“Having survived a tumultuous development and rollout process, Yopy, which was arguably the first Linux PDA, has arrived in Europe,” says ZDNet.

The News.com story begins, “Those who surf the Web using a Mac tend to be better educated and make more money than their PC-using counterparts, according to a report from Nielsen/NetRatings.” Linux users are not mentioned. Draw your own conclusions.

The News.com story begins, “Those who surf the Web using a Mac tend to be better educated and make more money than their PC-using counterparts, according to a report from Nielsen/NetRatings.” Linux users are not mentioned. Draw your own conclusions.

Wired: “This weekend, a few thousand systems-obsessed individuals will be able to fuel their paranoia in workshops that promise to reveal in hellish detail the wicked machinations of governments and big corporations.

They will also scoff at the misguided attempts of the “amateur” security workers who are charged with keeping them out of computer systems. They will openly share information on how to subvert those computer systems. They will privately worry whether their obsessive need to dissect data could lead to jail time.

And they may create a few balloon animals, engage in a wet underwear contest and reprogram their brains via downloads of tasty adult beverages.”

Wired: ” What’s Palladium? Depending on who you ask, it’s either a catalyst to turn silicon into gold for the PC industry, or it’s the stuff the black helicopters are made of.

Microsoft’s recently announced R&D project, which includes chipmakers Intel and AMD as partners, aims to combine software and hardware extensions to traditional PC architecture. Palladium’s goal: Move security-conscious applications out of the server room and back onto the Windows desktop, by soothing both consumer fears about privacy and corporate concerns over piracy.”

From PCWorld.com: “The hole is created by what is known as a cross-domain scripting flaw. In this case it means that HTML version 4 objects embedded in Web pages and e-mails can include code that allows an attacker to access vulnerable machines, read files and documents, and execute programs on the computer, Pivx says in an advisory.

Pivx describes the vulnerability as “extremely high risk” as it allows the arbitrary execution of programs, unprivileged reading of files, and stealing of server cookies.”

– By David Graham –

Lindows CEO Michael Robertson took a day out of his schedule to address DebConf
2, held at York University a few days ago in Toronto, to
discuss the past, present, and future of the Debian project. Lindows’ business
model, he says, is built around marketing and the need for users to pay a
$99/year subscription fee that, while isn’t required, provides access to software that makes the system fully usable. First though, is a summary of some of the more interesting discussions that took
place at DebConf 2.

Commercial Use of Debian

Debian Project Leader Bdale Garbee
discussed at length the history of Debian’s commercial ventures. Corel, now flying under the banner of Xandros, is the best known of the commercial
attempts of Debian, but two other companies may be getting somewhere with the
effort.

Progeny, run by Debian founder Ian Murdock,
employs six Debian Developers and is working on commercially distributing Debian.

Lindows.com, run by MP3.com founder Michael
Robertson, does not appear to employ any Debian Developers. It has created a
graphical installer for Debian and has repackaged a number of Debian packages.
For a $99/year subscription fee, Lindows hopes to grab some market share from
the “Mom and Grandma” section of the Linux market.

Extreme Perl

Friday night Damian Conway gave his interpretation of extreme programming with
his presentation “Extreme
Perl”. The talk discusses a 999 byte perl program which does some amazing
feats and is rather obfuscated. The short program has a variety of features from
replicating itself to displaying a text marquee on the screen. If you can get to
one of Damian Conway’s talks, by all means go. It is very enlightening.

Free Software in the Third World

Among the topics discussed were the use of free software in third world
countries such as Brazil, presented by Henrique de Moraes Holschuh.

Henrique reported how the use of free software is beginning to narrow a social
gap in Brazil by allowing access to computers without having to pay exhorbatant
licensing costs. Software in Brazil costs an average of 4 times what it does in
North America measured by a function of average income, buying power, and actual
cost. This puts legal commercial software well out of reach of most Brazilian users.

