Wired.com has a story about the international flavor of LinuxWorld this past week. “Most prominent was the announcement of a Chinese government-sponsored Linux distribution called Yangfan Linux. Built by a coalition of government, universities and private companies, the distribution will eventually replace Windows on all government computers.”

LinuxSecurity Contributors writes: “LinuxSecurity.com reports in their Linux Advisory Watch this week, advisories were released for cvs, mailman, hylafax, interchange, l2tpd, xinetd, glibc, modssl, chfn, libpng, bind, xchat, shareutils, tcl/tk, mm, and ipppd. The vendors include Caldera, Debian, Gentoo, Mandrake, OpenBSD, Red Hat, SuSE, Trustix, and Yellow Dog.”

ZDNet reports on Red Hat, Mandrake and SuSE being certified with the Linux Standard Base. “Efforts to prevent the Linux from splitting into several incompatible versions — a problem that has in the past hobbled Unix, the operating system upon which Linux is modeled — moved several steps ahead this week.”

“Create like it’s 1790,” urged Stanford professor Lawrence Lessig at
last month’s O’Reilly Open Source Convention in San Diego, CA. Lessig
used the history of fairy tales and the folksinger-style refrain of
“Ours is less and less a free society” to warn against the danger of
encroaching copyright laws and “regulation of creativity.” It’s hard to
beat Lessig for eloquent calls to action. View the full text of
Lessig’s keynote presentation, “Free Culture,” here:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/policy/2002/08/15/lessig.html.

Multimedia files of OSCON keynotes and session presentations are
available at:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/15/presentations.html

Slashdotters discuss an Oreillynet.com commentary. “I’d be all in favor of legislation that mandates Open Standards where applicable, and requires government bodies to seriously consider Open Source alternatives. But what we’re getting is attempts to *require* use of Open Source software — effectively criminalizing an official’s decision to buy commercial software to meet their needs.”

C|Net’s News.com has the story about the Cyberspace Policy Institute pushing for Linux to be certified under the Common Criteria and volunteering to be a central repository for a federally certified version of the operating system. (We reported the beginnings of this story back in March.)

The third Beta of the upcoming Mandrake Linux 9.0 is now available. Thanks to many helpful suggestions and reports, Beta 3 contains numerous corrections and improvements to the DrakX installer and assorted software.
The third Beta also introduces new features, including:

• The first release of ‘drakcronat’. Drakcronat is a utility for configuring ‘at’ and ‘cron’ jobs.
• WebDAV file system support has been integrated into the kernel and in drakconf. WebDAV allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote web servers.
• koffice 1.2rc1, an office productivity suite from KDE, is now available in a new fully-functional version.
• i845 support for 2D in XFree86 appears with this third Beta.

There’s still room for improvements and additional testing, so we would greatly appreciate everyone’s participation.

To download Mandrake Linux 9.0 Beta 3 and view a full list of changes and improvements, please go to
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/90beta.php3.

The Register has the story about Sun chairman and CEO Scott McNealy calling for LSB support while knocking “Red Hat compliance.” that’s curious, the story says, because Red Hat is seeking LSB certification and Sun’s new Linux distro is “highly compatible” with Red Hat 7.2.

This comes from the site SearchWindowsManageability.com. While Microsoft continues to assert that Windows is cheaper to run, several attendees of LinuxWorld disputed that claim.

Adrienne Lee sends us the Caldera eSTREET for Partners and Developers — August 2002 Edition. Read more below.

In August’s edition:

* Caldera Executive Message – Caldera Today
* Caldera GEOFORUM 2002 – Valuable Information For You in Las Vegas!
* Caldera Product Announcements – Partnerships, Volution Messaging Server & UNIX
* Partner Spotlight – Borland Software Corporation
* Solutions Showcase CD – Looking For That Missing Piece to Your Solution?
* Technical Corner – Top 10 Technical Articles
* Caldera Partner Program – Partner Logos, Solutions Directory and More
* Made For Caldera – New Solutions From Caldera Partners
* Global Caldera – Update on Regional GEOFORUM Events

(For the web version, please visit
http://www.caldera.com/partners/estreet/0208)

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Caldera Executive Message – Caldera Today
On June 27, 2002, I joined Caldera International, Inc. as President and CEO. During this first month, I have spent a good amount of time talking to employees, customers and partners. I have been looking for assets that we can leverage in the marketplace to gain maximum impact and continue the Caldera tradition of excellence. My initial findings are very encouraging and I wanted to share them with you at this time.

