Software News ■Yoper Races for Acceptance the Yoper Team Announces the Release of Communications and More the Intensive Yoper Version 2.0

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Software News ■Yoper Races for Acceptance The Yoper team announces the release of communications and more the intensive Yoper Version 2.0. Yoper is a Linux distro multimedia, graphics, and audio capabil- tuned for fast performance. ities that are ushering in a new era of The Yoper team describes Yoper as business productivity enabled by a new follows: “Yoper is a multipurpose, high- generation of sophisticated multiproces- performance operating system that has sors and business application tools.” Yoper uses Linux kernel 2.6.7 and been carefully optimized for PCs with The Yoper team, which is far more provides performance patches and either 686 or higher processor types. The inclined to superlatives than most open “innovative prelinking”. Yoper also binares that come with Yoper have been source development collectives, calls comes with support for both VMware built from scratch using the original Yoper “the fastest out-of-the-box Linux and Win4Lin virtual machines, as well sources combined with the best features system in the world,” and the Yoper as a CDROM Supermount feature and of major distros, measuring up to the website provides comparison charts that, NdisWrapper. ■ demanding proliferation of network according to Yoper, support the claim. http://www.yoper.com/

■A Free Linux Firewall ■Red Hat Serving Java ■Luscious and Glossy Redwall has released version 0.5.4 of the Red Hat announced the availability of Linaire Corporation is releasing Linaire Redwall Open Source firewall. Redwall is Red Hat Application Server. Red Hat’s Linux Professional Edition. Linaire Linux a free, CD-based Linux firewall system entry into the Java application server is a desktop Linux operating system tar- supporting a range of features for VPNs, market brings it directly into competition geted at corporate and office users. intrusion detection, traffic analysis, log- with vendors such as SUN and IBM that Linaire uses Linux kernel 2.6 and KDE ging, web caching, mail relay, spam have centered their business plans 3.2.2. filtering, and virus scanning. around application services for years. Linaire is one of those Linux systems Configuration information for a Red- This announcement is yet more evidence that is tooled for reaching out to the wall system is stored on a floppy, of the strong bonds that have been devel- mainstream Windows user. The product memory stick, or hard drive, or it is sent oping recently between Java and Open is positioned as a tool that “…makes it by email. You can use a Redwall system Source. (See also Business News.) easy for companies to migrate from the as a central management console for log- Red Hat’s goal is to produce an open Windows operating system.” Part of the ging data from other firewall systems on source application server that is fully appeal is pure marketing. (The website your network. compatible with the plaforms of existing says Linaire has a “luscious, glossy J2EE vendors so that customers can look.” Can you imagine hearing that “…leverage open source where possible from Slackware?) while protecting legacy investments.” However, they have apparently tai- They will test Red Hat Application Server lored the system to provide some subtle to ensure compatibility with BEA, Ora- but helpful benefits for corporate users. cle, and IBM J2EE application platforms. For instance, you can convert .doc files Red Hat says its application server is to .pdf format automatically. tested and supported on all major com- The Linaire Linux 2.9 Professional mercial JVMs, and it will also be certified Edition retails for US$ 40 (EUR 33). ■ with the leading DBMS platforms, http://www.linare.com including Oracle, IBM DB2, and Sybase. Release 0.5.4 is primarily a bug The system has many components – fix release. Perhaps the most impor- some common to the Open Source com- tant fix is actually one to the MySQL munity and some unique to Red Hat. system included with Redwall. Most The Enterprise Application Server com- of Redwall’s logging features depend ponent is based on the Open Source on MySQL, so if you’re using Redwall JOnAS system. The Web application now, the upgrade is highly recom- server is Tomcat, and the Web services mended. ■ infrastructure uses Apache’s AXIS imple- http://www.redwall-firewall.com/ mentation of the SOAP protocol. ■ tiki-index.php http://www.redhat.com

