The concept of a remote desktop is very common among Unix networks. The design of the X server allows you to sit at one machine and work on another and access the entire range of GUI applications. The trouble, however, with the X-terminal setup is the high bandwidth connection that is required, restricting their usage to a local network. In contrast, VNC (Virtual Network Computing) offers the same functionality but will work over low-bandwidth connections too. VNC will even work over the Internet.

CC Communications went looking for answers for its clustering problems and found the right solution at a trade show. In this case study, CC Comm and PolyServe are a match made on an exhibit floor.

VA Linux Systems today announced that it expects revenue for the second fiscal quarter, ended January 27, 2001, to be $43 million to $50 million, an increase of 115% to 150% from the second quarter of fiscal 2000. It expects the loss for the quarter, excluding non-cash charges, to be in the range of $0.28 to $0.24 per share.

Intended for ISPs, ASPs, and larger corporate accounts, Volution is a directory-centered program that allows administrators to conduct asset management, hardware and software inventorying, health monitoring of Linux-based systems, and software distribution.

"The milestone I'm waiting for is the release of the first commercial distributions to combine production-quality releases of the 2.4 kernel, glibc 2.2.1, gcc 2.95 (maybe 3.0 if we're really lucky), XFree86 4.0.2, KDE 2.1 (and probably the next release of GNOME). With a little luck, all that should come together by mid-summer. Then it will be time to celebrate because that will truly be a stellar combination of software."

Westhaven sailmaker Doyle Sails has taken a technological leap forward by developing a program which calculates the way air will flow around sails. To do the task within a limited budget, the team built a Linux supercomputer by clustering eight PCs, each with two Celeron processors running at just under 500MHz.

Transmeta's Crusoe processor and Linux will be key to a group of ex-Compaq executives' plans to "redefine server economics" with a high-efficiency server platform aimed at Internet data centers.

eWEEK Labs suggests that readers wait for distributions before moving their systems to the new kernel. Developers working on long-term projects and those with prerelease Intel Corp. IA-64 Itanium workstations might want to use this release, bearing in mind that very little performance tuning has been done on Itanium systems.

Oracle and Intel have joined hands with three domestic venture firms to promote the open-source Linux operating system in the Korean enterprise solutions market. The two firms will increase marketing of products supporting the fastest growing standard OS for e-business and the Internet, in partnership with Korea's leading Linux vendors Linux One, Linux International and Linux Korea.

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana announced on Tuesday that NCSA will install two IBM Linux clusters at NCSA, creating the world's fastest Linux supercomputer in academia, and the fourth fastest supercomputer overall in the world.