MandrakeSoft has appointed Henri Poole as its new CEO, who brings extensive experience in providing highly-technical solutions to fast-growing clients. The company is rapidly expanding its service offering and plans to stay fully committed to the core values of the open source community that has supported its success. MandrakeSoft has …
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Metro Link Inc., a software development company specializing in graphics display technology solutions for Linux, UNIX, embedded Linux and embedded systems, is hiring X Window System programmers to accommodate new business opportunities in the Linux and embedded systems markets. The company's reputation as 'The X Experts' makes it attractive to …
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Microsoft has announced the release of the .NET 5.0 SDK and the .NET 5.0 Runtime. The new version includes a number of new features and improvements over previous versions, including support for Windows Server Core, improved performance, and better cross-platform compatibility. Microsoft also announced the release of the …
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Linux NetworX has opened a new office in Houston to meet the increasing demand for high-performance cluster computing from the oil and gas industry. The company's clustered systems are ideal for processing massive amounts of seismic data at approximately one-tenth the cost of traditional supercomputers. Linux NetworX is committed to …
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Stormix Technologies Inc., a Linux solutions provider for small and medium sized businesses, has announced the launch of Storm Linux 2000 Starter Edition. This new product is aimed at Windows users who want to try Linux with a full-featured, easy-to-install distribution at a low cost. The Storm Linux 2000 Starter …
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Bynari International has released version 1.0 of TradeServer, a Linux host for Microsoft Outlook(tm) that is built upon a foundation of Open Source software and enhanced by Bynari's exclusive Administration Interface. The solution provides messaging, collaboration, and personal activity management features, and supports IMAP, POP3, SMTP, LDAP, and …
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Linuxcare and Compaq have teamed up to simplify Linux installation on Alpha servers with the introduction of Linux Jumpstart! CD. The new CD quickly configures the server to boot Linux on most Alpha-based systems, allowing administrators to select their level of involvement in the setup process. It also doubles as …
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Loki Software, Inc., a leader in bringing best-selling PC games to Linux, has announced an exclusive agreement with Epic Games, Inc. to maintain and support the Linux version of Unreal Tournament. Under the terms of the agreement, Loki will provide full technical support for UT Linux, offering new features, addressing …
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Ericsson and Red Hat have announced a strategic initiative to jointly develop a range of consumer products and services for home communications. The first product from this partnership is the Ericsson Cordless Screen Phone, which will be commercially available at the end of this year. The companies are also working …
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SuSE Linux has announced the release of SuSE Linux version 7.0 Professional and Personal. Version 7.0 Professional offers experienced users all the proven Linux features for use as a server operating system and version 7.0 Personal is tailored for new Linux users and desktop users. SuSE Linux …
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The Open Group has released a new edition of its guide to the Single UNIX Specification, which covers the current state of the art of the UNIX system and includes new sections on networking, the X Window System, UNIX system clustering, Linux operating system, and open source. The book features …
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Libra Computer Systems has released version 1.8 of the 'LIBRANET' distribution, which is built from the world-acclaimed Linux release by Debian. The new version includes updates to Debian potato packages and adds some packages from Debian woody.
GNOME 1.2 from Helixcode has been added, and the XFce desktop …
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According to 3DGeo, a seismic imaging company, the high performance computing market is experiencing a paradigm shift from traditional supercomputers and large parallel servers to Linux cluster systems. The company has purchased a 32-processor cluster system from Linux NetworX to use in its high computation data processing application. The Linux …
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Pierre Bruno has joined Matra Datavision as Director of Specific Developments and Open CASCADE. He aims to oversee the growing worldwide utilization of Open CASCADE and to further develop the program of services associated to these Open Source 3D modeling components. The new economic model created around Open CASCADE was …
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Donovan Systems and Red Hat have announced a regional partnership that puts Red Hat Linux on Donovan's powerful 64-bit platform and provides for increased Red Hat Linux support, training and certification in Asia. Donovan will bundle Red Hat Linux software, documents and media with all its servers and provide 24 …
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TVminder is a free service that sends email reminders when actors or movies subscribers want to see appear on television. It was built entirely with open-source tools, including Linux, Apache, Java, MySQL, and Python. This approach makes remote administration easy and allows for easy scalability. The company behind TVminder, MovieBone …
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XStream Logic, a developer of next-generation network processors, has announced a development partnership with MontaVista Software, a supplier of Hard Hat Linux for embedded applications. Under the agreement, both companies will jointly develop high-performance Linux-based solutions targeting networking and storage applications. The partnership is expected to provide customers with a …
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Macmillan's Linux-Mandrake Complete 7.0 leads the business category in units sold at retail year-to-date, with Macmillan USA and MandrakeSoft owning five of the top 20 selling Linux skus. In June, Macmillan released their newest editions to the award winning Linux-Mandrake repertoire, and will be featuring their Linux-Mandrake 7.1 …
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Caldera Systems Inc., a leader in Linux for eBusiness solutions, has announced the availability of the Linux 2.4 Technology Developer Release Preview. The preview includes a beta version of the new Linux 2.4 kernel, Sun Microsystems' Java HotSpot(TM) technology and glibc 2.1.91. With this release …
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20,000 citizens and 50 companies have signed so far the EuroLinux Petition for a Software Patent Free Europe after one month. The current 20,000 individual signatures mainly consist of individual IT professionals, including 300 corporate executives (CEO, CTO, CFO, etc. ), about 50 companies and more than 20 non-profit …
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