Fredrick Domescat writes, “There is an interesting article over at iMacLinux.net that walks you through the steps to seperate the monitor and computer components of your iMac. This is useful if your iMac monitor has been damaged, or if you don’t want to power the monitor all the time. There are several cool screenshots including this one.”

– By Grant Gross –

Several commentators attending the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in New York this week noted that it was all business. Our own Tina Gasperson noted IBM’s “Linux is real business” campaign, but suggested that more business converts to Linux isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

Others called the conference a “yawner,” or suggested the geek types were “bored out of their minds.” The popular Golden Penguin Bowl still went on without a hitch, but many of the Linux faithful seemed disappointed that the show didn’t feel more like a state fair midway.

Among the announcements at LinuxWorld this week:

The Open Source Development Lab set up a “carrier-grade” working group for using Linux in the telecom industry. The lab’s heavyweight board of directors will also “give guidance” to developers in that area, Gasperson reports. Meanwhile, Hewlett-Packard suggested that Linux is the future of telecom, and HP CEO Carly Fiorina delivered the conference keynote.

The Free Standards Group released two standards designed to “allow true interoperability between Linux distributions and better internationalization capabilities.”

IBM’s love affair with Linux and other stuff

IBM suggested it has nearly recouped its $1 billion investment in Linux, and one senior executive there said Linux has saved its server business.

Meanwhile, IBM teamed with MandrakeSoft and a couple of other companies, to pitch a small business server package in Europe, reported Bruce Tober for NewsForge. The official announcement is expected Monday. Also, IBM has expanded its relationship with SuSE, to work on the Linux company’s server operating system.

Not related, but still interesting was the suggestion by one kernel hacker that Linux creator Linux Torvalds might be a bit overloaded. Rod Landley suggested the kernel hacker team go with a penguin patch lieutenant system to get patches integrated faster.

Gasperson reported on desktop company Ximian’s shift away from the GNU GPL for some of the class libraries in its Mono project.

The Register reports that Linux is in the running to power the world’s biggest computer, a huge server farm connected to three U.S. research centers.

The Agenda VR3, one of the first Linux-powered handhelds to market, is apparently not being marketed in the United States anymore. It received lukewarm reviews at best, even from Linux media outlets, when it was released last summer.

New releases

See the stock report below for a couple of releases from Red Hat and Caldera, but a new version of the Ximian Evolution email/calendar program was released this week. This version: 1.0.2.

New at NewsForge and Linux.com

Other stories that NewsForge and Linux.com reported first this week:

Robin “Roblimo” Miller, following up his column, Why bother to use Linux?, wrote Some reasons not to use Linux, which generated a bit of controversy for its critique of some functions of Linux that are not yet ready for prime time, in Robin’s mind.

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols looks at Sun’s decision not to continue supporting its Solaris OS on Intel-based computers and what that means for Linux.

Gasperson reports on a LinuxWorld session with Linux security expert Jay Beale, who reminds us that Linux can have security problems, too.

Stock news

The Nasdaq ended the week at 1,911.24, down from 1,937.70 January 27 and down 22.79 points on Friday. Our list of 11 Open Source-related stocks didn’t get a boost from LinuxWorld, instead following a similar course as the Nasdaq, with only Apple and Borland rising for the week.

Several companies, including at least two on our list, used LinuxWorld to announce new products, however. Caldera shipped both Volution Manger 1.1, a Web-based management and administration tool, and OpenLinux 3.1.1, its workstation and server operating system.

Red Hat unveiled a new version of its Red Hat Network aimed at enterprise customers.

