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AMD Appoints Marty Seyer [former Penguin Computing CEO] to Vice President of Server Business

AMD has hired the former CEO of Penguin Computing, Marty Seyer. He "will be responsible for AMD's server business, including marketing, strategy, business planning, product planning and associated operations."

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Egenera upgrades top-end Linux servers (News.com)

News.com reports on Egenera's upgraded blade servers, which use the new 2.6 and 2.8 Ghz Intel Xeon processors.

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Intel dreams of the networked home (ZDNet)

According to ZDNet, Intel is working on a Linux-based "digital media adapter" as part of its wireless PC initiative. The device will allow audio and video components to be networked with computers. "The first generation of the Intel gadget will let people view and play PC-stored image and audio files on a television or stereo receiver, said Vogel. A subsequent generation will also permit the transfer of video. By offering video and photo capabilities, the Intel adapter serves up more bang for the buck than current devices, which mainly store and play music."

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Earthlink to provide net access to LindowsOS users

Lindows.com and Earthlink have formed a partnership to place an Earthlink icon on default LindowsOS desktops, providing internet access to users of the Linux distribution.

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LinOra Corporation Switches From Microsoft Windows to Linux Desktops Using Ximian Evolution

Here is a "Linux at Work" press release from Ximian, announcing that a company called LinOra has switched all their Windows computers over to Linux. "While most of the pieces we needed to make the switch were available, we were missing a high-quality email and personal information management application to replace Microsoft Outlook. With its familiar interface and robust feature set, Evolution became the foundation product that enabled our entire company's changeover to Linux."

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Macrovision and Broadcom do DRM on Linux

Here's a press release from Macrovision and Broadcom on how they are producing a digital rights management platform - on a Linux-based set-top box. "The Broadcom DRM Tool Kit consists of a suite of silicon solutions and software drivers that provide end-to-end security and rights management of digital content in home networking and entertainment applications. Included in the suite of services are decryption and encryption engines, authentication services, tamper detection services, and digital recording management services." While much of this work can probably remain proprietary legally, they will have to release their kernel changes; it will be interesting to see how forthcoming they are with that code.

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Oracle on Linux edges SQL Server in benchmark (Register)

The Register reports on the results of a recent Oracle benchmark, where Linux was 14 percent faster than Microsoft SQL Server. "The results come from running Oracle9i Database Release 2 with Real Application Clusters on Linux against Microsoft SQL Server 2000 on a 32-processor cluster configuration, with identical processors and the same amount of memory per CPU."

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Red Hat, IBM expand Linux deal (CNET)

Red Hat will be bringing its Advanced Server to all four of IBM's server lines, and IBM's Global Services division will provide support for Red Hat's software. "The two companies will jointly market each others' products and tune them to work well together."

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Red Hat announces quarterly results

Red Hat has put out a press release on its second quarter results. The "pro-forma" results are a $471,000 loss; with GAAP accounting the number grows to $1.7 million. Underneath all that, however, was a positive cash flow of $2 million; the company now has $288 million in the bank.

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SGI Shatters World Performance Record (Press Release)

In a press release last week, SGI trumpeted that it has "attained linear scalability on a 64-processor Itanium 2-based system and world-record results among microprocessor-based systems on the STREAM Triad benchmark, which tests memory bandwidth performance."

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Sun Microsystems Introduces New Open Desktop Client

Sun has announced its new Linux distribution, targetted at desktops. "The new solution brings together off-the-shelf hardware, open-source software and Sun's own industry-leading intellectual property. These include low-cost desktop systems hardware and several open source software efforts, namely Linux, Mozilla, OpenOffice, Evolution and GNOME. This gives desktop users a familiar desktop environment and the ability to interoperate with Microsoft Office documents, presentations and spreadsheet formats. In addition, with Evolution, the user is provided with a Microsoft Outlook-like client which interoperates with Microsoft Exchange while Sun also provides the fully supported StarOffice, the world's most popular open office productivity suite."

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Sun Microsystems Laboratories gives elliptic curve cryptography to OpenSSL

A press release from Sun Microsystems announces their recent contributions to the OpenSSL project. "Sun has contributed an Elliptic Curve cryptography code implementation to the OpenSSL (Secure Socket Layer) project. Elliptic Curve cryptography is an emerging public-key cryptosystem which provides the same degree of security as those used in SSL today with approximately one-eighth the key size. This makes the technology especially useful for mobile devices and other small devices that are limited in the power, CPU performance, memory, or bandwidth."

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LOCKSS Digital Archiving System

Sun Microsystems has issued a press release, announcing the LOCKSS ("Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe") Program. "The LOCKSS program is a joint undertaking of Sun Microsystems Laboratories and Stanford University Libraries to develop a secure, reliable system which safeguards and preserves access to digital publications. The LOCKSS system is designed to make it feasible and affordable, even for smaller libraries, to preserve access to the e-journals to which they subscribe, and safeguard their community's access to them." Fourty nine libraries will be using the system, it will be run on Linux systems.

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SuSE Linux 8.1 Available on October 7

Here's a press release from SuSE stating that version 8.1 of the SuSE Linux distribution will be available on October 7. It appears that the PR is talking about U.S. availability; it may be released a little sooner in Europe. There is a lot of new stuff in this release; click the link below for the details.

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