He described conditions in Brazil as being in a state of civil war. The economic
divide between rich and poor is tremendously wide and no one can move up in the
society without any skills. Unskilled labour is easy to come by and not worth
very much.

Free software is allowing people to set up operating systems like Linux on old
hardware and learn to use computers without fear of being talked to by the
authorities about using illegally-obtained software.

Lindows.com

Saturday night, Lindows.com CEO Michael
Robertson spoke to DebConf about his history of running mp3.com and Lindows.com.

Robertson started his talk by discussing his first venture: a digital
camera business. He said the business failed miserably because, and he repeated
this several times through the night, he hadn’t listened to the market.

Down on his luck, he started a digital music exchange site and found that most
users were searching for something he had not heard of before – “MP3.” Not
knowing what it was, he contacted the owner of “mp3.com” in an effort to buy the
domain. The owner of the domain asked what he wanted it for, and Robertson
responded that he wanted to set up an MP3 information site.

The owner of the domain responded, “What is mp3?”

The site got 10,000 unique hits on the first day of operation, and that,
Robertson said, meant he was listening to the customers.

After telling the conference this story, Robertson got on to the meat of his
discussion – Lindows.com.

Lindows, he said, was the frequent target of criticism from NewsForge. For that
he got a chuckle from the whole room.

Lindows, as mentionned above, is based almost entirely on Debian GNU/Linux. For
his presentation, he plugged a laptop into an overhead projector and put in a
Lindows CD. On booting, the installation asked if the system should coexist
with Windows. Upon an answer of no, the installation promptly installed and
booted into a KDE-based graphical environment.

From there, the Lindows system allows the user to pay an annual subscription
service to get access to a service they have termed “Click-N-Run”. Essentially
it is a graphical version of Debian’s apt utility. It downloads a program and it
then becomes available to the user.

A paid subscription service to use a version of Linux? The most enlightening
part of Mr. Robertson’s talk, certainly. It completely explains Lindows’ name
and Microsoft’s
concern about similarity.

Robertson was also pleased about Lindows’ deal with
MicroTel and Walmart.com to sell cheap computers pre-installed with Lindows at Walmart’s on-line store.

Lindows being available on a cheap computer from Walmart sounds really good on
the surface, but is it really any help?

Consider that Microsoft is asking users to pay a subscription fee for Windows
XP updates. The concept is remarkably similar to Lindows’ concept of a subscription fee-based system for additional services — primarily upgrades. Now consider that
people buying MicroTel’s computers at Walmart are probably choosing those
computers for their economy: They’re cheap, they come with Linux on them, and
for users not philosophically inclined to use Linux, these computers’ primary advantage comes from their low cost. So lo, “mom and grandma” type users have bought this cheap computer
in an effort to avoid the high cost of ownership of a Windows system, and bam,
to get the services they are told they need, they have to pay
a $99/year subscription fee. The advantage of cost has just been sent out the
window.

Ultimately, it seems, Lindows’ efforts can’t help Linux. When a user uses it,
they’ll find it to be not terribly different from the Windows they left,
including its cost, and Linux will not seem like much of a “free” alternative.

I’m sorry, Mr. Robertson, but yes, we do pick on you quite regularly and it
seems to me we’ve got reason to.

That said, thank you Lindows for supper Saturday night. I was getting kind of
tired of fast food from the student centre.

Linux Standard Base (LSB) and Debian –
Matt Taggart’s talk

Matt Taggart opened Sunday morning with a discussion of Debian and the Linux
Standard Base. The Linux Standard Base provides a set of standards by which all
Linux distributions should set up their base systems. This does not preclude
multiple distributions and multiple layouts, it only ensures that it is not
impossible to cross-port applications within versions of Linux.

Debian expects to be the first fully compliant distribution by version 3.1.
Debian is being used as a pilot project for LSB to test the standards and make
sure they make sense and there are no gaping holes.

Supporting the users

David B. Harris spent Sunday afternoon discussing how projects like Debian
should go about supporting their users.

