2002.11_Fireworks.pdf

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Fireworks

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Dear Linux Magazine Reader,

November is here and fireworks abound not just in organized displays but in

the world of Linux and computing.

The Fritz chip is causing one of the biggest bangs. Named after the US

senator Fritz Hollings of South Carolina. It is already on sale in the form of

Atmel’s secure processor, the AT90SP0801. This is the Palladium in action.

This is still one to watch as the dominant market players try to lock out all

free and open source technologies.

The Indian Times reports that the Indian Department of Information

Technology is in talks with IBM and HCL over setting Linux as the standard

within all of the sub-continent’s educational institutions. While this may just

be a ploy to gain a better Microsoft licencing deal for the Department of

Education, if true and they follow through Linux could become as dominant

as in China. Having the majority of Asia’s software and hardware engineers developing Linux

could only lead to more innovation and better products for the community as a whole.

Development in China is now so advanced that they can aim for other markets. RedFlag Linux

of China is now aiming at partnering multimedia providers to produce set top boxes and car

voice systems. Soon – Linux in an appliance near you.

On a lighter side Transgaming has not made much noise about its ongoing achievments. As

you may remember, Transgaming is developing a version of Wine and aims at getting all MS

Windows games running on Linux. By subscribing you get to vote each month on the next

improvements that the team will work on. Certainly this caters for their paying users. Now at

version 2.2 the number of games working is advancing at a rapid pace. It is quickly turning one

of my Linux boxes into a dedicated games console, which is very embarrasing when it is

supposed to be for serious development.

Knoppix 3.1 is certainly a bright light. A single CD Debian based distribution is available

either by download if you have the bandwidth or from one of the usual vendors. Put the CD in

the machine and reboot. Running from the CD it detects all of your hardware and leaves you

running a KDE desktop so quickly and without any intervention that you will wonder why all

Operating Systems cannot do this.

Once you get over the shock of the easy setup you can start to explore all the software

supplied on the single disk. My favourite use is as a

check for hardware. Throw in the disk and if it works

you know it is your own configuration files that are

wrong. If it does not work then the chances are it is the

hardware and not the setup. It is

great for copying configuration

files for your own systems.

Linux New Media

Awards 2002

An international jury has recently

chosen the winners of the

Linux New Media Awards 2002.

The winners are:

Mobile Devices – Sharp Zaurus

Network Hardware – Axiom AX 6113

Hardware – Pioneer DVR-104

Distributions – Debian

Development Software – GCC

Office Packages – Open Office

Internet Applications – Mozilla

Databases – PostgreSQL

Newcomer of the Year Linux – Gentoo

Linux Companies – IBM

For the full story, see page 88.

Happy Hacking,

John Southern

Editor

www.linux-magazine.com November 2002

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