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Linux : Articles : XML files for Linux
Posted: ( Wed 14th Feb 2001 07:19:29[AM] UTC )
Linux users are lucky and have a wealth of choices and options in being able to prepare and managing XML data through availability of tools. With an ever-increasing demand for standardisation and data exchange and with a need for seamless integration with disparate database structures, can Linux capitalise on the growing corporate marketplace, or is it too late?

Linux : Articles : Linux database battle heats up
Posted: ( Tue 13th Feb 2001 08:39:26[PM] UTC )
"Open source databases can't compete with the commercial databases in all categories," said Michael "Monty" Widenius, co-founder and main author of MySQL. "We do, however, compete in many of the strategic categories and, as the products expand, we will start to compete in the categories that have traditionally been reserved for the commercial databases," he said.

Linux : Articles : Planning GNOME 2.0 by Miguel de Icaza
Posted: ( Tue 13th Feb 2001 08:23:06[PM] UTC )
"This document provides some background on the way we have developed GNOME in the past, the integration work that lies ahead and outlines the problems that we might run into if we are not careful with the goals we set for GNOME 2.0."

Linux : Articles : How are decisions made on what goes into the kernel?
Posted: ( Tue 13th Feb 2001 09:41:30[AM] UTC )
The Linux kernel is the center of every Linux distribution. The source code which goes into it is very special -- any bugs it has will affect every part of the system, perhaps even destroying the work of the user. How do changes happen inside of it? How are decisions made about the direction that the kernel will take?

Linux : Articles : Linux teaches IBM how to share
Posted: ( Mon 12th Feb 2001 09:58:05[PM] UTC )
"The Internet and a program called Linux changed the rules of the game ? and gave IBM a new set of rules to master. In this game, keeping secrets is forbidden and winning means helping the competition."

Linux : Articles : Linux kernel 2.4 ascends the Big Iron
Posted: ( Mon 12th Feb 2001 07:57:47[PM] UTC )
The IBM S/390 has received the most attention from the Linux community, after it was announced that David Boyes at Dimension Enterprises had run 41,400 separate instances of Linux simultaneously on one mainframe machine before it ran out of resources.

Linux : Articles : Transcript of remarks by Sam Palmisano, IBM president and CEO, at Linuxworld
Posted: ( Mon 12th Feb 2001 07:43:57[PM] UTC )
"Linux represents the next step in this e-business evolution. Linux will do for software what the Internet did for networks. Linux is all about application connectivity. And this is why we say Linux is for real and Linux is ready for real business."

Linux : Articles : Sair certification overview
Posted: ( Mon 12th Feb 2001 12:43:02[AM] UTC )
"Like LPI, Sair divides the mastery of Linux into three levels. To become certified at each level, you must pass four exams (available through Prometric testing centers). As of this writing, only the first level--"Sair Linux and GNU Certified Administrator" (LCA)--is available."

Linux : Articles : XML database tools for Linux
Posted: ( Fri 9th Feb 2001 08:17:18[PM] UTC )
There is a growing body of work on how to effectively manage XML data in hierarchical, relational, and object databases. Hierarchical databases are often considered the most natural representation because XML itself is a hierarchy of elements and character data.

Linux : Articles : Linux and Finance at LinuxWorld Expo
Posted: ( Thu 8th Feb 2001 04:17:13[PM] UTC )
Welcome to New York, financial capital of the world. Linux isn't here to run some little web server--banks and other financial institutions are one good proposal and a couple of meetings away from rolling it out in their data centers.

Linux : Articles : Don't look now, but Linux 2.4 is enterprise-ready
Posted: ( Wed 7th Feb 2001 04:32:32[PM] UTC )
The 2.4 kernel systematically addresses and remedies the main weakness that has kept Linux from winning more servers in the enterprise: scalability. This article looks at the changes and improvements to the 2.4 kernel and also how it compares to the network operating systems that currently dominate the enterprise.

Linux : Articles : At the heart of the open source movement; XML
Posted: ( Wed 7th Feb 2001 08:56:03[AM] UTC )
"In the future, all network content will be defined in XML ... Jabber is just a generic XML routing framework." XML, then, becomes not only a key enabler of innovation, but also a driver for innovation.

Linux : Articles : 2.4 kernel: Stealing some time with kernel hacker Geert Uytterhoeven
Posted: ( Wed 7th Feb 2001 08:48:06[AM] UTC )
"The 2.4.0-test releases received a lot of testing. So far it worked fine on all machines I installed it on. I'm particularly happy that we got integrated most of the m68k (Amiga, Atari, Mac, Sun-3, ...) port. As you probably know, Linux/m68k was the first port of Linux to a non-Intel platform (yes, it's even older than the Alpha port)."

Linux : Articles : The best of LinuxWorld Expo 2001
Posted: ( Tue 6th Feb 2001 04:44:21[PM] UTC )
"Most awkward moment for a kernel creator: During the Golden Penguin Bowl, a quiz-show event, it fell to Linus Torvalds to define "BogoMips," a term he himself invented. When the judges ruled his answer insufficiently specific, the look on his face was absolutely priceless."

OpenBEOS : Articles : Filetyping and the art of content management
Posted: ( Tue 6th Feb 2001 04:42:00[PM] UTC )
"BeOS, has added two important pieces that no other OS appears to use. First, BeOS uses the MIME typing system. This defines super- and subtypes of files, as well as provides a mechanism for industry-wide definitions."