Harris is a package maintainer for Debian and spends a lot of time trying to
help users in channel #debian on irc.debian.org. From there he has gained a good
deal of experience with helping users and has a number of recommendations for
the Debian community.

His main recommendation is the creation of a knowledge database. Currently there exists an
attempt at a knowledge database in the form of an IRC bot named ‘apt’ at the aformentioned
channel. When a user has a question, a quick instruction to
the bot will often tell the user the answer they need, and this is sufficient to
help the majority of users seeking help. A further knowledge base would be a
more complete version of that bot which could be used both on and off IRC.

Mailing lists are another
major source of support for users. Debian has a mailing list called
debian-user@lists.debian.org. This list has an enormous amount of traffic, and
often the same questions are asked over and over. An improved mailing list
system is needed, Harris argues.

One suggestion was the creation of a support@debian.org address where users
could respond to users from the knowledge database, or, failing that, forward
the email to the appropriate developer or list. This would allow filtration of
questions, and important questions would get asked in lists with a good signal to noise ratio.

The Debian/BSD project

The maintainers of the Debian/FreeBSD, Debian/NetBSD, and Debian/OpenBSD
updated present members on the status of each of their projects. Essentially,
all three of the Debian ports have bootable versions, but none of them are ready
for mainstream use.

When the Debian/BSD projects are complete, Debian will be supported on 12 hardware architectures
and 5 kernels:
Hardware platforms:

• Intel x86 / IA-32 (i386)
• Motorola 68k (m68k)
• Sun SPARC (sparc)
• Alpha (alpha)
• Motorola/IBM PowerPC
  (powerpc)
• ARM (arm)
• Sun UltraSPARC (sparc64)
• MIPS CPUs (mips and mipsel)
• HP PA-RISC (hppa)
• IA-64 (ia64)
• S/390 (s390)
• SuperH (sh)

Supported kernels:

• GNU/Linux
• GNU/HURD
• NetBSD
• OpenBSD
• FreeBSD

The conference was concluded by a totally off-topic but very interesting talk by
Debian Project Leader Bdale Garbee on his involvement with AMSAT – an organisation which has so far put 40
amateur satellites into space.

When I started MP3.com four years ago, I knew that I was building something that would pave the landscape of the future of music delivery. I knew this because I listened to the consumer and not the “experts.†I was told repeatedly that MP3s’ digital delivery was a bad idea. “It would never work,†the naysayers parroted. Seeing every variation of MP3 technology displayed in windows and shelves confirms that MP3.com help push music technology to the mainstream.
I knew MP3.com would flourish, just as I know Lindows.com will flourish because of the creative minds that sought change in music delivery are the same type of minds that seek change now on the desktop.

Many may have overlooked the fact that brilliant minds have been hard at work creating a huge amount of applications for Linux. There are already hundreds of cool applications that are free or just pennies on the dollar, (in contrast hundreds of dollars people now pay for Microsoft applications).

In an effort to honor and recognize these creators Lindows.com has just announced the Clicky Awards. The Clicky Awards will recognize a total of 18 different programs giving away more than $50,000 of award money to developers or groups of developers that have done the most to further the availability of high-quality consumer software on the Linux Desktop. Please nominate your favorite Linux programs by visiting http://www.lindows.com/nominations

Recipients of the Clicky Awards will receive $5,000 for first place, $3,000 for second place and $1,000 for third place. The winners of the Clicky Awards will be announced on August 31st.

The Clicky Awards will be acknowledging the top three applications in the following 6 categories.

1) Audio and MP3
2) Business and Finance
3) Games
4) Home and Education
5) Internet

6) Multimedia and Design

If your not sure of what applications are available please visit the Lindows.com Click-N-Run Warehouse and take a look at just some of the possible applications to nominate. ( We have published over 1,300 applications, but no doubt other great applications are out there.) The Click-N-Run technology makes it easy to download, install and run hundreds of products when running LindowsOS.

