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Source: Infoworld

"XIMIAN, ONE OF the brighter lights among open-source developers, on Monday rolled out a personal and workgroup information management tool that works across both Linux- and Unix- based platforms as well as with Microsoft and Lotus mail environments.

Version 1.0 of Evolution is designed to weave together e-mail, calendar, and contact management functions in concert with a handful of collaboration and information management functions, company officials said."

The previous article in this series covered synchronization primitives and gave a reprise on pipes. This article takes a first look at communication using sockets. The author demonstrates some techniques for writing a sockets program and shows how his programming techniques perform in various operating system environments.

Every UNIX administrator is familiar with inetd, the daemon that manages most incoming network connections through a centralized configuration file (inetd.conf). The xinetd daemon is a replacement for inetd that offers many improved or new features, and easier configuration. This article explains the concepts behind inetd, and gives examples for setting up xinetd at your own site.

A few months ago, IBM set off a Linux campaign where sidewalks were spray painted in San Francisco. And the city didn't like it. So now, IBM will be paying $100,000, and in addition, cleaning fees that may run up to as much as $20,000.

Read the full story here.

Source: SearchWindowsManageability

When we last reported on the state of Linux, 17 months ago, there were several reasons the open-source operating system had yet to take its place as a core enterprise solution. Although it had made its way out of the underground, a lack of vendor support, scarce in-house skills, fainthearted management and weak administrative toolsets prevented Linux from taking that all-important leap from simple Web server to enterprise-application server, or even onto the desktop itself.

Source: ZDNet

The K Desktop Environment Project has released a new version of KDE. The software is a desktop environment running on top of Linux, the open-source operating system favoured by software developers and many Web sites.

Source: Network Computing

Yup! Version 2.4.15 of the Linux kernel has been released which also marks the beta release of 2.5.0. This release includes two major features: ext3 and inter-mezzo. Ext3 is the second journaled filesystem included in the kernel. And Inter-mezzo is a Network filesystem that will make a lot of laptop-users a lot more happy. The complete changelog is in the read more. As always, please use a mirror when downloading the kernel. The best place to find one of these would certainly be http://www.kernel.org.

The Duke of URL has posted their review of Mandrake Linux PowerPack 8.1.

Over the last few years, MandrakeSoft has climbed its way to the top of the pack with its user-friendly approach on Linux. The review covers the installation, configuration, security, and much more.

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