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IBM to Sell Linux-Only Regatta Servers? By ComputerWire Posted: 10/14/2002 at 02:09 EST
IBM Corp last week announced that it has delivered the AIX 5L Release 5.2 version of its Unix operating system for its pSeries RISC-Unix servers, writes Timothy Prickett-Morgan. While most Linux customers don't care much about what IBM does or does not do in the pSeries line, my sources at the company say that IBM might be readying a set of Linux-only Power4-based "Regatta" servers to take on the Unix installed base - including Big Blue's own AIX base. This would be a very interesting development, indeed.
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November 18 date set for UnitedLinux By John Leyden Posted: 10/10/2002 at 07:38 EST
The first full version of UnitedLinux will be available from November 18.
UnitedLinux is a marriage of four distros - SuSE, Caldera, Conectiva and TurboLinux - designed to address the needs of the business market, particularly in terms of round the clock, local support. It's also evolving into a scheme to develop a channel for Linux sales.
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Secure Linux desktop begins shipping to UK police force By John Lettice Posted: 10/18/2002 at 06:35 EST
A pilot scheme which could see police forces throughout England and Wales switching to Linux desktops has kicked off with delivery of the first systems to the West Yorkshire force. The deployment is taking place under a contract awarded to netproject earlier this year by the UK Police IT Organisation, and if successful will cover over 60,000 desktops. In West Yorks alone the installed base is around 3,500, and a spokesman reckoned that the savings from this would be around £1 million a year.
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I've mentioned as a side note in a previous post somewhere but feel it's worth putting here:
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Eager to catch up with nations switching to computer systems other than Microsoft Windows, Japan will study the possibility of using open-source software such as Linux (news - web sites) at the government level.
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Questions given to Linux Torvalds
1) Once world domination is achieved, what will your official title be? Torvalds: I've been called many things, and I think on the whole it will be either "Emperor Penguin" or "Pinhead". We will see.
2) Does Linux run on Red Hat? Torvalds: That's just too strange a question.
3) Did you decide to call the next release 2.6 because point-oh releases have more bugs? Torvalds: No, it's because there's an ancient Sumerian prophecy based on numerology that seems to imply that the moon would explode if we called it 3.0.
We're not really sure whether we decoded the clay tablets correctly, but on the whole we felt it was better to be safe than sorry.
4) If kernel hackers are like sous chefs, are you the Executive Sous Chef? Torvalds: I think I'm the bartender. At least it feels like that sometimes, with a lot of people coming to tell me their sorrows.
5) People say Linux is ugly. How does that make you feel? Torvalds: They'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes. Let's see just how ugly they think it is when they have a few bulletholes in them.
6) If Linux is so great, how come it has a higher TCO than Windows? Torvalds: By the phrasing of that question, I can only assume that by TCO you mean the "Totally Cool Operation" value as opposed to it's more common technical meaning. And quite frankly, nobody knows why, but clearly it is so. Using Linux just makes you Totally Cool (admittedly mostly in a geeky kind of way, but hey, if it's cheerleaders you want, you would be in a rock band, right?)
7) Are you smarter than Bill Gates? Torvalds: Bill who?
8) I read that your wife is proficient in karate. Is that why you help with the kids? Torvalds: Yes.
9) I've heard that Linux causes cancer. How many hours a week can it safely be used? Torvalds: That's a filthy lie. Besides, it was only in rats and has not been reproduced in humans.
10) If you played the Linux version of UT2003, what name would you use? Torvalds: I think I'd be "lame duck."
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More stuff I found in interviews with Linus Torvalds:
What do you think of the FreeBSD 5 kernel and WindowsXP's new features from a clearly technical point of view?
Linus Torvalds: I don't actually follow other operating systems much. I don't compete - I just worry about making Linux better than itself, not others. And quite frankly, I don't see anythign very interesting on a technical level in either.
What is your opinion on Hailstorm, .Net and the rest of the technologies Microsoft is preparing to roll out in the years to come? Can these releases have an impact on Linux and if yes, in what way?
Linus Torvalds: See my answer about not caring what the competition does, but doing my own thing as well as I can..
Do you believe that the oh-so-many Linux distributions are a good thing for Linux's overall good and future, or a problem that creates forks and inconsistencies throughout the platform?
Linus Torvalds: Oh, choice is always hard. But we take it for granted in politics, and I take it for granted in Linux. Quite frankly, everybody has slightly different priorities, and working in lock-step simply isn't a good idea. Never has been, never will be.
When somebody who is different shows himself to be different in a _good_ way, that's how development happens.
What is your opinion on RMS insisting calling Linux as GNU/Linux?
Linus Torvalds: I don't mind what rms calls the system. I don't think his arguments for the naming are very valid, but hey, at the same time I really couldn't care less.