Or better yet, if you want to actually try out some of the applications you can order and download LindowsOS at www.lindows.com/signup. Installation is super-easy (see www.tryoutlinux.com) so you can Click-N-Run software in just minutes.

Michael Robertson

Please visit support.lindows.com to answers questions you may have about LindowsOS or Lindows.com.

Bringing Choice to Your Computer!

Lindows.com is a consumer company that brings choice to computer users. Lindows.com, Inc. was started by Michael Robertson, founder and former CEO of MP3.com. LindowsOS is a modern, affordable, easy-to-use operating system that allows users access to hundreds of applications via the Click-N-Runâ„¢ Warehouse. All applications in the Click-N-Run Warehouse are licensed on a per-person or family basis and can be downloaded, installed and run with just one-mouse click. LindowsOS is also available on LindowsOS Certified Computers from Walmart.com. To signup as a Builder being click here. The General Release of LindowsOS, available now for download and preview to Lindows.com Insiders, will be made available later this year for those wishing to install and run LindowsOS on their existing computer hardware. The General Release version will support a wider range of computer hardware and includes unique features such as a “Friendly-Install†alongside an existing Microsoft® Windows operating system, a streamlined installation process which requires no computer knowledge, and the ability to run a select set of “bridge” Windows-compatible programs. For more information see www.lindows.com/products

LindowsOS and Lindows.com are trademarks of Lindows.com, Inc. Linux® is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Microsoft® Windows® operating system is a registered trademark or service mark of the Microsoft Corporation.

“This Week’s Summary: What’s Cookin’ at MandrakeSoft?; Mandrake in the
News; The Latest MandrakeClub Activities; Business Case of the Week;
Security-related Software Updates; Headlines from MandrakeForum.”

What's Cookin' at MandrakeSoft?
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Terminal Server Mandrake.
Initial work has been done to integrate a terminal-server project into 
the latest Cooker. The new package is based on work by Michael Brown, 
with minor modifications by MandrakeSoft, as well as the addition of a 
"drakTermServ" configuration tool. Stew Benedict adds: "Please test the 
package and let me know how it goes. If you find things I overlooked or 
have suggestions for improvement, please pass them on."
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?lang=en&sid=2279

Good News for RAID users.
Mandrake's graphical installer already has a powerful partitioning 
program and supports the widest range of journaling filesystems. 
Support has now been added to detect existing software RAID. When RAID 
users install the next release of Mandrake Linux, the graphical 
installer will automatically see any existing RAID partitions.
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?lang=en&sid=2277


Mandrake in the News
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Many news outlets covered MandrakeSoft's press release about United 
Linux, including:

ZDnet.com -- MandrakeSoft rejects UnitedLinux.
"MandrakeSoft, maker of one of the more popular versions of Linux, says 
it will not join a new initiative combining several of its competitors' 
products, on the grounds that the move would damage Mandrake's own 
offering -- and that its competitors have chosen the wrong path to 
follow."
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-941468.html

OFB.biz -- MandrakeSoft Will Not Unite with UnitedLinux.
The "Open For Business" website writes:
"MandrakeSoft has released a statement detailing the reasons why 
Mandrake will not join United Linux. The two key reasons for the 
decision repeated through out the document consisted of UnitedLinux's 
non-Free nature and lack of any advantages for MandrakeSoft."
http://ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=136


MandrakeClub
----------------------------------------
The new MandrakeClub Forum is now open, and everyone is invited to stop 
by and check it out. Deno adds: "Which categories should we have, and 
which forums should be within each of them?" The forum already contains 
topics such as:
 * Future -- What's good, what's bad, and where should MandrakeClub go
   in the future?
 * RPMs -- This is the place to go if you have suggestions for
   new/updated RPMs.
http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Splatt_Forum&file=index

--

Get your own Mandrake cap with a 25% discount.
Summertime is the perfect time for an official "Mandrake Star Cap" -- 
and Club members receive a 25% discount. This latest goodie is a 
great-looking, high-quality cap designed for all Linux fans. The 
Mandrake Star Cap is black with a white Mandrake Star embroidered on 
the front, and "www.mandrakelinux.com" on the side. Now shipping 
worldwide, including the US.

