Sharp has started providing more details about its forthcoming handheld, which will combine a Linux platform with extensive Java support. Expected to ship this fall, it will feature an integrated sliding keyboard, a color screen, both CompactFlash and Secure Disk expansion slots and extensive multimedia capabilities.

kmLinux is a complete Linux distribution for schools. Its new version, kmLinux-2.0, comes with a new installer which is able to automatically resize an existing windows partition (fat16/32). The software collection is very uptodate: kernel-2.4.4, XFree-4.0.3, KDE-2.1.2, kOffice-1.1beta2.

Richard Stallman's singular crusade to have Linux christened GNU/Linux got praise from an unexpected quarter. Sun Microsystem's chief scientist and co-founder, John Gage, credited RMS with creating the free software that made the Linux phenomenon possible, describing it as a `fifteen-year sleeper hit'. "Charitably, we bow to the former, but not without wondering where we would be without Linus...", says Gage.

What I really want to do is illustrate how one part of the technology industry is pulling away from Linux at a time when many people are jumping on the Linux bandwagon. I am referring to the group of technical book publishers that has an outlook on their title lists that is very similar to that of an oil explorer: If you don't strike it rich with a particular title or series, then move on to the next big idea just as fast as you can. And, should you strike it rich, then pump that well dry until there is nothing left but dust.

"I have used Open Desktop, Looking Glass and OpenView. And now am a KDEfan. But none of them has ever made it as a big-time desktop operating environment and none of them ever will. It’s not that Unix/Linux is hard to use. The biggest problem is a perceived lack of end-user apps. In particular, Linux on the desktop needs Microsoft Office before it can become mainstream," says Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols.

The companies are trying to agree on how to include each other's software in each's own products and services. But a significant and unresolved area of dispute is Microsoft's demand that AOL agree not to challenge Microsoft in court over antitrust matters, according to people close to both sides of the talks.

GNOME-DB/libGDA are a complete framewok for developing database-oriented applications, and actually allow access to PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Sybase and ODBC data sources. Apart from this development framework, they also include several applications and utilities which make them quite suitable for many database-related taks.

Version 1.0.3 is still based on kernel 2.4.5. A nasty memory leak in 1.0.2 was fixed (which occurred under certain circumstances when migrating a process to another node). Everybody running a pre-1.0.3 is well-adivsed to upgrade soon. The reference CPU speed as been revised to 1Ghz from 400Mhz. The installer adds a few more options.

Last year, according to IDC, Linux captured only about 1.5 percent of the desktop PC market (which remains dominated by Windows). And Eazel, the most promising company trying to bring Linux to the masses, went out of business after failing to attract investors. But Linux desktop development is far from dead. Even if it's not ready for consumers, there is considerable demand from businesses that desire Linux's low cost, flexibility and control. In other words, there's no need to fear that ``Tux,'' Linux's penguin mascot,will become an endangered species.

Basically for communication where there is a client-server flavor, the server process creates a socket and the client socket accesses the server through client socket techniques.

Socket

A socket is fundamentally nothing but an end point of communication. It can be of two types: Physical socket and Logical socket. In Logical socket operating system has its system calls, which creates them. Now for client-server access the socket needs three things to provide service or ask for service.

1) Service name (example: telnet)

2) Protocol (TCP-stream)