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Interesting Neil i have a 3 user demo of Netware 5, but not groupwise. I will have to dig it out as i have just moved? Darren Ward ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [LinuxUser] bulletin no. 94 Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 17:53:30 +0100 From: Daniel James <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: linuxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Abiword 1.0.0 released The Abiword word processor for GNOME has reached version 1.0.0, although not all download sites have caught up yet. Lean and efficient, with capable Microsoft Office import filters, the program is also available for Windows - so it might appeal to Office users who are looking for something less bloated and without the price gouge. http://sourceforge.net/projects/abiword/ _______________________________________________ The fastest Linux supercomputer yet? The US Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has ordered a supercomputer from HP that should be the world's most powerful Linux-based supercomputer and one of the top computers of any kind. With 1,400 Itanium processors, the system is expected to peak at more than 8.3 teraflops. There's also a job going for a Linux kernel expert to run it. http://www.pnl.gov/news/2002/computer.htm http://jobs.pnl.gov/asp/ReqDescr/ReqDescr.asp?v_ReqNbr=103909&company=PNL _______________________________________________ Mozilla 1.0 release candidate now available Release Candidate 1 of the Mozilla browser suite project, the basis of Netscape 6, can now be downloaded for final bug testing. New features include scaled bitmap font support under Linux and 'one button publishing' in Composer which allows direct saving to a web server, where the user has FTP login details. http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.0/ _______________________________________________ Sage Line 500 for Linux to be offered by IBM? Sage has said it will be offering Linux in partnership with IBM for Line 500, which is aimed at medium-sized businesses for finance, distribution, manufacturing and service tasks. This sounds like it could be a port of Sage, a missing link in many prospective Linux migrations for UK firms, plus perhaps a Linux distribution and hardware bundle. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=569&569&e=7&u=/nm/20020423/tc _nm/tech_ibm_linux_dc_1 _______________________________________________ Alan Cox to speak in London Linux kernel hacker Alan Cox will speak next Monday evening, 29 April at City University, London EC1 on the proposed European Copyright Directive and its likely impacts on open source development, the software industry and disabled access. Organised by the Campaign for Digital Rights, the event is free but registration is required. http://www.lonix.org.uk/tnet-cgi/Lonix?CODE=userMeetings _______________________________________________ OMNI driver integrated with Linux printer database IBM's OMNI printer driver, which supports around 400 printers and is said to be very expandable, has now been integrated with the Foomatic database. Although OMNI does not currently match the high output quality of GIMP-Print on inkjets, this development means that many more printers are now explicitly supported under Linux, especially dot-matrix models. http://www.linuxprinting.org/ _______________________________________________ HP launches range of Linux books HP has announced a series of books authored by staff from HP Labs and HP's Linux division with the aim of furthering Linux education, research, adoption and development. The books, to be published by Prentice Hall, will include "IA-64 Linux Kernel: Design and Implementation" by David Mosberger with Stephane Eranian, and a book on Open Source by Bruce Perens. http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?bw.042402/221140499&ticker =HWP _______________________________________________ Trustix partner with Linux IT Linux distributor Trustix and services company LinuxIT have announced a partnership to provide support to UK customers. Trustix produce firewall, web, e-mail, and file/print server clusters with systems management software on IBM xSeries server hardware. Under the deal, LinuxIT will be providing Trustix services, training and certification in the UK small to medium sized enterprise market. http://lwn.net/2002/0425/pr/pr6171.php3 _______________________________________________ German police roll out 11,000 Linux machines Following a consultants report comparing Linux with Windows 2000 and XP which pointed to savings of around 20 million euros over ten years, the police force in Lower Saxony, Germany will be installing 11,000 Linux machines. Linux clients will access a high availability Linux cluster, running bespoke software written in Java as well as StarOffice 6 and Netscape. This news story is in German. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-17.04.02-000/ _______________________________________________ Aesop meets Tux This essay points out that while some pundits were writing off Linux as a desktop system last year, it took ten years for Windows to become established as the dominant computer interface with the release of Windows 95. Since KDE and Gnome emerged around 1998, it's interesting to observe that after the same period of development Microsoft had only released Windows 2.0. How many people are running that on their desktop today? http://www.cyber.com.au/users/conz/the_penguin_and_the_hare.html _______________________________________________ Please send your news snippets to daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ LinuxUser mailing list LinuxUser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/linuxuser ------------------------------------------------------- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.