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Bang!inux |
March 5-7, 2001 Bangalor, India http://www.Banglinux.com/ |
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LINUX Business Expo |
March 7-9, 2001 Sydney, Australia http://www.linuxexpo.com.au |
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Computerfest |
March 10-11, 2001 Dayton, OH http://www.computerfest.com |
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Internet World Spring | March 12-16, 2001 Los Angeles, CA http://www.internetworld.com |
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COMDEX Canada West | March 13-15, 2001 Vancouver, B.C. http://www.key3media.com/comdex/canadawest2001 |
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Game Developers Conference | March 20-24, 2001 San Jose, CA http://www.gdconf.com |
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CeBit | March 22-28, 2001 Hannover, Germany http://www.cebit.de |
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3rd USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems
| March 26-28, 2001 San Francisco, CA http://www.usenix.org/events/usits01 |
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LinuxBazaar
| March 28-29, 2001 Prague, Czech Republic http://www.linuxbazaar.cz |
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Colorado Linux Info Quest Conference & Expo/CLIQ 2001 | March 29-30, 2001 Denver, CO http://thecliq.org |
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Association of C/C++ Users (ACCU)
| March 29-31, 2001 Oxford, England http://www.accuconf.com/ |
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LINUX Business Expo | April 2-5, 2001 Chicago, IL http://www.linuxbusinessexpo.com |
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Linux Expo, Madrid | April 4-5, 2001 Madrid, Spain http://www.linuxexpomadrid.com/EN/home |
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Linux Expo Road Show | April 23-27, 2001 Various Locations http://www.linux-expo.com |
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Open Source Development Network Summit | April 30 - May 1, 2001 Austin, TX http://osdn.com/conferences/handhelds/ |
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Linux for Industrial Applications 3rd Braunschweiger Linux-Tage | May 4-6, 2001 Braunschweig, Germany http://braunschweiger.linuxtage.de/industrie/ |
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Linux@Work Europe 2001 | May 8 - June 15, 2001 Various Locations http://www.ltt.de/linux_at_work.2001 |
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Linux Expo, São Paulo | May 9-10, 2001 São Paulo, Brazil http://www.linux-expo.com |
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SANS 2001 | May 13-20, 2001 Baltimore, MD http://www.sans.org/SANS2001.htm |
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7th Annual Applied Computing Conference | May 14-17, 2001 Santa Clara, CA http://www.annatechnology.com/annatech/HomeConf2.asp |
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Linux Expo, China | May 15-18, 2001 Shanghai, China http://www.linux-expo.com |
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SITI International Information Technologies Week OpenWorld Expo 2001 | May 22-25, 2001 Montréal, Canada http://www.mediapublik.com/en/ |
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Strictly e-Business Solutions Expo | May 23-24, 2001 Minneapolis, MN http://www.strictlyebusinessexpo.com |
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Linux Expo, Milan | June 6-7, 2001 Milan, Italy http://www.linux-expo.com |
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USENIX Annual Technical Conference | June 25-30, 2001 Boston, MA http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01 |
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PC Expo | June 26-29, 2001 New York, NY www.pcexpo.com |
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Internet World Summer | July 10-12, 2001 Chicago, IL http://www.internetworld.com |
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O'Reilly Open Source Convention | July 23-26, 2001 San Diego, CA http://conferences.oreilly.com |
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10th USENIX Security Symposium | August 13-17, 2001 Washington, D.C. http://www.usenix.org/events/sec01/ |
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HunTEC Technology Expo & Conference Hosted by Hunstville IEEE | August 17-18, 2001 Huntsville, AL URL unkown at present |
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Computerfest | August 25-26, 2001 Dayton, OH http://www.computerfest.com |
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LinuxWorld Conference & Expo | August 27-30, 2001 San Francisco, CA http://www.linuxworldexpo.com |
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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 |
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LinuxWorld Conference & Expo | October 30 - November 1, 2001 Frankfurt, Germany http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/linuxworldexpo/index.html |
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5th Annual Linux Showcase & Conference | November 6-10, 2001 Oakland, CA http://www.linuxshowcase.org/ |
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Strictly e-Business Solutions Expo | November 7-8, 2001 Houston, TX http://www.strictlyebusinessexpo.com |
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LINUX Business Expo Co-located with COMDEX | November 12-16, 2001 Las Vegas, NV http://www.linuxbusinessexpo.com |
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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:
- A review of Connectiva Linux 6.0, featuring the new APT mechanism for RPM (to take care of dependencies), kernel 2.2.17, XFree86 4.0.1
- A look at Unreal Tournament, GotY edition for (among others) Linux.
- The Linux Buyer's Guide #8 with a focus on working with Kernel 2.4.1 and XFree86 4.0.2. Systems are studied at 4 price points.
- OpenBSD 2.8 is reviewed.
- Plus, a review of a selection of technical books that may be of interest.
- An article looking at the latest Bind Vulnerabilities. Probably serious if you are affected since there is a known exploit (though perhaps not in the wild, YET). You have been warned! Also check-out the Security Focus article on the subject.
- On a lighter note, there is the story on an assembler coded in Bash.
- And the duelling hackers story of the DirecTV hacker game.
Three articles on The Register which may be of interest:
- A report on the change of ownership of Egroups to Yahoo, and the new terms/conditions being imposed.
- The news that Microsoft have partially outsourced their DNS servers to a firm (Akami) that appears to be using Linux for the job. I suppose all companies get things right from time to time!
- And, information on the new LinuxDisk software developed by Peter Braam. The driver allows a Linux system running commodity hardware to appear to the network as a storage device, much like a low-end SAN.
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.
Copying license http://www.linuxgazette.net/copying.html
Published in Issue 64 of Linux Gazette, March 2001