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Your guide to open source software at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo

Features  Onsite reports from the show  Daily reports from Shayde, an editor from freshmeat, and Nick Moffitt, a high-level don in the San Francisco Linux mafia. On the desktop Feature story: Get GNOME at LinuxWorld Expo When it's finished, GNOME will give users an easy management GUI and a place to hang newly minted Linux apps. By Judy DeMocker (March 2, 1999) Discuss this article in the LinuxWorld forums (4  postings) Feature story: WINE and the WINEmakers Though WINE's not perfect yet, it's still more compatible between Windows versions than any version of Windows. By Rick Cook (February 23, 1999) Discuss this article in the LinuxWorld forums (13  postings) Desktop applications roundup New features, future plans, and other vital stats on a bunch of desktop apps. Server side Feature story: Apache-IBM marriage bears children With a little help, the next version of Apache should be ready for prime time. By Niall McKay (February 28, 1999) Discuss this article in the LinuxWorld forums (1  postings) Feature story: The original 'killer app' In the overlooked killer app, e-mail, mail-transfer agents can be a hotbed of innovation. By Cameron Laird and Kathryn Soraiz (February 23, 1999) Discuss this article in the LinuxWorld forums (0  postings) Server software roundup Latest information about Samba, ivtools, Sendmail, GnuDip, and other server software. Development tools Feature story: Perl gets a parser XML::Parser glues the Perl interface to an XML parser. By Robert Richardson (February 28, 1999) Discuss this article in the LinuxWorld forums (0  postings) Feature story: Python, anyone? Do we need another Perl? Differences between Python and Perl show there's room for both. By Robert Richardson (February 23, 1999) Discuss this article in the LinuxWorld forums (5  postings) Development tools roundup What features will Python have in a year? What's kawa? Learn more about a host of development tools. Reader Poll My plans for the August LinuxWorld Expo: Wouldn't miss it for all the world Hope to attend, not sure yet if I will Want to attend but can't Do not want or plan to attend Undecided Total votes = 67 Current Results

Attendee Write-ups of Conference Sessions Tuesday a.m. Keynote presentation by Michael Cowpland Keynote presentation by Mark Jarvis Wednesday a.m. Integrating UNIX and NT environments Perl: The first post-modern programming language How Linux-SNA can impact your business The GNOME Project Keeping Linux unified: To fork or not to fork Wednesday p.m. Linux and the future of the Internet Beowulf Linux-SNA: The workings, design, and the implementation of an SNA server The Coda distributed filesystem OpenGL/Mesa 3D support for Linux Scientific applications of Linux Thursday a.m. The Development of a Forward Thinking Configurable GUI Optimizing OpenGL performance on a PC The Modify-on-Access filesystem: An extensible Linux filesystem The BitKeeper distributed source code management system An open-source Web-based document processing system Thursday p.m. How to copyright your software and choose a license Trees are fast! Extropia.com: A case study in open source software development More Linux news 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.