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communications and more the intensive

multimedia, graphics, and audio capabil-

ities that are ushering in a new era of

business productivity enabled by a new

generation of sophisticated multiproces-

sors and business application tools.”

The Yoper team, which is far more

inclined to superlatives than most open

source development collectives, calls

Yoper “the fastest out-of-the-box Linux

system in the world,” and the Yoper

website provides comparison charts that,

according to Yoper, support the claim.

Yoper uses Linux kernel 2.6.7 and

provides performance patches and

“innovative prelinking”. Yoper also

comes with support for both VMware

and Win4Lin virtual machines, as well

as a CDROM Supermount feature and

NdisWrapper.

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http://www.yoper.com/

A Free Linux Firewall

Redwall has released version 0.5.4 of the

Redwall Open Source firewall. Redwall is

a free, CD-based Linux firewall system

supporting a range of features for VPNs,

intrusion detection, traffic analysis, log-

ging, web caching, mail relay, spam

filtering, and virus scanning.

Configuration information for a Red-

wall system is stored on a floppy,

memory stick, or hard drive, or it is sent

by email. You can use a Redwall system

as a central management console for log-

ging data from other firewall systems on

your network.

Red Hat Serving Java

Red Hat announced the availability of

Red Hat Application Server. Red Hat’s

entry into the Java application server

market brings it directly into competition

with vendors such as SUN and IBM that

have centered their business plans

around application services for years.

This announcement is yet more evidence

of the strong bonds that have been devel-

oping recently between Java and Open

Source. (See also Business News.)

Red Hat’s goal is to produce an open

source application server that is fully

compatible with the plaforms of existing

J2EE vendors so that customers can

“…leverage open source where possible

while protecting legacy investments.”

They will test Red Hat Application Server

to ensure compatibility with BEA, Ora-

cle, and IBM J2EE application platforms.

Red Hat says its application server is

tested and supported on all major com-

mercial JVMs, and it will also be certified

with the leading DBMS platforms,

including Oracle, IBM DB2, and Sybase.

The system has many components –

some common to the Open Source com-

munity and some unique to Red Hat.

The Enterprise Application Server com-

ponent is based on the Open Source

JOnAS system. The Web application

server is Tomcat, and the Web services

infrastructure uses Apache’s AXIS imple-

mentation of the SOAP protocol.

Luscious and Glossy

Linaire Corporation is releasing Linaire

Linux Professional Edition. Linaire Linux

is a desktop Linux operating system tar-

geted at corporate and office users.

Linaire uses Linux kernel 2.6 and KDE

3.2.2.

Linaire is one of those Linux systems

that is tooled for reaching out to the

mainstream Windows user. The product

is positioned as a tool that “…makes it

easy for companies to migrate from the

Windows operating system.” Part of the

appeal is pure marketing. (The website

says Linaire has a “luscious, glossy

look.” Can you imagine hearing that

from Slackware?)

However, they have apparently tai-

lored the system to provide some subtle

but helpful benefits for corporate users.

For instance, you can convert .doc files

to .pdf format automatically.

The Linaire Linux 2.9 Professional

Edition retails for US$ 40 (EUR 33).

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http://www.linare.com

Release 0.5.4 is primarily a bug

fix release. Perhaps the most impor-

tant fix is actually one to the MySQL

system included with Redwall. Most

of Redwall’s logging features depend

on MySQL, so if you’re using Redwall

now, the upgrade is highly recom-

mended.

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http://www.redwall-firewall.com/

tiki-index.php

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http://www.redhat.com

October 2004

www.linux-magazine.com

Yoper Races for Acceptance

The Yoper team announces the release of

Yoper Version 2.0. Yoper is a Linux distro

tuned for fast performance.

The Yoper team describes Yoper as

follows: “Yoper is a multipurpose, high-

performance operating system that has

been carefully optimized for PCs with

either 686 or higher processor types. The

binares that come with Yoper have been

built from scratch using the original

sources combined with the best features

of major distros, measuring up to the

demanding proliferation of network

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Managing in Open Country

The new company Open Country Inc,

has released OC-Manager, a system man-

agement tool designed to lower the total

cost of ownership for organizations that

manage groups of Linux computers.

OC-Manager is a browser-based man-

agement system that supports “remote

Linux configuration and troubleshoot-

ing, remote administration and desktop

takeover, asset management, and back-

up configuration.”

Designed for both outsourced IT and

in-house IT departments, the product is

distribution neutral and so supports Red

Hat, Suse, Mandrake and other Linux

environments, allowing staff to deploy

software patches with precision.

