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At 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et…. Kevin Hill, Jeff Gerhardt, Doc
Searls (Linux Journal), Arne Flones and Russ Pavlicek; have another strange and wonderful show lined up tonight on The Linux Show!!
In Segment One – Hot News: We will be covering the hot news that effects the Linux and open Source communities over the last few weeks. In particular we will discuss the Real Names saga (can we say we told them so), and how Microsoft once again let a company develop a market for them, then knifed them to death. Tonight we coin a new term for Microsoft’s predatory behavior, “Corparicide”. Check out http://www.teare.com/ for comments and details from former Real Names CEO Keith Teare. Keith will be joining us for the news segment(probably a bit extended tonight). People keep on saying we are spending too much time talking about Microsoft, but hey folks, look at what they are doing. DOJ WAKE UP!!!!!
In Segment Two – Codeweavers
We are joined tonight by Jeremy White CEO and founder of Codeweavers, Inc. Codeweavers provides products and services that help users make the transition from the Windows OS to the Linux OS by making it possible to use Windows software on Linux. They are a primary proponent of Wine. Their business model is to help customers leverage Windows technology on Linux via Codeweavers expertise in Wine.
What is WINE?
Well, if you have been living with your head in a hole, wine is an implementation of the Windows Win32 and Win16 APIs on top of X and Unix. Wine is not an emulator. Think of Wine as a Windows compatibility layer. Wine provides both a development toolkit (Winelib) for porting Windows sources to Unix and a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows 3.x/95/98/ME/NT/W2K/XP binaries to run under Intel Unixes.
Codeweavers did not “invent” Wine
The Wine project started in 1993 as a way to support running Windows 3.1 programs on Linux. Bob Amstadt was the original coordinator, but turned it over fairly early on to Alexandre Julliard, who has run it ever since.
About Jer-
Jer graduated from Carleton College, in Northfield, Minnesota with a BA in Physics. Jeremy first worked with Slackware Linux in the early 1990’s, and quickly became enamoured of the Free Software movement. Jeremy took that interest in open source and Founded CodeWeavers, Inc. One day, while looking for an Atari 2600 emulator, Jeremy stumbled across the Wine project, and was captivated by both the challenge and promise of Wine. This eventually led to the reorganization of CodeWeavers around the Wine project, and the rest as they say is history. Jeremy is active in a number of Linux community groups, but spends the bulk of his free time playing with his two children.
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Sun Microsystems announces a higher-end addition to its Cobalt line of Linux-powered servers today: up to a 1.26 GHz Pentium processor, two 80-gig hard drives and 2 gigs of SDRAM aimed at small to medium enterprises.
The RaQ 550, with an updated easily configurable Web-based GUI similar to the ones offered on other Cobalt models, will be available June 10 with a price tag of $1,699 to $2,899, depending on the configuration of the machine. The goal of the Web interface is “extreme ease of use.”
Glenn Jacklyn, product manager for the RaQ 550, says the edge server is aimed at smaller enterprises using Windows NT boxes. The RaQ 550 will have the Linux 2.4 kernel, the XFS journaling file system, the Apache webserver, and an active monitoring feature for the system. The boxes will also include port-scan detection and buffer overflow protection. Jacklyn also talks up the machine’s “tool-free” cover removal.
Jacklyn says the Cobalt team isn’t hearing a lot of concerns from companies considering a switch to Linux; instead, companies are asking about how they can avoid Windows’ famous security problems. Questions about Linux itself are few, he says.
Mark Melenovsky, the research manager in the server group at IDC says the new higher powered Cobalt server is a positive step for Sun, although the company will still have stiff price competition from companies such as Dell.
With the new RaQ 550, Sun should still spark interest among companies looking for easily configurable servers, Melenovsky says. “I think increasingly the Compaqs and Dells of the world are addressing that,” he adds. “But Cobalt should still ride that wave a for a little bit.”
PerlMx provides enterprises with a complete email security solution by identifying and quarantining spam, protecting against viruses, enforcing corporate communications compliance policies, and allowing mail administrators to automatically compile usage statistics. The powerful content security features protect enterprises against productivity losses, network downtime, and vulnerability of informational assets.
Spam is widely recognized as a growing problem. Internet research company Jupiter Media Metrix estimates that by 2006 junk emails will more than double, with the average user receiving 1,400 spam emails, totaling over 206 billion in the US alone. Present attempts to address this, either through self-regulation by the direct marketing industry, or through identification of known spammers, have been ineffective. An ActiveState study found that only 2% of UCE (unsolicited commercial email) is guideline compliant, and that only 31% of spam is identified by the most common anti-spam method, realtime blackhole lists (RBL).
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“The growing flood of spam is a significant productivity issue for enterprises, who are increasingly using email as a critical communications tool,” said Dick Hardt, Founder & CEO, ActiveState. “Our anti-spam filter utilizes several analytical techniques to reach the high 98% spam block rate, which we are constantly adapting and updating as spammers become more sophisticated.”
“Perhaps the single biggest thrust of PerlMx 2.0 has been to make it trivially easy to install, configure and run the product, to the point where knowledge of Perl is not a prerequisite,” said Gurusamy Sarathy, PerlMx Tech Lead. “Various standard filters are available to address most common email content management needs, including spam and virus protection. And when it comes to extending or customizing it to fit unique needs, email content managers have at their disposal the world’s most powerful text processing language, Perl.”
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