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Procom to felease NetBEUI stack

Procom Technology, a leading manufacturer of server appliances and pioneer in the development of network attached storage (NAS) technology, today announced that it intends to distribute its implementation of the NetBEUI (Network Basic Extended User Interface) stack to the Linux community.

Help with RPM

Redhat's package manager "rpm" is a powerful tool for installing, removing, and maintaining the software on you Linux system, unfortunately for users new to the Linux / Unix world it can also be quite confusing as their is no Windows equivalent.

Net Election: By The Numbers, Pt. 2

Number of major presidential Web sites running on a Linux platform: 1 (Gore)

Caldera's IPO set at $7-9

An initial public offering by Caldera Systems Inc., which develops software based on the Linux operating system, was set at 5 million common shares that may sell for $7-9 apiece, the company said on Friday.

SGI and SuSE to bring high-availability to Linux

At the CeBIT 2000 conference, the world's largest information technology exhibition, SGI and SuSE Linux AG announced the initiation of a joint engineering project to bring IRIS FailSafe, SGI's high-availability clustering software, to the Linux operating system. The two companies announced their plans to develop a version of IRIS FailSafe for high-availability applications in Linux environments.

Bang!Linux - Linux Conference Report - Day 1

Bang!inux a Linux Developers Conference being held at the Silicon Valley of India, Bangalore Started off today with a Keynote Address from Michael Burghart of SuSe(Platinum Sponsor), who welcomed the delegates to the conference and hinted about having a SuSe Office/Development center in India@Bangalore.

The mobile internet race

Epoc and Windows CE are not the only operating systems for wireless handhelds. Geoworks, for example, was one of the first companies to produce software for wireless e-commerce and information services. Nokia's famous 9110 communicator and Hewlett Packard's OmniGo both run on Geoworks' Geos operating system. Phone.com, NetBSD and Linux are other potential competitors.

Network Monitoring with Linux

Are you having trouble keeping your network under control? Here is an introduction to NOCOL: the freeware network monitoring system which will help you keep instability at bay.

The Office Linux rumour mill

The notion that Microsoft might develop a port of Office for Linux has been rumbling around for several years, but the rumours have been picking up pace recently. At CeBIT this week, LinuxCare executive Arthur Tyde told reporters that he had heard that 34 developers were working on the project, which has given rise to a fresh round of speculation.

Red Hat's CTO examines his role and the future of Linux

Michael Tiemann's early work with GNU software created world-leading technologies, becoming an inspiration to Linus Torvalds and an enabling technology for Linux in 1991.

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