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Jul 7, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/7/00

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Distributions

Please note that security updates from the various distributions are
covered in the [16]security section.

News and Editorials

Linux Hebrew Support. Liz Coolbaugh was asked in December of 1999, at
the Earthweb conference in New York, if she knew of any Linux
distributions with Hebrew support. So far, she still has not found any
fully-developed Hebrew Linux distributions. However, the following
projects are working on Hebrew support for Linux. Clearly, if you are
interested, they would probably appreciate assistance.
* [17]Ivrix (pronounced eevreex)
* [18]The LinuX project
* [19]The Israeli Linux Users Group (very slow link)

Note that the link to Ivrix was found on [20]KernelNotes.

Searchable Linux distributions database. [21]Ratatosk is a new,
searchable database containing information on Linux distributions.
Martin Skjoldebrand finally got tired of waiting for us to get up a
database of our own, to track information on all the distributions we
monitor, so he created Ratatosk. He also allows distribution
maintainers to create and maintain their own entries in the database.

Project Vine partners with Red Hat Japan. [22]Project Vine announced,
on July 4th, [23]a partnership with Red Hat Japan (in Japanese). Red
Hat Japan will be taking charge of sales and support of Vine Linux.
Correspondent Maya Tamiya commented that the cooperation would
include:
* Project Vine will consign sales of Vine Linux 2.1 and its later
version to Red Hat Japan.
* Red Hat Japan will do sales and advertisement of Vine Linux CR.
* Red Hat Japan will support Vine Linux.
* Project Vine will cooperate in development of Japanese version of
Red Hat Linux ("Japanese version of Red Hat Linux powered by Vine
Linux").

Embedded Linux

Hard Hat Linux pSOS transition kit. Montavista announced today the
availability of a [24]pSOS-to-Linux transition kit, to aid in the
movement of legacy code from the pSOS proprietary embedded operating
system to Linux. A similar kit is planned for VxWorks. Like all the
tools from Montavista so far, the [25]pSOS transition kit has been
released as an open source project and is expected to continue to
improve with feedback and participation of the pSOS community.

Due to the acquisition of Integrated Systems Inc., provider of the
pSOS embedded operating system, by Wind River Systems, the pSOS
community is currently faced with the need to transition to VxWorks.
Last week's announcement from Lineo (see the [26]Distributions
Summary) and this week's announcement from Montavista are a clear call
to that community to consider a transition to Linux instead.

Lineo, LynuxWorks face off in embedded market (Upside). Upside took a
look at the press releases over the past couple of days and noticed
[27]a bit of competition between Lineo's Embedix distribution and
LynuxWorks Blue Cat Linux.

Tynux Linux. [28]Tynux Linux is a new, embedded distribution designed
to support Internet-Ready Portable Devices, such as PDAs, smart mobile
phones, and set-top boxes. [29]More information on the application of
Tynux to cellular telephones and the availability of boxes running
Tynux is available. Note, however, that we have not yet found a link
on the site to allow the distribution to be downloaded by itself.
(Thanks to [30]Martin Skjoldebrand).

e-smith server and gateway 4.0b10. The e-smith Linux distribution has
been [31]upgraded to Red Hat 6.1, according to their latest
announcement. e-smith is a small distribution targeted at server and
gateway appliances.

Caldera OpenLinux

Here are the [32]latest FAQs from Caldera.

Conectiva

Conectiva support for high availability projects. Conectiva has put
out [33]a press release with details on their involvement in free
software projects for the development of high availability solutions
for Linux. "The proposed solution by Conectiva for High Availability,
in two steps, is composed of four basic modules: Node Administration,
Disk Replication, Service Monitoring and Robust File System. Conectiva
participates actively in the development of two of these projects,
Node Monitoring and Disk Replication. "

Debian GNU/Linux

Anthony Towns posted a [34]Test Cycle 3 update and things are looking
good. "By the looks of things we've just about got potato tidied up,
now. There're only 16 outstanding release critical bugs against potato
[0] most of which will have to be ignored (no fix is known, no
workaround is known, and the package can't be removed), or are already
largely fixed and will be uploaded soon.

There is still a short list of items that need to be completed before
Test Cycle 3 officially begins, but now it looks like they have a
distribution ready for release; they just need to ensure no major
problems have been missed.

Debian GNU/Hurd

[35]This week's Kernel Cousin Debian Hurd contains an interesting
discussion about how Unix or Linux-like the Hurd really needs to be.
While a commitment to POSIX-compatibility has been made, no commitment
to duplicating Unix or Linux has, leaving open the possibility of
experimenting with new ideas or ideas from other operating systems.
"No-one would like [to] use Debian GNU/Hurd if it were just [a] Debian
GNU/Linux emulator over [a] Mach microkernel."

Linux-Mandrake

Macmillan USA is [36]packaging up Linux-Mandrake 7.1 in their
"Complete Linux" product, which also includes the recently released
Star Office 5.2.

