sounds like some marketing guy at IBM decided that they need to put it back into the spotlight with the IBM marketing machine behind it.

• Article in LinuxPlanet
• Princeton Linux for S/390 site
• Marist College Linux for S/390 site
• IBM's Linux for S/390 site

There are more given in the LinuxPlanet article (which is where I got the other links).

Assuming you weren't just attempting humor and need to learn quite a bit more about how mainframes work, go read this very interesting piece at linuxplanet.com about running virtual machines on mainframes and running other OS's on those virtual machines. It's several pages long but well worth the effort.
IBM's mainframe operating systems will stay right there on the mainframes.

Charles Crystle, the founder of Chili!Soft, is using his $15 million from the sale to set up community technology labs in Nicaraugua and opening a musicians' incubator in Silicon Alley -- what he's doing is the real story. You can see what he's doing here.

Running C++ code originally written for PowerPC on a Linux Platform? Great, let's do that but only if using Big Iron: http://www.linuxplanet.com/l inuxplanet/reports/1532/1/

Read the full thing here.

I spoted an article at NewsAlert. Most Linux News sites, including LinuxPlanet, also has articles on the subject.

First, this is not a web-only service. We do like to provide web interfaces to as much as possible, but we do realize that for some things, program compliation and testing included, nothing can substitute for shell access.

A lot of people are asking about other hardware architectures and OS's. For now, the Compile Farm is i386 based, and contains several Linux distributions and FreeBSD. This does not mean that we have ruled out other possibilities. This is just another step in what we hope can be an expanding feature set for Open Source developers on SourceForge.

There is a lot of setup involved in something like this Compile Farm, not the least of which is having thousands of skilled Open Source developers with shell accounts on a set of boxes. We're attempting to keep things as secure as possible while also offering enough features to make this thing useful. One reason for the limited number of distributions/architectures/OS's now is the limitation of variables in a very complex system. Hopefully, we can work out the kinks in this system soon so that it can become a valuable resource to developers who might not otherwise have the capability of getting their hands on so many different machines.

Please be patient as we test this new system. We're definately open to criticism, but please also be constructive with it so that we can continue to improve these services. Thanks to all of the SourceForge users who have contributed patches, criticism, and helpful suggestions. Every day my confidence in the Open Source model increases...

LinuxPlanet has a step-by-step ipchains installation map at http://www.linuxplanet.com /linuxplanet/tutorials/1241/1/. It's designed for those people who want multiple machines on a single internet connection, but it talks somewhat about securing the connection and using ip masquerading.

This is the 'foundation' level package, and is a free download. Also available for Windows and Solaris.

There used to be a page for finding driver support in Linux here, but it appears to have disappeared for the time being. If you find it again. Can you post it up please.

Digital TV rocks. Well the technology does, much of the content sucks hard. I work for Sky, developing an application for digital TV, but wouldn't actually watch Sky TV out of choice. Some of the stuff that we have in R&D will blow your sox off when it's released. Not saying any more, but there are some great set top box apps being developed.

(tip - if you're thinking of getting Sky Digital, hold out for the new silver Panasonic STB)

There's also a new article on Linux Planet about Linux being used bu the BBC for digital broadcasting, particularly for their new digital text service. I know where my CV (resume) is going next.

Bravo, Jon! Well-written and on target.

My (very) limited experience agrees with this. I just got my first on-line publication this week (warning: shameless self-promotion!) at linuxplanet.com, and already I've received some very high-quality constructive criticism (thanks, Ben!) which would have greatly improved the article if I had been able to incorporate it first.

My college writing teacher always insisted that the best way to improve a piece of writing was (a) thorough, ruthless review followed by (b) several revisions. This was before the web had caught on. The internet scales these possibilites for review on a scale impractical just a few years ago.

As iron sharpens iron,
so one man sharpens another.
-- Proverbs 27:17 (NIV)