Lineo Embedix SDK 2.0 provides more comprehensive processor support as well as a new "snap-in" architecture for the dynamic addition of new hardware and software support and features. Embedix SDK 2.0 is tested to run on all major Linux distributions as well as Windows NT and 2000.

"The truth is that Linux, and the rest of the Unix family, simply aren't popular for desktop systems. Corel, the company that tried the hardest to bring out a commercially successful desktop version of Linux, fell flat on its face despite a darned good package. I'll keep using it-and so will hundreds of thousands of Linux fans-but for the foreseeable future, Linux won't be appearing on many desktops."

Some of the examples in this document assume that you have GNU tar, find, and xargs. These are quite standard; this should not cause problems. It is also assumed that you know your system's filesystem structure; if you don't, it is critical that you keep a written copy of the mount command's output during normal system operation.

Themes, a capability supplied with Linux desktop environments, provides users the ability to personalize the look of the user interface of their desktop. Its integration into Open Motif will improve the usability of enterprise applications ported to Linux while allowing them to continue to be developed with the highly reliable Motif user interface toolkit.

Updated Kerberos 5 packages are now available for Red Hat Linux 7. These updates resolve a linkage problem introduced in RHSA-2001:025.

Velocity, a powerful template engine written in Java, is ideal for web development and is a great alternative to JSP, ASP, PHP and other dynamic server-side web technologies. It is useful for general templating tasks such as the generation of source code, SQL, and XML documents, as well as XSLT-like XML processing.

The VMware GSX (for workgroup) and ESX (for enterprisewide needs) products promise to reduce the number of servers by running your servers instead under one giant mainframe-style Linux box, and load the guest OS environments in an arbitrary number of virtual machines.

Icecast has a much better administration, both through telnet as well as a Web interface and is known to be less of a drain on server resources. In addition to this, it has an excellent support for directory servers. The latest version is 1.3.10 (you can get the source as well as binary RPMs from http://www.icecast.org/download.html).

Installation

Installation from source is a simple three-step process

./configure

make

make install

Copy the default configuration file to the conf directory under the base icecast directory.

The Linux USB subsystem, integrated in the kernel and already supported by most Linux distributions, supports all necessary features like plug-and-play, USB bandwith allocation and more than 100 ports per bus and is key to the emerging Linux desktop market.

"Amiga's next-generation operating system is at long last to get a home of its own: Sharp's upcoming Linux version of the Zaurus PDA. The two companies have entered into a "long-term partnership" that will see Amiga develop "content" for Sharp's new PDAs."