Red Escolar Linux

[37]Red Escolar Linux 1.0-14 has been announced. A transparent squid
configuration has been added, along with other minor bugfixes. Red
Escolar Linux is a distribution containing only free software, with
applications, services and configurations for the Red Escolar school
servers and workstations being implemented in Mexico.

Slackware Linux

No big news from the Slackware folks this week, not too unusual, given
the release of Slackware 7.1 last week. They moved their primary ftp
server to the east coast, but everything appears to be back up and
available now.

Storm Linux

Weathering Stormix (GNULinux). The GNULinux staff took a look at
[38]Storm Linux from Stormix. "After fielding a few questions from our
visitors about Storm Linux we decided to take a closer look. This is
not so much a review of the distribution as it is a review of our
experience. We encountered a few bumps along the way and in the end
decided to scrap the install. But, we still think Storm Linux is worth
checking out."

Trustix

[39]Trustix Secure Linux 1.1 has been announced. This is a maintenance
update that includes some security fixes and the Linux 2.2.16 kernel.

New Distributions

GNU Circle MudLinux. [40]Circle Mud Linux is a mini-distribution
(three disks) specifically built to support the Circle MUD server. It
is based on libc5.

Section Editor: [41]Liz Coolbaugh
July 6, 2000

Please note that not every distribution will show up every week. Only
distributions with recent news to report will be listed.

Known Distributions:
[42]Alphanet
[43]Alzza Linux
[44]Apokalypse
[45]Armed Linux
[46]Bad Penguin Linux
[47]Bastille Linux
[48]Best Linux
[49]Bifrost
[50]Black Cat Linux
[51]Black Lab Linux
[52]Blue Cat Linux
[53]BluePoint Linux
[54]Boston University
[55]BYLD
[56]CAEN Linux
[57]Cafe Linux
[58]Caldera OpenLinux
[59]Chinese Linux Extension
[60]Circle MUDLinux
[61]Complete Linux
[62]Conectiva Linux
[63]Coollinux
[64]Corel Linux
[65]Coyote Linux
[66]Debian GNU/Linux
[67]deepLinux
[68]Definite Linux
[69]DemoLinux
[70]DLite
[71]DLX
[72]DragonLinux
[73]easyLinux
[74]Elfstone Linux
[75]Empire Linux
[76]Eridani
[77]e-smith
[78]ESware Linux
[79]ET-Linux
[80]Eurielec Linux
[81]eXecutive Linux
[82]floppyfw
[83]Floppix
[84]Gentoo
[85]Gentus
[86]Green Frog Linux
[87]HA Linux
[88]hal91
[89]Halloween Linux
[90]Hard Hat Linux
[91]HispaFuentes
[92]Immunix
[93]Independence
[94]innominate Bootable Business Card
[95]Ivrix
[96]ix86 Linux
[97]Jailbait
[98]Jurix
[99]Kaiwal Linux
[100]Kha0s Linux
[101]Kondara MNU/Linux
[102]KRUD
[103]KSI-Linux
[104]Laetos
[105]LASER5
[106]LEM
[107]LibraNet
[108]Linpus Linux
[109]Linuxcare Bootable Business Card
[110]Linux Cyrillic Edition
[111]Linux MLD
[112]LinuxFromScratch
[113]LinuxOne OS
[114]LinuxPPC
[115]LinuxPPP
[116]Linux Pro Plus
[117]Linux Router Project
[118]Linux-SIS
[119]LNX System
[120]LOAF
[121]LoopLinux
[122]LSD
[123]Lunar Penguin
[124]Lute Linux
[125]Mandrake
[126]Mastodon
[127]MaxOS
[128]MicroLinux
[129]MkLinux
[130]muLinux
[131]nmrcOS
[132]NoMad Linux
[133]Nuclinux
[134]One Disk Linux
[135]OpenClassroom
[136]OS2000
[137]Peanut Linux
[138]PeeWee Linux
[139]Phat Linux
[140]PingOO Linux
[141]PKlinux(mini)
[142]Plamo Linux
[143]PLD
[144]Pocket Frog
[145]Project Ballantain
[146]PROSA
[147]QuadLinux
[148]Red Escolar
[149]Red Linux
[150]Red Flag
[151]Red Hat
[152]Rock Linux
[153]Royal Linux
[154]RunOnCD
[155]ShareTheNet
[156]Skygate
[157]Slackware
[158]Small Linux
[159]Spiro
[160]spyLinux
[161]Stampede
[162]Stataboware
[163]Storm Linux
[164]SuSE
[165]Think Blue Linux
[166]TimeSys Linux/RT
[167]TINY
[168]Tom Linux
[169]Tomsrtbt
[170]Trinux
[171]Trustix
[172]TurboLinux
[173]Tynux
[174]uClinux
[175]VA-enhanced Red Hat
[176]VectorLinux
[177]Vine Linux
[178]White Dwarf Linux
[179]WholeLinux
[180]WinLinux 2000
[181]Xdenu
[182]XTeamLinux
[183]Yellow Dog Linux
[184]ZipSlack
[185]ZipSpeak

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