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The K Desktop Environment (KDE) Team announced the shipment of KDE 1.1.1, the latest stable release of Linux's most advanced Open Source desktop environment.
KDE 1.1.1 offers users increased stability and ease-of-use. It incorporates many user suggestions and provides a number of enhancements, including improved integration between korganizer and kpilot, improved Internet connectivity, and more stability and extra features in a range of desktop components.
"The KDE project is doing a terrific job of bringing Linux to the desktop, which is why we're basing the GUI for our desktop Linux distribution on KDE," said Dr. Michael Cowpland, president and CEO of Corel™ Corporation. "We look forward to the improvements in KDE 1.1.1."
KDE 1.1.1 is now available for free download from http//www.kde.org/mirrors.html and also from ftp//ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/1.1.1/distribution/.
The secret, daily lives of Internet workers will soon be revealed as Illiad, creator of User Friendly: The Comic Strip, signed on with O'Reilly & Associates to publish a book of his work, due out in stores in October 1999.
After entertaining on-line audiences for almost two years, UF, as it is affectionately called, attracted a dedicated following which surpasses monthly circulation numbers of most leading computer magazines. It has gone on to become the most widely read web-based cartoon on the Internet today.
Thousands of people on the Web read and contribute to the strip every day. The UF website is a division of ParaSun Technologies Inc., an Internet access and entertainment company co-founded by Illiad in 1996. For further information, visit http:// www.userfriendly.org.
Global publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. announced its partnership with Sair, Inc., to publish a series of test preparation guides for the Sair Linux and GNU Certification program.
An advisory board of Linux industry leaders will develop an authoritative, non-proprietary certification program. The comprehensive, four-level training and testing program is aimed at information technology professionals in the private and public sectors. Students will acquire high-level skills and in-depth knowledge of Linux.
Sair, Inc. has partnered with John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and Sylvan Prometric to offer worldwide accessibility to the certification program. In addition, the New Orleans franchise of New Horizons will offer a pilot training program for the first segment of the first level. Other facilities are also set to begin training programs soon.
Linuxcare Inc. recently joined forces with Terra Soft Solutions, developers of Yellow Dog Linux for Apple Macintosh PPC and G3s, to provide enterprise-class support for Yellow Dog Linux solutions.
Known for its vendor-neutral support of Linux software offerings, Linuxcare adds Yellow Dog Linux to the roster of major Linux distributions supported by the firm's per-incident, Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum technical support packages. Yellow Dog Linux offers a compelling solution for Macintosh environments looking to adopt the Linux OS platform.
Yellow Dog Linux builds on the PPC port of the Linux kernel to bring a convenient, packaged Linux distribution to the Macintosh world.
Red Hat Software set off on its own magical mystery tour, visiting large cities across the United States to spread the good word about Open Source Linux.
The "Revolution Road Tour 1999" kicked off in Los Angeles in early June and has stormed through Seattle, San Jose, Washington DC and New York City.
Company representatives planned to be "heralding a new era of choice as we go", giving Linux newbies a chance to learn more about new offerings from major Linux supporters.
Newbies who wish to take their interest further can join Linux User Groups and talk with local entrepreneurs about the market for Open Source software, as well as developers from Red Hat Software.
Final dates and cities are: Miami/June 2526; Austin/July 910; Denver/July 920; Minneapolis/July 1617. For more information, visit http//www.redhat.com/revolution/.
In an attempt to make hardware configuration even easier in Linux, MandrakeSoft recently launched its "Lothar Project". The new project is aimed at facilitating hardware detection, and providing a nice graphical interface. It allows Ethernet and Sound Card configuration, as well as hardware auto-detection using the 'detect' library.
Many Linux users often complain about the trouble they go through when trying to configure hardware under Linux. France-based MandrakeSoft had already started to alleviate the problem with Linux-Mandrake, a Linux distribution released several months ago that is based on Red Hat and enhances the end-user side. Lothar will take this ease-of-use goal a step further.
Lothar is supported by the Linux-Mandrake team and is an Open Source project published under GPL (GNU General Public License). If you wish to learn more about the Lothar Project or wish to contribute to its development, visit http//www.linux-mandrake.com/lothar.
VA Research Inc. and Linux Hardware Solutions [LHS] have joined forces in a strategic acquisition that gave birth to VA Linux Systems, Inc. Under VA President Larry M. Augustin, their merged efforts will help reorganize commercial products while aggressively furthering Linux research and development.
Under their agreement, LHS President Kit Cosper will become the primary advisor for VA's service and support organization, reporting to VA Vice President John Hall. He is charged with overseeing customer support training and maintaining high standards of customer satisfaction. VA will keep some LHS operations in VA's Wilmington, NC, office to address its customers in the Southeast, but its new headquarters will be in Sunnyvale, CA.
Underscoring VA's momentum are company statistics showing 300 percent growth in products shipped. VA's rapid growth rate has exceeded the estimated 212 percent growth statistics that are reported by IDC in its recent findings on Linux.
For more information contact VA at http//www.varesearch.com or call (888) LINUX-4U.
KeyLabs, Inc. announced the release of its vendor-neutral Linux compatibility testing program, one of the first such programs to provide hardware vendors with a way to prove to potential customers that their computer hardware has been tested to verify its compatibility with multiple versions of Linux software.
The testing program gives users the opportunity to choose both server and desktop-class hardware they know has been tested and found to be Linux-compatible. Independent hardware vendors whose products pass all Linux-compatible tests receive a test bulletin, which will be listed on the KeyLabs Web site, and the opportunity to use the "Linux Compatible" logo. For details, visit http//www.keylabs.com, or subscribe to KeyBytes at http//www.keylabs.com/services/emailnews.
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