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■Managing in Open Country ■Insert Offers Inside Security ■A New Xandros The new company Open Country Inc, Inside Security announces Version 1.2.14 Xandros announced the release of Xan- has released OC-Manager, a system man- of the Insert Rescue Toolkit. This one- dros Desktop OS Version 2.5. Xandros agement tool designed to lower the total year anniversary release of the Insert Desktop OS is a Linux desktop system cost of ownership for organizations that toolkit contains several upgrades and based on Debian. Previous versions of manage groups of Linux computers. bug fixes. Insert is a bootable Linux Xandros have introduced a range of use- OC-Manager is a browser-based man- rescue system on a credit-card-sized CD- ful interoperability features, such as agement system that supports “remote ROM. The Insert system is based on Active Directory client support and Linux configuration and troubleshoot- Linux kernel 2.4.26 and Knoppix 3.4. cross-platform file sharing with Xandros ing, remote administration and desktop Included with the release are several File Manager (XFL). takeover, asset management, and back- useful tools for network diagnosis and Version 2.5 offers an upgraded version up configuration.” recovery. Tools include the network of CrossOver Office (version 3.0.1) with Designed for both outsourced IT and analysis utilities nmap and tcpdump, support for Lotus Notes 6.5.1, Microsoft in-house IT departments, the product is computer forensics tools such as chk- Project 2000/2002, and Microsoft Out- distribution neutral and so supports Red rootkit, and disaster recovery utilities look XP. Xandros 2.5 comes with Linux Hat, Suse, Mandrake and other Linux such as gpart, partimage, and testdisk. kernel version 2.4.24 and version 1.6 of environments, allowing staff to deploy Insert also provides support for Linux the Mozilla suite. software patches with precision. software RAID and LVM, as well as full The Xandros Desktop OS is available Open Country says OC-Manager works read and write support for NTFS parti- in Standard, Deluxe, and Business edi- for networks with anything from 5 to tions. See this month’s Linux Magazine tions. Xandros provides special upgrade 5000 Linux nodes. ■ for the latest version. ■ pricing for customers who are currently http://www.opencountry.com/company/ http://www.inside-security.de/insert_en. using Xandros Desktop OS 2.0. ■ index.html html http://www.xandros.com/

■VERITAS Finds Truth in Linux ■Little Linuxes VERITAS announced an upgrade to its As the Linux titans battle over which Yet another of the diminutives is Aus- Red Hat Linux-certified Storage Founda- system is the biggest and most robust, a trumi, a 50 MB business card CD based tion suite. Version 4.0 of the Storage new generation of lean distributions is on Slackware. Austumi provides a set of Foundation family, which includes Stor- engaged in the task of making Linux lit- light-weight office applications, gimp age Foundation for Oracle RAC, Storage tle. Last month, you learned about and gqview for graphic image process- Foundation Cluster File System, VERI- DamnSmall Linux. This month brings ing, network tools such as nmap, TAS Cluster Server and Global Cluster yet another crop of the small ones. LinNeighborhood, telnet, ssh, and sftp, Option, and VERITAS Volume Replicator. Puppy Linux Version 9.2.2 runs in a the Opera web browser, mplayer, Storage Foundation includes a new fea- 48-60 MB ramdisk. The Puppy system RipperX audio, and an assortment of ture called the Portable Data Container usually boots from a flash card, USB games. Another interesting addition to that lets users quickly migrate data to memory device, Zip disk, network drive, Austrumi is the MinGW developer and from Linux. internal hard drive, or a set of floppies. studio, a cross-platform IDE for C and The tools in the Storage Foundation Since the whole system runs in RAM C++ developers. ■ family serve specialized roles in the once it is loaded, there is almost nothing http://www.goosee.com/puppy/ Linux enterprise. The Cluster File System to slow it down. Puppy comes with http://featherlinux.berlios.de/ allows concurrent data sharing among Linux kernel 2.4.22, XPaint, wavplay and http://cyti.latgola.lv/ruuni/index_en. Linux clusters. Cluster Server and Global Madplay for playing audio files, and four html Cluster Option provide wide-area web browsers including failover and reduce unplanned down- Mozilla. time for Linux clusters. Storage Feather Linux is another Foundation for Oracle RAC provides a little Linux that boots from a cluster file system and volume manager USB pendrive or CD and for interfacing with enterprise Oracle takes up less than 64 MB. systems. Feather is a stripped down VERITAS argues that the industrial- version of Knoppix 3.4. The strength tools of the Storage Foundation system includes Linux kernel family reduce the risk of data loss, 2.4.26, as well as features increase system efficiency, and enhance such as savplay, Dillo, flexibility for heterogeneous environ- Samba, iptables, Fluxbox, ments. ■ SSH, SCP, and DHCP client http://www.veritas.com support.