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Re: woop, there it is. (and some more random Linux News)
On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Ira Abramov wrote:
> I just read 10 minutes ago that the Silicon Valley Linux Users Group
> arranged a Rally outside Fry's Electronics in Sunnyvale, a few miles away.
> every guy coming out of the store with a copy of win98 gets a free CD of
> Linux from them... If I only heard sonner, I would have joined...
crazy night. I missed a totally great time :-(
apperently it was really fun there, police was called and were very nice
to the Linux guys (yo, look, a buncha linux geeks protesting :-)
real action was in CompUSA. starting at midnight, and going on for 98
minutes, everything in the store was either $.98 (like V.90 modems, and
small things) or $98 computer system sans monitor (based on Celeron, but
for $98 who cares?)
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,23520,00.html
some photos taken by SVLUG people follow, movies on the way too...
http://hugin.imat.com/svlug/
http://www.etla.net/~willey/personal/funny/win98/
http://zork.net/nick/rally.mov
in other news: (mostly Linux related)
* kernel 2.1.107 is out. http://www.linuxhq.com/kpatch21.html
http://slashdot.org/articles/9806250836205.shtml
* Adaptec finally announces official support for Linux!
http://slashdot.org/articles/9806240925211.shtml
http://www.redhat.com/news/news-details.phtml?id=97
* Stampede Linux is in troubles. first NASA closes the official beowulf
site (Stampede lets you create a super-computer class farm of machines
working together, and that may be illegal to export), and then
stampede.com sued stampede.org...
http://www.stampede.org/legal.txt
http://www.stampede.org/
http://slashdot.org/articles/9806250845225.shtml
woops, this just in: http://slashdot.org/articles/9806251645209.shtml
apperently the NASA Beowulf site is back online, I wonder what changed
their mind...
Beowulf-based cluster has entered the list of the worlds 500 strongest
computers a while ago...
http://slashdot.org/articles/9806190943218.shtml
* Debian 2.0 will be out the door in less than a month, the website is
getting dressed up for the occasion..
http://www.debian.org/
* slightly funny article from a guy who decided Linux is not ready for
primetime...
http://www.currents.net/magazine/national/1612/gigg1612.html
* Corel doing some rearranging, laying off some people, but the Netwinder
is safe.
http://slashdot.org/articles/9806250854207.shtml
* Cobalt have some new Cube to offer you... still running Linux, it's a
microserver built to last forever :-)
http://pubs.cmpnet.com/internetwk/news/news0623-12.htm
http://slashdot.org/articles/9806250832231.shtml
* confidentiallity without Encryption?
http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/chaffing.txt
and now an implementation too:
ftp://ftp.red-bean.com/pub/chaffwin/chaffwin.tar.gz
* Bye Bye system security?
a Bill is being passed to make it illegal to attack software to check its
security. I think it's one of the weirdest laws I ever heard. what next?
son't stress test a bridge after you build it?
http://slashdot.org/articles/9806251438248.shtml
* Toshiba to Bundle Solaris with PCs...
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19980623S0032
this is interesting, since recent rumors said Solaris/86 may be going to
be released with source... guess they envy OSs that actually support all
the hardware options for the platforms they are released to run on...
http://slashdot.org/articles/980622111204.shtml
* RedHat for Sparc available...
http://slashdot.org/articles/980623107254.shtml
* Apache adopted as the official webserver for IBM's ecommerce package
http://slashdot.org/articles/9806181229206.shtml
Eli Marmor says it's not entirely impossible that IBM will go all free on
us one day and dump AIX for Linux. Wishful thinking or educated guess?
time will tell.