Info World reports that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the body responsible for overseeing the Internet’s naming records is advising strongly against anyone using prergistration services on domains to be introduced later this year. No company has been authorised to preregister domains and people who do have no guarantee they’ll get the domain they signed up for.

Kelly McNeill writes “Internet mail will win the market for the server appliance. Internet usage and the changing enterprise space has Linux poised to take the whole market. Is anything stopping it? You mean besides the Linux distribution companies?
…
Linux distribution companies lack marketing and product development skill. They depend on Linux alone to build their business for them. That’s not sufficient.”

Australian IT reports that the Australian Government is looking into the movie industry’s practice of encoding DVDs by region as being anticompetitive and illegal.

In his last column for LinuxWorld, editor Joe Barr hosts a discussion with Red Hat chairman Bob Young and “Jim Allmouth,” big dog at an un-named technology titan. Mr. Mouth, got to the point quickly, asking Young: “With a name like Red Hat Linux, how can you protect the company from becoming un-American? Especially when so many Linux hackers are not American. Can you deny that neither Linus Torvalds nor Alan Cox is American?”

IT-Director comments on the new Linux ad campaign from Big Blue: “As we understand it, IBM’s Linux promotion policy comes direct from Lou Gerstner and IBM intends to play this card for all it is worth. IBM is going to try to convince the corporates from the top down that Linux is ready for prime time. It scales, it’s robust and it’s versatile. Peace, love and Linux.”

The Duke of URL reviews the latest SuSE Linux distribution: “With their latest release, SuSE moves to the front of the pack. SuSE Version 7.1 has emerged, incorporating features that users have been clamoring for over the last few months. Not the least of which are kernel 2.4, XFree86 4.02 and KDE 2.01, three of the largest and most popular upgrades for Linux users that have appeared this year. In addition SuSE also maintains backwards compatibility for users who are more conservative by including kernel 2.2.18 and KDE 1.1.2.”

“Today, SuSE Linux, the international technology leader and provider of Open Source solutions, announced the upcoming release of SuSE Linux 7.1 PowerPC Edition in early April. SuSE supplies the latest Linux operating system and more than 1,000 assorted applications for Mac users on 6 CDs. With SuSE’s optimized Kernel 2.4.2 SuSE Linux 7.1 PowerPC Edition boasts a greatly enhanced USB support. SuSE Linux 7.1 PowerPC Edition also features the support for the sound system ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) for PowerMacs.” Read the press release at LinuxPR.

Denver, CO (March 28, 2001) — Colorado Linux Info Quest 2001 is set to take the Front Range of Colorado by storm at the Denver Marriott Tech Center, Thursday and Friday, March 29th and 30th.

An all star lineup of speakers, headed by keynote speaker David L. Sifry of Linuxcare, is headed to Denver this week. Sifry, Chief Technology Officer of Linuxcare, brings his technical expertise, engaging personality and survival instincts from a company that has beaten the odds to become a top tier provider of software and services for the Linux industry.

CLIQ 2001 Speaker Lineup

The current set of invited talks includes the following:

Keynote David A. Sifry, CTO of Linuxcare.

* Business Track

1. “Linux Games: Where do we go from here?”; Scott Draeker,
Co-founder and CEO of Loki Entertainment Software
2. The State of Embedded Linux, Rick Lehrbaum, Founder, LinuxDevices.com
3. Return on Investment in the Open Source Movement, Patrick
Lannigan, VP of Business Development, NuSphere

* Desktop Track

1. Introduction to the Linux Command Line; Jon Lasser, author of
“Think Unix”.
2. Panel discussion on the Linux desktop featuring
Daryll Strauss, Multimedia and Graphics Engineering Practice
Lead at VA Linux Systems
Kurt Granroth, KDE Core Developer/Evangelist, SuSE Labs
David A. Desrosiers, Linuxcare
Michael J. Hammel, CLIQ Chairman and Senior Editor of LWN.net
3. An Introduction to the GNOME and KDE Desktops; Kurt Granroth, KDE

* Development Track

1. Porting Debian to PA-RISC and IA-64; Bdale Garbee, Debian
2. Open Source Content Management; Paul Everitt, CEO of Digital
Creations, makers of the Zope Web publishing package.
3. “ALL YOUR PALM ARE BELONG TO US!”; David A. Desrosiers, Linuxcare,
current maintainer of the Pilot Link software

The current set of Birds of a Feather Sessions includes the following:

* Room: Conifer 1

1. Linux Security and Packet Filtering: Kevin Fenzi, tummy.com
2. Linux Systems Administration: James Davis (jdavis@navidec.com),
Art Walker
3. Linux as an Enterprise Platform: Paul Lussier, Mission Critical
Linux
4. Debian: Bdale Garbee, Debian Developer
5. XFree86 and the Linux Desktop: Daryll Strauss, XFree86 team and
VA Linux Systems
6. Colorado Open Source Projects: Luke Jones, CLIQ Board Member

* Room: Conifer 2

1. A Project To Implement DII COE on Linux: Ron Brodberg
2. Zope: Paul Everitt, CEO, Digital Creations (makers of Zope)
3. Linux in Education: Matthew M. Schmidt
4. Linux Clusters: Ron Reeder
5. HP’s Linux Activities in Ft. Collins: Alan Meyer, HP R&D Manager,
Linux Kernel Development
6. PHP: Scott Marlow, IHS

* Room: Conifer 3

1. XML: Uche Ogbuji, Forethought, Inc.

2. Converting a business to Linux: John T. Taber, Ph.D., Tabermatics, Inc.

3. Open Source Development Laboratory: Tim Witham, OSDL Lab Director

4. Python: Sean Reifschneider, Co-Founder, tummy.com

5. High Availability Linux: Alan Robertson, Linux High Availability Project

6. Jabber Instant Messaging: Peter Saint-Andre, Jabber.com

About CLIQ

Colorado Linux Info Quest, known as CLIQ to it’s members, is a registered non-profit organization in the state of Colorado. It is comprised of volunteers from regional Linux user groups throughout the Colorado Front Range. The aim of CLIQ is to assist both individual hobbyists and businesses in the Rocky Mountain and Central US regions find answers to the question “What can I do with Linux?”

CLIQ 2001 will be held at the Denver Marriott Tech Center on March 30th, with “at the door” registration open on March 29th and 30th. The Denver Marriott Tech Center is located just east of I-25 and Belleview Blvd. in the Denver Tech Center. More information can be found on our web site at http://thecliq.org.

CLIQ 2001 will be held at the Denver Marriott Tech Center on March 30th, with “at the door” registration open on March 29th and 30th. The Denver Marriott Tech Center is located just east of I-25 and Belleview Blvd. in the Denver Tech Center. More information can be found on our web site at http://thecliq.org.

Contact Information

CLIQ Chairman:

Michael J. Hammel

mjhammel@thecliq.org

mjhammel@graphics-muse.org

CLIQ Vendor Contact:

Kevin Cullis


kcullis@thecliq.org

The CLIQ Web Site:

http://thecliq.org

General Information and Questions:

info@thecliq.org

Linux Journal reviews and compares VMware Express 2.0 and Win4Lin 2.0, two products that offer users a way to access Windows applications for Linux.

From a press release at Businesswire: “ By re-engineering the desktop using Mozilla technology, OEone offers increased functionality supporting all of the standard Internet applications. OEone’s distinctive Operating Environment is comprised of the Linux Operating System, a Mozilla browser-based desktop, and a variety of components including productivity, entertainment, communications, and personal portal applications. This comprehensive Open-Source software platform can power a host of Internet devices…”