To receive your Club discount, just enter your login & password on the 
"Checkout" page. The final price is only $12 plus shipping. Offer 
expires August 1st.
http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=47

Not yet a Mandrake Club member? To learn more, please visit:
http://mandrakelinux.com/en/club/


Business Case of the Week
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Computer Services: Mandrake means more jobs and bigger profits for me.
"4ward Computer Services" is an Australian Computer Service business 
that focuses on looking after other Small to Medium-sized businesses. 
They use Mandrake Linux to win contracts and sales from their 
competitors.

Harry Phillips, Director of 4ward Computer Services, adds: "I have had 
several clients actually complain that I have not restarted the server 
in over a month [...] Word has spread throughout the business community 
and we are no longer advertising, we are just too flat out trying to 
keep up with the work we have on our plate at the moment.
http://www.mandrakebizcases.com/article.php?sid=313

Every "bizcase" counts; please share your story by submitting it to 
MandrakeBizcases.com
http://www.mandrakebizcases.com/submit.php


Software Updates
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Security-related software updates have been released for:

LPRng -- fixes insecure default configuration
kernel -- fixes multiple vulnerabilities
openssh -- fixes remote vulnerability

Please note that kernel upgrades should not be done via MandrakeUpdate. 
To learn how to update your kernel the proper way, read "The Black 
Magic of Updating" at MandrakeSecure.net:
http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/magic.php
Also, please be sure to read the kernel advisory before upgrading your 
system:
http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/2002/MDKSA-2002-041.php


Headlines from MandrakeForum
----------------------------------------
Mouse Gestures in Mozilla.
Tom describes how to invoke browser actions (such as going to previous 
page, close window, open new window, etc) with predefined mouse 
movements. 
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?lang=en&sid=2278

An ISO for the impatient.
"lightspeed" has put together an ISO of packages that were not included 
in the 8.2 Powerpack (due to space limitations), plus all of the 
software updates as of 02 Jul 02. Deno clarifies: "MandrakeSoft has 
nothing to do with these ISOs, except that they are (mostly?) filled 
with Mandrake RPMs."
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?lang=en&sid=2274

Read these and other stories at MandrakeForum.
http://www.MandrakeForum.com/

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News and notes from inside Red Hat.

-----------IN THIS ISSUE-----------
- Red Hat annual report now available
- New course teaches enterprise systems deployment and 
management
- Teaming up with HP to deliver Advanced Server on HP hardware
- Say hello to Mr. Project
- Tips and Tricks: Fun with Evolution mail filtering
- Q&A: Chris Blizzard, Red Hat Systems Engineer/Stunt Double
- The *almost official* Linux summer reading list 
- Get information quickly with Safari Tech Books Online
- Maximize application development productivity with 
Borland Kylix
-----------IN EVERY ISSUE-----------
- Ask Shadowman: Applications running on Red Hat Linux
- This Month's Webcasts
- Upcoming events: LinuxWorld
- Red Hat in the news
- Under the Brim Contest 33: World Cup Culture
- Under the Brim Contest 34: Letting it All Hang Out at LW
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RED HAT ANNUAL REPORT NOW AVAILABLE 

We have just released Red Hat's 2002 Annual Report--highlighting
customers like Amazon.com, DreamWorks, and British Petroleum, 
and a school system in North Carolina, that have migrated to 
Red Hat Linux.

