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Python, anyone?
Do we need another Perl? Differences between Python and Perl show there's room for both.
By Robert Richardson
(February 23, 1999)
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Photoshop for free
Is the GIMP Linux's killer app? By Joe Barr
(March 08, 1999)
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Linux gets its bite of the Macintosh
What are your options when it comes to Linux on the Mac? By Rick Cook
(February 26, 1999)
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| The state of clustering |
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Ready for the breakthrough: The state of Linux clustering
Effective Linux multiprocessing is almost here. Is it for you? By Cameron Laird
(February 26, 1999)
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| There & Back Again |
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Sharing a printer between Linux and NT
Two, count 'em, two ways to share printers in mixed environments. By Gerald Carter
(February 26, 1999)
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| Uptime |
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Ten weeks to T1
Diary of a sysadmin during an ISP change. By Mark Komarinski
(February 23, 1999)
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| Letters to the editor |
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LinuxWorld readers speak out
RMS on Java licensing, comments on the Linux desktop and Red Hat's growing dominance.
(February 23, 1999)
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| Linux and NetWare |
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Linux on the LAN
What can you really do with Caldera's NetWare for Linux? By William Wong
(February 12, 1999)
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| Linux wildcard should feed industry change
This ent Magazine article comments: "There's an important lesson being taught to Microsoft by Linux, and that's that the tables can be been turned more than once." In other words, Microsoft has become the IBM of the really blue (for it) 1980s, when Microsoft took its PC market. |
| | A first-hand report on the Summit
Thomas Scoville offers a first-hand report on the Open Source Summit. "Tim O'Reilly did a brilliant job of organizing, moderating, and funding the event ... it was clear to me he had no interest in controlling the terms of the debate." "Eric Raymond ... seems to have refined the practice [selling the OS concept to business] into a high art." "The mainstream software industry has observed that Open Source is a powerful way of getting big things done. But they don't understand why. And it may be that they're incapable of getting it." And more. |
| | Macworld bundles Linux in April edition
LinuxPPC announces that its LinuxPPC Live OS is included in the CD-ROM insert of the April 1999 newsstand edition of Macworld Magazine. LinuxPPC Live can be installed on a Mac by copying it to the hard drive (no special installation or software) and booted with a simple double-click. |
| | Marketing guide for Linux systems
Nicholas Carroll offers this paper on the "viability of Linux as a mainstream operating system" as a marketing beginner for those who wish to market Linux to the mainstream. |
| | Options in PC operating systems
Wired News chronicles an historic event. Dell and IBM, two of the world's largest PC manufacturers, offer an operating system alternative to Windows -- Linux. Michael Dell recently hinted that Dell will soon offer services and support for Linux to individual users. |
| | Cygnus provides GnuPro tools to Corel
Cygnus Solutions will provide Corel with its GnuPro technology to migrate Corel applications to Linux. This means that Corel can make all of its applications, from WordPerfect 8 to CorelDraw, available for Linux. From ZDnetUK. |
| | Linux stub for ColdFusion
Allaire announces a Linux ColdFusion Server stub. (A stub is a module that accepts requests and forwards them to a remote server.) This stub will allow customers to connect an Apache Web server running on Linux to a ColdFusion Server running on a separate Windows or Solaris machine. |
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