IBackup releases web based backup software for Linux, Dec 21, 2000

IBackup,a division of Pro Softnet Corp. has released Smart-IB plus, a scheduler program that is now compatible with Linux. With smart-IB plus, users can schedule un-attended backups from their linux machines to their web based IBackup accounts.

The Center for Internet Security members are working together to create a rating system for Solaris, Linux and Windows 2000

The Berkeley National Laboratory is implementing a 40-node Linux cluster to pursue its Drosophila Genome Project

Oracle will join the group of those who offer online development enviroments

TWiki Web allows you to set up a dynamic intranet site and a knowledge base; manage documents and collaborate with your community by using just a web browser. TWiki announced a new version of it's popular collaboration tool. TWiki Web looks and feels like a normal Intranet or Internet web site. In addition, there is an Edit link on every page to change or create content. The tool is a Perl CGI script that takes text input, hyperlinks it and converts it to HTML on the fly. Features include automatic link generation, full text search, page revision control, authorization based on groups, email notification of changes, file attachments to web pages, and more. Get more details at http://TWiki.org/ and in the feature article of the Web Techniques magazine, Corporate Collaboration With TWiki, http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2000/12/thoeny/ "TWiki Web is designed to eliminate the 'one webmaster syndrome' where intranet content is outdated and insufficient" said Peter Thoeny, the author of TWiki Web. "Empowering employees to make changes to the intranet, combined with a peer review of content makes sure that content is up to date and accurate. Many major companies in the telecommunication and consumer product industries depend on TWiki Web to streamline the information flow between the corporate offices." "Peter's message prompted me to revisit TWiki and boy, is it powerful" said Jon Udell, Byte Magazine's former executive editor. "Among other things, TWiki eases one of the concerns about classic Wiki, which is that the radically egalitarian "edit this page" scheme leaves no change log. TWiki includes powerful revision support. Every change leaves a footprint, and you can follow these easily and effectively." "We are using TWiki very successfully in a distributed environment" said David Attwood, System Architect at Ultra SBS, a large UK based defence organization, "initial user reactions were 'so what' now it's the most popular tool in our shared data environment!" The new TWiki version 01 Dec 2000 includes, among other enhancements, fine grained access control with authorization based on groups, advanced search features, and some security fixes. TWiki is available for download from the TWiki web-site. For more information, contact: Peter Thoeny, Peter@Thoeny.com Nicholas Lee, nj.lee@plumtree.co.nz http://TWiki.org/

Open source OS vendors are cashing in on point-of-sale systems at department stores

The Norwegian software maker has made its first free browser available for download; will Linux, Mac OS, and BeOS versions be next?

Red Flag Software Co., one of China's Linux-based software developers, has decided to develop a Portuguese version of Linux operating system. The company signed a relevant agreement recently with the government-funded Macao Productivity and Technology Transfer Center to jointly develop the Portuguese version.

Linux wins the BBspot Technical Excellence Award in an OS showdown against Windows 2000.

The Apache Software Foundation on Monday released the beta version of Batik 1.0, a toolkit that allows developers to work with the Scalable Vector Graphics specification on the Java platform

Adopting a strategy made popular by more radical companies, Hewlett-Packard has hired open-source advocate Bruce Perens to give the company a deeper view of the workings of Linux and other open-source software.

Eazel, one of the shining hopes for establishing Linux on corporate desktops, will show off the latest version of its Nautilus graphical/network environment this week and announce a partnership with Dell, which is claiming a stake in the company.

In this interview, Ritchie talks about the future of C and the C99 standard, discusses Plan 9, and offers advice to would-be authors of programming languages.

The Norwegian software maker will next week take the wraps off Opera 5 for Windows - its first free browser

Korean software developer has developed the world's 'first embedded-Linux smart phone'. Still at demo stage, the IMT-2000 smart phone (brand name Palmi - which may well upset a certain PDA maker) is the outcome of a joint project between PalmPalm Technology SK Telecom and Seoul National University.

Antivirus software vendors on Friday warned of a new e-mail worm that appears to promote the Linux operating system

Dell Computer has invested in Eazel, a company devoted to making Linux easier for average computer users, and will include its software on Linux desktop and laptop computers

MusicMatch Inc. has announced the beta version of its Jukebox for Linux software, which allows sites to offer viewers the ability to download MP3 audio files on Linux programs.

Joe Barr revisits his LUG's participation in a Linux adult education course and hears arguments on whether or not to teach in a CLI environment

If you think Linux is the choice of geeks only, think again. Many of the large software vendors are now shipping Linux versions of their software.

Linux has come from nowhere in two years to occupy nearly 30% of the floor area at Sands.

On the heels of record-setting attendance at their San Jose, California event, IDG World Expo has announced that registration is now open for the next LinuxWorld Conference & Expo to be held in New York City, January 30th to February 2nd, 2001.

Finnish software revolutionary Linus Torvalds, the free-wheeling inventor of the Linux operating system, has agreed to write an insiders account of the grass-roots crusade he began.

Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc. (ICS), the leading supplier of commercial Motif® products and support, and Turbolinux, Inc., the leader in high-performance Linux for Internet infrastructure solutions, today announced immediate availability of Open Motif for Intel's forthcoming Itanium processor-based systems. This is the first port of Motif, the industry standard GUI toolkit for UNIX applications, for IA64 Linux on Intel Itanium systems. Most mission-critical applications that run on UNIX use Motif as an integral part of their application. Port can be downloaded for free at: http://www.motifzone.net/download/dldform.php Full announcement is available at: http://www.ics.com/about/whatshot/press_releases/motif64.html

The Random Factory is pleased to announce the availability of the first release in our "Linux for Biotechnology" series. "Linux for Biotechnology - Volume 1" includes over 1Gb of Biotechnology related software, all precompiled for Linux (x86), in easy to install RPM format. A range of state-of-the-art tools for sequence analysis, molecular visualization and modelling, and much more. Tasks which previously required high-end scientific workstations, and expensive single-function commercial software, can now be performed using commodity PC hardware and "Linux for Biotechnology". Full details and ordering information are available at our website http://www.randomfactory.com/lfb/lfb.html The Random Factory also produces the "Linux for Astronomy" series, now in it's 4th release (a 2 cd set comprising V5/6).