Take a look:

http://redhat.rsc03.net/servlet/cc5?joQSYDTVlpgHoKLLxlHuiHIHPQjjQJhuV2VR

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NEW LEARNING COURSE TEACHES ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS 
DEPLOYMENT AND MANAGMENT

The number and breadth of applications included with 
Red Hat Linux and Red Hat Linux Advanced Server is enormous. 
A few important ones you should know:

rpm -- Red Hat's package management system
cvs -- a powerful version control mechanism
up2date -- the core client application of Red Hat Network
sysctl -- a mechanism for configuring runtime kernel settings

Red Hat Linux Advanced Server provides additional applications 
for configuring and managing high-availability and load-balancing 
clusters, including:

cluconfig -- failover configuration utility
cluadmin -- failover service configuration utility
clustat -- terminal-based monitoring utility
Cluster Viewer -- web-based monitoring of failover clusters 
piranha -- suite of utilities for load balancing

Red Hat Global Learning Services is pleased to announce a new 
course, Red Hat Enterprise Deployment and Systems Management, 
that shows how to use these and other applications to manage 
multiple systems efficiently and effectively. 

Please note that this is an advanced class, and that course 
participants must have RHCE or equivalent-level skills and 
knowledge.

Learn about this course:

http://redhat.rsc03.net/servlet/cc5?joQSYDTVlpgHoKLLxlHuiHIHPQjjQJhuV2VS

Get additional training information:

North America:

http://redhat.rsc03.net/servlet/cc5?joQSYDTVlpgHoKLLxlHuiHIHPQjjQJhuV2VUB

Europe:

http://redhat.rsc03.net/servlet/cc5?joQSYDTVlpgHoKLLxlHuiHIHPQjjQJhuV2VT

Asia-Pacific:

http://redhat.rsc03.net/servlet/cc5?joQSYDTVlpgHoKLLxlHuiHIHPQjjQJhuV2VU

Japan

http://redhat.rsc03.net/servlet/cc5?joQSYDTVlpgHoKLLxlHuiHIHPQjjQJhuV2VW

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TEAMING UP TO DELIVER ADVANCED SERVER ON HP HARDWARE

In a June 18 announcement, HP and Red Hat committed to 
certify and release Red Hat Linux Advanced Server across 
HP's Proliant Servers, blade servers, and Intel Itanium 2-based 
servers and workstations--expecting to be the first 
Advanced Server/Itanium 2-based systems available. 
Read more:

http://redhat.rsc03.net/servlet/cc5?joQSYDTVlpgHoKLLxlHuiHIHPQjjQJhuV2VY

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SAY HELLO TO MR. PROJECT

You've said it before. "I wish there was a 'Microsoft Project' for
Linux." Well, stop it. There is! Mr. Project. And it ships with Red Hat
Linux 7.3. It has everything you're looking for in a project 
management tool: Gantt charts, task wizards, at-a-glance calendars. 
Want to take a look? We'll show you:

http://redhat.rsc03.net/servlet/cc5?joQSYDTVlpgHoKLLxlHuiHIHPQjjQJhuV2VA

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TIPS AND TRICKS: FUN WITH EVOLUTION MAIL FILTERING

In this month's edition of Tips and Tricks we introduce Evolution, an
Outlook-style mail client for Linux, and focus on one of our favorite
features: mail filtering.

Get the tips:

http://redhat.rsc03.net/servlet/cc5?joQSYDTVlpgHoKLLxlHuiHIHPQjjQJhuV2VB

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Q&A: MOZILLA 1.0 - CHRIS BLIZZARD, SYSTEMS ENGINEER/
STUNT DOUBLE

Last month, the Mozilla.org group released the long-anticipated 
Mozilla web browser version 1.0--nearly four years in the making. 
Under the Brim sat down with Chris Blizzard, Red Hat's main 
contributor to the project, to discuss Mozilla, the state of the 
web browser, and the far-reaching benefits of reading the 
Economist.

Read the interview:

http://redhat.rsc03.net/servlet/cc5?joQSYDTVlpgHoKLLxlHuiHIHPQjjQJhuV2VC

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THE *ALMOST OFFICIAL* LINUX SUMMER READING LIST

The World Cup is over. Nothing but reruns on television. Too hot 
to go outside. (At least in our part of the world.) So what now? 
Read! Here are five books on our summer reading list. 
If you want, you can put them on yours. 

p.s. Why do we link to Amazon.com for these books? Because 
Amazon.com runs Red Hat Linux, of course... 