Click here for Darl’s message…
http://www.caldera.com/partners/estreet/0208/exec. html
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Caldera GEOFORUM 2002 – Valuable Information For You in Las Vegas!

Taking place in Las Vegas, August 25-27, GEOFORUM is the place to hear from Caldera’s new President and CEO, Darl McBride, as well as get more information on the products and services you love. Featuring break-out sessions and keynote addresses from Caldera executives and partners, you are sure to gather great information about Caldera and its commitment to our partners and developers.

Check out all the information about GEOFORUM…
http://www.caldera.com/partners/estreet/0208/featu re.html
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Caldera Product Announcements – Partnerships, Volution Messaging Server, and UNIX

As Darl McBride’s message states, Caldera is aggressively pursuing all avenues of opportunity. Partnerships, products and industry information will continue to be improved upon and sent to you. Here’s some information for August:

** Caldera Announces Partnership with Conectiva **
** Volution Messaging Server Release 1.1 – More Features! **
** Lower Pricing for Online Data Manager – Open UNIX 8 & UnixWare 7 **
More information can be found here…
http://www.caldera.com/partners/estreet/0208/prod. html

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Partner Spotlight – Borland Software Corporation

Borland Software Corporation is a leading provider of technology used to develop, deploy, and integrate software applications across the enterprise. Based on the flagship award-winning C++ and Delphi environments, Borland revolutionizes Linux development, delivering a high-productivity Rapid Application Development (RAD) solution. Kylix brings the advantages of RAD, with integrated native compilers and debuggers, for fast and simple Linux development. With visual two-way tools and hundreds of pre-built, customizable components and classes, Kylix lets you streamline application design and development, and build high-performance database, GUI, Web, and Web Services applications-fast.

Borland will be presenting a one-day Kylix training seminar at Caldera GEOFORUM. Learn how you can dramatically reduce your development time with the #1 Linux IDE at this special training event. More information can be found at http://www.caldera.com/geoforum/.

http://www.caldera.com/partners/estreet/0208/spot. html

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Solutions Showcase CD – Looking for that Missing Piece to Your Solution?
What has 16 products and contains another piece to your solution? The Solutions Showcase CD from the Caldera Developer Network.

Looking for an enterprise-system relational database, or maybe a thin client server? What about backup and restore software? If you are looking for any of these or even another solution, you will find it on the Solutions Showcase CD.

The Solutions Showcase CD contains evaluation and demo software from 16 of Caldera’s partners. In addition, you will find all the marketing, sales and technical documentation you need to help you through the buying cycle.

Check out the Solutions Showcase CD today and discover the answer to your solution needs!
http://www.caldera.com/partners/estreet/0208/solcd .html

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Technical Corner – Top 10 Technical Articles

Is there an issue that you just can’t seem to find the workaround for? Have you checked the Support Knowledge Center available through Partner Online, one of your benefits as a Caldera Partner? Check out the Top 10 Technical Articles for the last month.

Your answer is right here!
http://www.caldera.com/partners/estreet/0208/tech. html

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Caldera Partner Program – Solutions Directory, Services & Logos

The Caldera Partner Program is continually working to create more value for our Developer and Solutions Partners. This section of eSTREET details some of the many benefits that you will find through the Partner Programs.

** Find Your Solution in the Caldera Solutions Directory **
** Caldera Services – Providing Value for You **
** Partner Program Logos – Update Yours Today! **

Read on for more information…
http://www.caldera.com/partners/estreet/0208/part. html

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Made for Caldera – New Solutions From Caldera Partners

Check out the new solutions in the Solutions Directory. Our partners
have definitely been busy in the last month creating new solutions for
Caldera platforms — more than xx in software applications and hundreds of hardware devices!

Here’s the list of last month’s solutions for you!
http://www.caldera.com/partners/estreet/0208/made. html

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Global Caldera – Regional GEOFORUM Events

Caldera has found success with our new GEOFORUM format. Each region has experienced fabulous attendance and great product demonstrations, breakout sessions and keynotes from Caldera and our partners. Below you will find reports from several of Caldera’s regions regarding their individual success with GEOFORUM.

Take a look at the Caldera regional events…
http://www.caldera.com/partners/estreet/0208/globa l.html

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The Caldera Partner Program Team is dedicated to listening to our partners and creating the program that best works for you. Please provide us with your thoughts regarding the program. We want the program to work for you!

Amy Roberts
Caldera Partner Program
partners@caldera.com

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