Open Country says OC-Manager works

for networks with anything from 5 to

5000 Linux nodes.

Insert Offers Inside Security

Inside Security announces Version 1.2.14

of the Insert Rescue Toolkit. This one-

year anniversary release of the Insert

toolkit contains several upgrades and

bug fixes. Insert is a bootable Linux

rescue system on a credit-card-sized CD-

ROM. The Insert system is based on

Linux kernel 2.4.26 and Knoppix 3.4.

Included with the release are several

useful tools for network diagnosis and

recovery. Tools include the network

analysis utilities nmap and tcpdump,

computer forensics tools such as chk-

rootkit, and disaster recovery utilities

such as gpart, partimage, and testdisk.

Insert also provides support for Linux

software RAID and LVM, as well as full

read and write support for NTFS parti-

tions. See this month’s Linux Magazine

for the latest version.

A New Xandros

Xandros announced the release of Xan-

dros Desktop OS Version 2.5. Xandros

Desktop OS is a Linux desktop system

based on Debian. Previous versions of

Xandros have introduced a range of use-

ful interoperability features, such as

Active Directory client support and

cross-platform file sharing with Xandros

File Manager (XFL).

Ve rsion 2.5 offers an upgraded version

of CrossOver Office (version 3.0.1) with

support for Lotus Notes 6.5.1, Microsoft

Project 2000/2002, and Microsoft Out-

look XP. Xandros 2.5 comes with Linux

kernel version 2.4.24 and version 1.6 of

the Mozilla suite.

The Xandros Desktop OS is available

in Standard, Deluxe, and Business edi-

tions. Xandros provides special upgrade

pricing for customers who are currently

using Xandros Desktop OS 2.0.

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http://www.opencountry.com/company/

index.html

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http://www.inside-security.de/insert_en.

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http://www.xandros.com/

VERITAS Finds Truth in Linux

VERITAS announced an upgrade to its

Red Hat Linux-certified Storage Founda-

tion suite. Version 4.0 of the Storage

Foundation family, which includes Stor-

age Foundation for Oracle RAC, Storage

Foundation Cluster File System, VERI-

TAS Cluster Server and Global Cluster

Option, and VERITAS Volume Replicator.

Storage Foundation includes a new fea-

ture called the Portable Data Container

that lets users quickly migrate data to

and from Linux.

The tools in the Storage Foundation

family serve specialized roles in the

Linux enterprise. The Cluster File System

allows concurrent data sharing among

Linux clusters. Cluster Server and Global

Cluster Option provide wide-area

failover and reduce unplanned down-

time for Linux clusters. Storage

Foundation for Oracle RAC provides a

cluster file system and volume manager

for interfacing with enterprise Oracle

systems.

VERITAS argues that the industrial-

strength tools of the Storage Foundation

family reduce the risk of data loss,

increase system efficiency, and enhance

flexibility for heterogeneous environ-

ments.

Little Linuxes

As the Linux titans battle over which

system is the biggest and most robust, a

new generation of lean distributions is

engaged in the task of making Linux lit-

tle. Last month, you learned about

DamnSmall Linux. This month brings

yet another crop of the small ones.

Puppy Linux Version 9.2.2 runs in a

48-60 MB ramdisk. The Puppy system

usually boots from a flash card, USB

memory device, Zip disk, network drive,

internal hard drive, or a set of floppies.

Since the whole system runs in RAM

once it is loaded, there is almost nothing

to slow it down. Puppy comes with

Linux kernel 2.4.22, XPaint, wavplay and

Madplay for playing audio files, and four

web browsers including

Mozilla.

Feather Linux is another

little Linux that boots from a

USB pendrive or CD and

takes up less than 64 MB.

Feather is a stripped down

version of Knoppix 3.4. The

system includes Linux kernel

2.4.26, as well as features

such as savplay, Dillo,

Samba, iptables, Fluxbox,

SSH, SCP, and DHCP client

support.

Yet another of the diminutives is Aus-

trumi, a 50 MB business card CD based

on Slackware. Austumi provides a set of

light-weight office applications, gimp

and gqview for graphic image process-

ing, network tools such as nmap,

LinNeighborhood, telnet, ssh, and sftp,

the Opera web browser, mplayer,

RipperX audio, and an assortment of

games. Another interesting addition to

Austrumi is the MinGW developer

studio, a cross-platform IDE for C and

C++ developers.

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http://www.goosee.com/puppy/

http://featherlinux.berlios.de/

http://cyti.latgola.lv/ruuni/index_en.

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http://www.veritas.com

www.linux-magazine.com

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