It seems to me that he really couldnt give a shit about windows and so on, Linux is on its own mission.
\"Mathematical things can't be patented,\" Stallman argued. \"Surely nobody could apply mathematics if it were necessary to pay a license fee whenever one had to use the Pythagoras theorem.\"
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The chief minister of the state of Madhya Pradesh in India, Digvijay Singh, has announced that the state government would switch to Linux software. \"For us it is not a question of Microsoft versus Linux,\" he said. \"It is just a matter of choosing between free software and monopoly software.\"
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The University of Zululand in South Africa is making substantial savings as it uses the alternative system to provide inexpensive Internet access to 6,000 students.
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"Entering a market that has attracted the likes of Sun Microsystems and raised an alarm at Microsoft, Penguin Computing announced Thursday a new desktop PC for businesses that runs on the open-source Linux operating system.
"The computer manufacturer, best known for its Linux servers and workstations, introduced the Niveus 1X Linux desktop, which offers a choice between Intel's Celeron and Pentium 4 processors. It is available now directly from Penguin for a price starting at about $700 without a monitor.
"Penguin said that with the machine, it hopes to address a movement among some companies, educational institutions and government agencies to use Linux desktops, as opposed to desktops running Microsoft's proprietary Windows OS, in specific areas, such as business call centers. Sun Microsystems announced a similar move toward that market last August. Penguin plans to begin offering its Linux desktops in 2003..."
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You Dont see Windows Saving the world....
"Australian federal and state law enforcement agencies have introduced the Linux platform as a new crime fighting tool with the New South Wales state computer crime unit recently installing 40 boxes with triple boot systems.
"The installation complements a Linux-based forensic tool being used by law enforcement, called the Storage Media Archival and Recovery Tool (Smart), which was developed by U.S. forensic computer scientist Andrew Scott Rosen of Data Recovery & Acquisition and Analysis.
"Rosen is in Australia with U.S. Linux expert Thomas Rude installing and configuring the machines, which have also been introduced by the Australian Federal Police, Attorney General's office and the Defense Signals Directorate..."
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More Linux vs Windows
A recap of the latest episodes in the Microsoft war on Linux: "As businesses increasingly adopt Linux as the operating system on their computer servers, Microsoft is shifting the battleground from schoolyard insults or techy speak to corporate notions of 'business value...'"
In India, the Microsoft Corporation chairman outlined a long list of monetary handouts.
$20 million to develop India's Shiksha edtech training programme (which has an ambitious target of training more than 80,000 teachers and 3.5 million students over several years);
$1 million to MIT's Media Lab Asia project;
a $25 million, five-year grant for a children's vaccine programme against Hepatitis B in the southern Andhra Pradesh state; and
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Ok, I have to agree that Bill does donate alot of money to all sort of needs over the world. On the other hand sometimes he gives people deals (governments and schools) that will cost them nothing to start with but will cost a hell of alot of money down the road.... but yea, he does give more money to charity than anybody else on earth.
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matoko: if u read the article, you will notice it has nothing to do with donating to charity.
when i said what i did, its because its ironic. I was refering to criminal activities, they using linux to help solve CRIMES. nothing about charity, i know he gives to charity (but honestly, if you were turning over 2.8billion dollars a year, and u could never turn it all into liquid cash, wouldnt you also be throughing it around like water?)
Now why I say its ironic, is because Microsoft court case is about there criminal activities
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Linux in the Schools!!!!!
Intro: "As the bell rings to begin class at Greater Houlton Christian Academy, enthusiastic students sit down at their shiny, new computer workstations. In one corner, the red cabinet housing the server hums quietly as two stuffed penguins look on fondly from their perch. Other penguins keep watch from different locations as the students enter their user names and passwords to access their accounts. Ask a student who 'Tux' is, and he or she will point to the large penguin painted on the front wall of the computer lab and say, 'He's the Linux penguin!' About this time KDE has loaded, and young boys and girls are opening the application they need for class as easily as kicking a ball.
"Now for a little history. Greater Houlton Christian Academy (GHCA) is a private school and nonprofit organization in Maine. As such, it does not have the same access to funding as the public school system. As the computer science teacher and system administrator, this means I have to be creative about providing our students with computer technology while working with a tight budget. In the past I relied on area businesses and generous individuals to donate their used computers. While these donations were a great blessing to us, they were a temporary solution at best..."
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Quote from Sbic intranet Tech: Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Initiative: SD3 + Communications. Bill Gates challenged Microsoft's 50,000 employees to build a trustworthy computing environment for customers. It has to be as reliable as the electricity that powers our homes and businesses today. It should be built on four pillars: reliability, security, privacy and business integrity.
if its anything like the power supply to my area, then the finished product will only work 4days of the week, and keep cutting out, and it will surge my hardware components.
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