Haancom Linux has signed an agreement with a Chinese computer maker to provide 500,000 copies of its Linux-based software.

Compaq Computer Corp. has released a pair of ProLiant servers that come preloaded with Red Hat Inc.'s version of Linux, fulfilling a promise made last summer that the open-source operating system would start being bundled with some of its machines.

In their first successful joint commercial venture, Incyte and SGI have jointly installed a Linux-based bioinformatics systems at Bristol-Myers Squibb, SGI announced Tuesday

Bruce Momjian, vice president of database development for Great Bridge LLC, has been named a featured speaker at the fall 2000 Linux Conference in Japan, a hotbed for open source technologies. Momjian will discuss the history of PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database system, which thousands of Japanese businesses already use as core infrastructure for their Web-based applications.

MusicMatch Inc., a maker of software for storing and playing music on personal computers, has released a test version of its "Jukebox" for Linux. The move makes privately held MusicMatch the first major company to offer a mainstream jukebox for Linux,

The New Zealand Army is among a growing band turning to open source operating system Linux, using it to stage virtual combats

Thanks to its reliability and adherence to open standards, Linux is moving steadily into the business market.

To give customers a choice of operating systems for its Bluetooth-enabled cable solutions, Texas Instruments Incorporated entered into an agreement with Jungo Software Technologies Inc. to add Jungo's Linux residential gateway software onto TI's broadband cable modems.

VA reported a net loss of $7 million, or 15 cents per share, for the quarter that ended Oct. 27. In the same period last year, the company lost $7.2 million, or 27 cents per share.

Aldec Inc., a longtime provider of FPGA design tools, will make its first foray into the ASIC market this week with Riviera, a Linux-based mixed-language simulator. Riviera simulates VHDL, Verilog and EDIF and comes with an HDL editor and source-level debugger.

Exterprise Inc.'s new customer for its electronic marketplace software will provide a place for Linux companies to buy and sell their products and services.

Inprise Corp. will announce, at Comdex in Las Vegas this week, plans to release the source code of its Kylix Linux rapid application development tool to the GNOME Foundation.

he U.S. presidential race hinges on the electoral outcome in Florida, where the difference is being measured in hundreds out of the millions of votes submitted -- some of which were ballots cast over the Internet.

SOT, the publisher of Best Linux, announced today the appointment of Phil Heenan to the position of Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Heenan has 23 years experience in business and the IT industry, including six years as a senior executive in Digital Equipment Corporation in Australia. He has been involved with the Internet and e-commerce for the past ten years and has worked with major telecommunications companies in the development of e-commerce opportunities.

The recent court-ordered shutdown of the Treasure Trove Web site, a valuable source of computer algorithms for programmers, stunned the open source community. But the move also has important legal implications for authors and publishers over who owns the digital rights to Internet content.

Linuxcare has closed European operations and returned its original chief executive to the top job after a months-long search for a new leader.

The open-source community itself provides plenty of documentation, tutorial materials, and training courses. Linux vendors such as Red Hat also offer tutorial materials. And many colleges are now offering online Linux course

The Canopy Group has invested $2.5 million in Ebiz Enterprises, operator of LinuxMall and the Linux Store, allowing the Linux retailer to diminish its debt.

This cool new feature allows the user to display two different images at the same time - one on the internal LCD, the other on an external monitor. The Dual View feature is in addition to the ability to 'hot key' switch so that the same image may be switched to rotate from internal to external to both monitors via a 'hot key.' Dual View has two possible modes. Almost all chips (99%) support the Single Logical Screen (SLS) mode. In SLS mode, the laptop is configured to split the output buffer between the LCD and an external monitor, allowing the cursor to drag things across the boundary of the two screens. The second mode is Zoom mode, which is available if supported by the chipset. In Zoom mode, the laptop is configured to display a small, cursor-movable area on the first screen onto the second screen, with a different resolution. This resolution also may be 'hot key' switched to change the image size. Dual View is available as Xi Graphics announces new laptop support. Find more information at www.xig.com or call 800-946-7433.

TurboLinux chairman and co-founder Cliff Miller has stepped down to create a start-up focusing on storing other companies' data.

The need for IT professionals trained on the Linux operating system is increasing, according to a new report released Monday.

Hoping to warm up the chilly Linux desktop market, Chilliware is launching next week the first of what it claims will be more than 100 desktop Linux apps in its pipeline.

It'd be easy to think that Linux, the computer-geek operating system, would look pretty dull. But the bright, colorful desktops might surprise you. All you need are a few skills to get your desktop to look like ... well, whatever you want

Speaking at Gartner's Symposium/Itxpo, Sun's Scott McNealy has stated that he expects Sun to become the number 1 Linux company. This follows the announcement of its intention to acquire Linux appliance vendor Cobalt in a stock deal valued at around $2 billion. Sun, thus far, has not been renowned for its support of the Linux operating system and, so, this deal has come as a bit of a surprise for many.

Judging just by the number of lines of code, Sun's releasing of (most of) StarOffice under open source licensing is certainly the most massive project of its kind, ever.

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