Halcyon Software will bundle its product with TurboLinux’s distribution and Dell will bundle Sendmail with Red Hat Linux, Other companies are announcing partnerships and alliances, including one to move Linux into supercomputers, in this round up of Linux-related news.

Microsoft has partially outsourced the management of its Domain Name System (DNS) servers to a firm that is using Linux for the job.

The Linux Kernel 2.4 has recently been released with little fanfare from Linus Torvalds himself, but with much excitement from everyone else. What exactly is new with 2.4, and how does it improve the experience of the average desktop user?

Compaq Computer has selected SteelEye Technology's "clustering" software to help its high-end Linux servers catch up to those running Microsoft Windows, the company is set to announce Wednesday.

Most persons would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions- H.W. Longfellow.

In the first part of this series we had a laid the ground work that took us a step further towards understanding the necessity of a full fledged Intrusion Detection system (IDS). A good policy is to mix and match the best to form a security grid that should be difficult enough even for the expert cracker to penetrate. The various IDS systems of interest to us throughout this series will be purely Tripwire and Snort.

The Prince of darkness is a gentleman- Shakespeare, King Lear, III, 4

Without a decent browser, it will be difficult for alternative operating systems to remain viable.

We owe the old Netscape a great debt of gratitude for

releasing a Linux version of Netscape so early on; it quickly

made Linux a viable desktop, and later did the same for the

other free Unices. Only a few wise men seem to realize this.

Starters for Linux - Part 1

Among our wonderful readers we bet there are some of you who would like to get to know a lot more about Linux but have nowhere to go or should we say, just too confused as to where to start. This series aim at helping you novices get a firm grip on the basics of Linux.

In a previous article, we saw how versatile the boot loader 'LILO' was. This session we get more technical and look at the internals of LILO, its primary boot time operation, functionality and a few nifty little arguments that can help us tune up our LILO installation. One of the plus points of LILO is that it is filesystem independent. It is able to boot operating systems from Microsoft, OS/2, SCO Unix, Unixware, PC-DOS to Linux.

Although Linux was created in Europe and is used around the globe, it still lacks many language support and multinational capabilities. Find out about the Linux community's efforts to internationalize the OS in this in-depth report.