Here’s how Open Source and related stocks ended this past week:

Company Name	Symbol	1/25 Close	2/1 Close
Apple	AAPL	23.25	24.41
Borland Software Int’l	BORL	15.65	16.91
Caldera International	CALD	0.87	0.83
Hewlett-Packard	HWP	22.47	22.00
IBM	IBM	109.28	108.00
MandrakeSoft	4477.PA	e4.44	e4.00
Red Hat	RHAT	8.56	8.45
Sun Microsystems	SUNW	11.16	10.37
TiVo	TIVO	6.76	5.86
VA Software	LNUX	2.42	2.315
Wind River Systems	WIND	18.13	18.05

Help Net Security “Console IOCTLs can be very useful and powerful. These are the IOCTls that involve the console. They are the user interface to manipulation of the console. I am going to go over these console IOCTLs and give you examples of them. You can make some pretty powerful programs, whether they be general utilities or security programs, with these (such as Auto Console Switching and Console Access Protection). The structure of this article will be the name of the IOCTL, and then example source code to uses of the IOCTL.”

David Sugar writes “With this notice, and effective February 1st, PreViking, another GPL’d telephony server developed by Telesave, is officially merged with GNU Bayonne. This has actually been in progress for two months, and represents the combined work carried out on the new BayonneNG cvs tree in anticipation of the 1.0 release of GNU Bayonne.

From an organizational perspective, both Zaheer Merali and Abdul-Wahid Paterson will be joining the GNU Bayonne project. Zaheer will be working primarily on driver integration issues, some of which will be described in a follow-on announcement about the introduction of phonestreamer, and AW will be working on the viking.cpp personality module’s integration with the infotel server as well as standard application services that will be distributed as part of GNU Bayonne 1.0.

Rich Bodo will of course continue to direct the entire gnucomm meta project as a whole and help coordinate between GNU Bayonne and the
remaining gnu telephony related projects, including ipswitch. I am still looking for someone interested in taking over the documentation lead.

All of these things should help accelerate GNU Bayonne development this spring, and I am still expecting to have a 1.0 release ready for
distribution by May, perhaps in time for SANE or the Forum Internacional de Software Livre in Brazil.

In the short term there will be a few more 0.7.x releases. These will resolve any outstanding Dialogic/Intel/Dialogic issues and help introduce the contributed Spanish voice library. As soon as it is a bit more usable, there will be a 0.9.0 release for the new BayonneNG source tree.”

KDE dot reports on a Paris Linux Expo 2002 live KDE coding session, complete with pictures.

InnerPeace Volunteers writes “David Beazley’s Python slides are excellent, and very popular way to learn Python. However, if you wanted to look something up days later, they was no index. There is now.“

Anonymous Reader writes “Here’s The Edge Report‘s last batch of pictures from LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in New York City. Set 6 – Veritas, Intel, hancom (they really like Commander Taco); Set 7 – AMD, Inferno, Linuxfund, Entertainment; Set 8 – Miscellaneous; Set 9 – Miscellaneous, Booth Babes, and New York City.”

Chris Wells writes “From the creators of NEXCESS.NET Web Hosting and Sys Admin Talk comes Java Dev Talk. Java Dev Talk is the place to be to ask questions, get questions answered and discuss anything and everything Java!. It was created by Java developers for Java developers and we hope it will become THE resource for Java developers in need of a place to ask questions and discuss Java!”

February 3 is the fourth anniversary of the term
‘Open Source.’
To mark this occasion, radioqualia is starting to read all 4,141,432 lines of code in the Linux kernel out loud, by “automated computer voices,” over the Internet. Lay in lots of cassettes if you want to tape it all; the reading is expected to last 593.89 days. Hear it here.

InnerPeace Volunteers writes: “If you have a problem you just can’t talk to anybody else

about, tell it to a computer program. Today, after two

years of beta testing,

InnerPeace.Org

released over 100 free self-help chatterbot programs

dealing with everything from addictions to worry, under the

GPL.

An InnerPeace volunteer said, “InnerPeace could help

with LOTS of the world’s suffering if more people knew about

it. During the beta testing of InnerPeace software, we

received reports from people from all over the world who

were pointing, clicking, and transforming their lives using

these programs. We don’t claim that InnerPeace is a cure all,

but we don’t have to take every straw off of the camel’s back

to make a difference, either.”

The InnerPeace programs are easy to use. Written in JavaScript, the

online versions

and the download versions are identical, so you don’t even

need to download them. If you can use the Internet, you can

use InnerPeace. Enjoy InnerPeace. Pass it on.