1. "Running Linux"
Matt Welsh, et al (O'Reilly)

The one-stop guide to installing, maintaining, networking Linux.
Includes a comprehensive installation tutorial, info on system
maintenance, tools for document development and programming. 
Plus, there's a really cool cowboy on the cover.

http://redhat.rsc03.net/servlet/cc5?joQSYDTVlpgHoKLLxlHuiHIHPQjjQJhuV2VD

2. "Linux in a Nutshell" 
Ellen Siever, et al (O'Reilly)

If "Running Linux" is Batman, this is Robin. Spock to Captain Kirk. 
Or Mini-Me to Dr. Evil. Whatever. "Linux in a Nutshell" makes the 
perfect sidekick--a quick and complete guide to the core commands 
of Linux. 

http://redhat.rsc03.net/servlet/cc5?joQSYDTVlpgHoKLLxlHuiHIHPQjjQJhuV2VSR

3. "Red Hat Linux Networking and System Administration"
Terry Collings and Kurt Wall (Red Hat Press)

Ok, so this is a plug for a Red Hat Press book. So what. Read it 
and you'll see why. It delivers the goods--everything you need to 
know to set up and manage a Linux network. Also includes strategies 
for maintaining system security. 

http://redhat.rsc03.net/servlet/cc5?joQSYDTVlpgHoKLLxlHuiHIHPQjjQJhuV2VSS

4. "Red Hat Linux Survival Guide"
Mohammed J. Kabir (Red Hat Press)

A survival guide you'll actually use. Not like those books that tell 
you what to do if you're walking in the woods and a bear jumps out 
and takes your arm off. As the back cover says, "Exceptionally clear 
instructions for installation, upgrades, and dual-booting." 

http://redhat.rsc03.net/servlet/cc5?joQSYDTVlpgHoKLLxlHuiHIHPQjjQJhuV2VST

5. "The Future of Ideas"
Lawrence Lessig (Vintage Books)

Ok, serious reading now. Want to know about the future of 
intellectual property and copyright law?  Read this. Technology 
is the new frontier. Mega-corporations are ready to snap it up 
like greedy real estate developers when we're not looking.

http://redhat.rsc03.net/servlet/cc5?joQSYDTVlpgHoKLLxlHuiHIHPQjjQJhuV2VSU

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GET INFORMATION QUICKLY WITH SAFARI TECH BOOKS ONLINE

Maybe you just need some specific information from a book and 
you need it now. Here's an easy way to get instant access to 
hundreds of top technology books right at your desktop. Red Hat 
and O'Reilly have teamed up to offer this convenient service 
through Safari Tech Books Online.  

Subscribe to the Safari service and you can:
- Access the latest titles from the world's foremost IT publishers
- Select the book you want, view the chapter or section you need
immediately online
- Paste code to save time and eliminate typographical errors
- Make notes on the material you find useful 
- Choose whether or not to share them with your work group
- Customize a library for you, your department, or your entire
organization
- Pay only for what you need

Learn more about subscribing to Safari: 

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MAXIMIZE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT PRODUCTIVITY ON 
RED HAT LINUX WITH KYLIX

Borland Kylix brings the advantages of rapid application 
development (RAD) to Red Hat Linux, delivering integrated 
native compilers and debuggers, and an intuitive IDE. 

With two-way visual development 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.

Learn more about the upcoming release of Borland C++ for 
Linux or download Kylix Open Edition or Kylix Enterprise Trial: 

http://redhat.rsc03.net/servlet/cc5?joQSYDTVlpgHoKLLxlHuiHIHPQjjQJhuV2VSY

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ASK SHADOWMAN: APPLICATIONS RUNNING ON RED HAT LINUX

He can lobby Congress with one hand, throunce you at Galaga 
with the other! He maps the human genome with an Atari 2600 
and a Pong paddle! The tri-county squat-lifting championship is 
his to lose!... He's the Shadowman... And last month we asked you 
to send him your questions about Red Hat Linux applications.

