Tuesday, June 12th, 2001, from the home of Wayne’s World, Aurora IL — Tonight LIVE on
www.thelinuxshow.com

At 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et…. Kevin Hill, Jeff Gerhardt, PJ
Hyett, Doc Searls(Linux Journal), and Arne Flones have what looks to be a
fun show lined up tonight on The Linux Show!! (and yes the Loki tribes
server is up and running)

In Segment One – Hot News: We will be covering the hot Linux news of
the week. In particular, we will talk about the TV Linux Alliance and the
participation in this group by Lineo.

In Segments Two- “The Ripley Project”- wearble Linux Technology
We will be joined by Cliff Leong of
ZeroSpin Inc.http://zerospin.com/ > and we will be discussing the
Ripley Wearable Computer
development project. We were prompted to contact Cliff after posting an
article about the progress of Ripley posted at Linux
Devices web portal.

Ripley has progressed farther than we expected and has released their
Ripley Version 3 based upon 4 boards. This is very cool and pure
un-altered geek.

In Segments Three- Mike O’Dell talks about Linux and Bynari being named
an IBM Business Partner
We will be joined by Mike O’Dell CEO of Bynari(www.bynari.net). Prior to becoming Bynari’s
CEO, Mike started his IT Career at IBM and helped bring UNIXto IBM in the
form of AIX. He ran the LAN products group for IBM.

Mike and a few co-horts then went off to a little startup called Dell
Computers and grew that business to $7.5 billion in sales. When he
decided to move to Dallas to be closer to his family, he went from board
member to CEO of Bynari.

Mike’s a graduate of the US Naval Academy, where is also did his MIS in
Computer Science and created a process for Commercial UNIX as part of his
thesis. He left the Navy as a Commander(what, not a seal? is this guy a
slacker?).

We will discuss the very recent new of Bynari being named as an IBM Business
Partner due in no small measure to the success of Bynari’s Insight
Server On June 7th, Bynari announced that it has been selected as an IBM
eServer z900 and S/390 Business Partner. As an IBM Business Partner, Bynari
will gain greater visibility among IBM customers for the Bynari Insight
Server.

for those who do not know, Insight Server is a Linux software
solution that provides Internet standards-based email and workgroup
collaboration capabilities to connected desktop computers. For example,
Insight Server allows Microsoft Outlook desktops to communicate and
collaborate on a peer-to-peer basis without using Microsoft’s Exchange
server. Insight Server for the z900 and S/390 claims to offer a
viable and cost-effective alternative to other popular messaging solutions
and delivers much higher levels of scalability and availability (TLS does
not know this for a fact because we have never used the product ourselves).
Enterprises with a large population of email and workgroup collaboration
users will recognize significant total cost of ownership benefits through
server consolidation with an IBM-Bynari solution.”

Bynari also offers Insight Server in an entry level version for small to
medium size businesses wanting functionality similar to Microsoft Exchange.
Additionally, Bynari offers its Insight client software product, which
provides features similar to Microsoft Outlook for the Linux desktop.

Bynari is a privately held company headquartered in Dallas, TX. The Company
designs, develops and markets Open Standards-based software products based
on Linux and UNIX which provide advanced messaging, email and workgroup
collaboration capabilities for a number of different operating environments.
More information on Bynari and its products is available at www.bynari.net.

Other opinions are welcome at GeekCast. If you would like to join
us on the show, check our IRC Chat
(irc.thelinuxshow.com #linuxshow).

Remember tune in at 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et.
Catch the Linux show at
www.thelinuxshow.com
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From Reuters (via CNET News.com): “In its research labs in Hillsboro, Oregon, Intel engineers have designed and manufactured a
handful of transistors that are only 20 nanometers, or 0.02 microns, in size. By comparison, the
transistors found in the latest chips in use today measure 0.18 microns from one side of the
transistor gate to the other.”

ZDNet News: “The server market followed PCs into the high-tech slump in the first quarter of 2001, with
worldwide sales of $13.3 billion representing a 4 percent drop from a year ago, research
firm IDC will report Wednesday.”

The latest issue of Simple End User Linux’ Linux in Education report includes coverage of Linux usage at Glendale (Arizona) Union High School District, the METADOT Internet School environment, and the Open Source Digital Library System.

Bluetooth first emerged at Comdex back in 1999, but even the most recent promising advances in the short-range wireless protocol have failed to captivate. Described as a “good technology that hasn’t found its market,” hampered by the high price of chips and lingering concerns that Bluetooth could interfere with 802.11b wireless networks. Full story at PC World.

“Lots of bugs… self explained…” writes the person who submitted this particular issue with Unixware 7.1.1 and rtpm at Help Net Security. A bit difficult to describe within the NewsForge NewsVac section, suffice to say that it includes the phrase “Memory fault” on every other line.

MozillaQuest Magazine reports: “Look for Netscape 6.1 Preview Release 1 (NS 6.1, PR1) soon. The directory for Netscape 6 PR1
already is in place on the Netscape FTP server. However, at publication time the Netscape FTP
server NS 6.1-PR1 directory is not open for public downloading.”

An anonymous reader pointed us in the direction of this press release excerpt at LinuxDevices.com: “Two dozen
companies today announced formation of the TV Linux Alliance, which will define a standards-based Linux
environment for the digital set-top box market. The technology suppliers to cable, satelite, and
telecommunications operators have allied to produce Linux standards designed to improve time-to-market and
product robustness in the advanced set-top box market.”

Help Net Security: “Megyer Laszlo found a printf format bug in the exim mail transfer
agent. The code that checks the header syntax of an email logs
an error without protecting itself against printf format attacks.”

ZDNet’s David Coursey outlines his nine reasons “for reforming people’s wrong-headed notions of Linux.” It’s too complex to become a desktop replacement for Windows, client-side Java hasn’t lived up to its promises, the threat of semi-compatible Linux versions, free software ends up costing companies more in the long run, and so on.