Read Shadowman's answers in all their molar-grinding brilliance

http://redhat.rsc03.net/servlet/cc5?joQSYDTVlpgHoKLLxlHuiHIHPQjjQJhuV2VSA

NEXT MONTH: Imagine you're at LinuxWorld and you see 
Shadowman. What's the one technical question you would 
ask him?

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quickly, plus customize and scale your system as your needs grow. 
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UNDER THE BRIM CONTEST 33: WORLD CUP CULTURE

Last month we asked for your stories about how Linux has brought 
you closer to another culture. Much like the World Cup has done 
for billions of people around the world. 

And just for the sake of curiosity, we also asked you to pick a 
World Cup winner. Brazil was a top (and wise) choice, along with 
England, Germany, Argentina, and Portugal.

Now for the honorable mentions. From Alex T.: 

"When I picked up the Linux box the girl standing next to me said, 
wow, you use Linux as well? From that chance meeting we have had 
a couple of dates! I'm Australia and she's Vietnamese :)  and go go 
Korea for the world cup!"

This story came from Paul N.:

"Funny you should mention Brazil, because that's where I finally 
made the culture connection with Linux. I was in the state of 
Sao Paulo, in Ribeirao Preto. One day, this fellow we were talking 
to on the road asked us "Hey, any of you heard about Linux?" I could 
hardly contain myself. Looks like he was installing Linux (I don't 
remember the distro) on his system, and couldn't figure out what to 
do with fdisk (this was a while ago). So, we popped on in his house, 
and one 2 liter bottle of Guarana later, he was the proud owner of 
a fully functional Linux system! It was nice to be able to communicate 
with someone about such a topic as computers and Linux, finally!"

"Oh, and about that Cup? I haven't been following it, but if I had,
Brazil!"

(Good choice, Paul.)

And our winner, from Saravanan K.S.: 

"Actually, I've not learned any foreign language or culture using 
Linux but I can very well relate it to a practice in our own culture 
in India. Whenever someone wants to build a temple here, the person, 
even if he is rich enough to fund for the entire project, collects 
contributions from the society and uses it to build the temple. There 
is a very big social moral behind it. In this way no individual actually 
becomes proprietor of the temple which is supposed to be a place 
open  for the various entities of the society. Hence the purpose of 
service of  the temple is not disturbed. Wherever I've delegated Linux, 
I've used this point to gain mindshare of people for Linux against the 
myth stating that 'there is no ownership for Linux.'"

Saravanan also gave us a thoroughly complex mathematical 
calculation that proved Brazil would win the Cup. We couldn't 
argue with the logic, and apparently neither could Germany...

Congratulations!
 
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UNDER THE BRIM CONTEST 34: LETTING IT ALL HANG OUT AT 
LINUXWORLD

LinuxWorld is coming. (Get your free pass here.)

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Get ready. Because you'll see it all at a technology tradeshow:
Magicians, hired hucksters, provocatively dressed women 
applying temporary tattoos on tradeshow attendees and 
snapping Polaroids to preserve the moment. We've seen it. 
It happens. 

There are no limits to the depths some companies will go to 
attract attention.

Ok, maybe there are limits. You're going to help us find out. Your 
task for contest 34: Come up with the best way we can attract 
attention to the Red Hat booth. No matter how wild or shameless. 
It helps if your entry somehow relates to Red Hat or Linux. But as 
past tradeshows will tell you--that's not always necessary.

If your suggestion wins, and it won't get us arrested, we just might 
do it. The winner will also get a free Red Hat t-shirt, so new it 
hasn't been released to the public...

Send your entry to feedback@redhat.com

And hey, if you attend LinuxWorld, drop by and tell us you read 
Under The Brim. We like that.

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