Linux Cyber Community's
Web Sites of the Week

1. Week 7-11
   1. EasyLinux - eIT's new easyLinux distribution
      1. easyLinux 1.2 (beta) released - first official complete english distribution

2. Week 14-20
   1. Transmeta - Linus Trovald's current project .. not much there yet, just the splash page.
      1. Their work is cloaked in darkness since day one. But they are talking about an architecture the like of which has never been seen. Cruso will run apps from any architecture, faster than the native architecture can, on smaller die sizes with less power requirments.

   Related links

   1. Slashdot
      1. Transmeta Details Continue to Unravel 11/15/99
      2. The Latest Transmeta Rumor 11/11/99
      3. Transmeta to Release Processor in January? 11/10/99

   2. Linux Today
      1. ?škZDNET UK: More on Torvalds' Transmeta mystery? 11/22/99
      2. CNET News.com: Details emerging on secretive start-up Transmeta 11/17/99
      3. IT-Director: Torvalds, Transmeta and the Intel Killer? 11/10/99
      4. Reuters: Secretive Silicon Valley firm works on "smart" chip 11/17/99
      5. CNN: Linux creator speaks about secret new project 11/17/99
      6. Electronic Buyers News: Linux creator offers sneak peak into goal of microprocessor startup 11/16/99
      7. Linux Journal: "And Crusoe is its Name-O" 11/16/99
      8. Tonight On the Linux Show!! Its Transmeta Fever! 11/16/99
      9. The Register: Torvalds confirms Transmeta 19 January 2000 'D-Day' 11/16/99
      10. Transmeta: Arriving January 19th, 2000. The Crusoe Processor 11/16/99
      11. Red Herring: Drilling Deeper into Torvald's Transmeta 11/13/99

3. Week 21-27
   1. GNU detractors - A History Lesson for GNU Detractors
      1. Article by Christian Schaller found on LinuxPower.org
   2. Artificial Intelligence - "Powerful, artificially intelligent network of websites will provide world-class service to the Linux community"
      1. Dave Whitinger announces LinSight on LinuxPR

4. Week 28-04
   1. SANS Institute Online - A Cooperative Education and Research Organization
      1. Sans is a cooperative education and research organization through which more than 62,000 system administrators, security professionals, and network administrators share the lessons they are learning, and find solutions for the challenges they face.

December

1. Week 5-11
   1. Richard Stallman's Personal Home Page
      1. A serious bio, persoal political views, and more.
         "Friends call him RMS aka Saint IGNUcius."

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1. Week 12-18
   1. Welcome To the North Pole
      1. "North.Pole.Org went on-line in 1993 as an e-mail "write to Santa" service.
         Since then it has gone through various permutations. The current version was part of the CD-ROM
         for the book A World's Fair for the Global Village written (1997) by Carl Malamud.

   Note: link to the book is broken on the North.Pole.Org site

   For futher reading

   1. The MIT Press Books
   2. netLibrary - Reference eBooks Can be borrowed online!
      Check netLibrary - Home for more information.
   3. MITP AUTHOR OF THE MONTH CARL MALAMUD INTERVIEW "The Expo Effect: Carl Malamud on
      the Internet 1996 World Exposition"

1. Week 19-25
   1. NASA Shuttle Locator - handy java locator for the shuttle
      Note this link is no longer valid. It may return with next launch?

1. Week 26-31
   ?šk
   1. Compaq Solutions Alliance - Testdrive Homepage
      1. This program allows you to test drive some of the hottest operating systems and hardware available today.
         For example try one of the following: AlphaServer, FreeBSD, Tru64 UNIX, Linux, Oracle, OpenVMS GALAXY, Java, or PAWZ

January

1. Week 1-8
   1. Kumite.com - Computer Virus Myths Home Page
   1. Symantic.com - SARC Virus Hoaxes
   1. Computer Incident Advisory Capability - CIAC Internet Hoaxes
   1. Snoopes.com - Urban Legends Reference Pages
   1. About.com - Urban Legends and Folklore

1. Week 9-15
   1. Linux-Mandrake 7.0 - Annou?škncement for the new (AIR) distro available for download now as well as for purchase in early Febuary.
      1. Many new features and upgrades to the graphical tools for installation, new manual, and over 2000 apps are included in the package.

1. Week 16-22
   1. Domino on Linux - Announcement for the new Lotus-Domino (Release 5.0.1)
      1. Free 90 day trial of the R-5 Server family is available for download after joining the LOTUS Web Membership.

1. Week 22-29
   1. Terry Randall's home page - Great set of Linux pages by one of our own subscribers.

February

1. Week 30-5
   1. Distributed.net
      1. Distributed.net believes in the capability and potential of distributed computing. Our mission consists of three interdependent goals: development, deployment, and advocacy, to be pursued in the advancement of distributed computing.

1. Week 6-12
   1. Manda Manda software, download accelerator for Linux.
      1. This software is still in beta stage.

1. Week 13-19
   1. Mozilla.org Managing the open source development of the Mozilla browser.
      1. They are now offering a security technology as part of its open source project, adding a critical feature set to the Mozilla open source browser. Netscape and Sun are collaborating.

1. Week 20-26
   1. RealNetworks.com Press release by Red Hat and RealNetworks concerning the coming G2player V7 for Linux.
      1. Red Hat and RealNetworks Team to Provide Comprehensive Streaming Media Solutions on Linux

1. Week 27-4
   1. Linux.org - portaloo
      1. Configurable Linux News portal site.
      2. The newly revised linux.org.uk is now driven by the Portaloo porta cgi engine, ?šk alpha copies can be found on ftp.linux.org.uk.

1. Week 5-11

   - DNS servers, Whois server information, and IP addressing -

   1. American Registry for Internet Numbers
      1. The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) is a non-profit organization established for the purpose of administration and registration of Internet Protocol (IP) numbers to the geographical areas formerly managed by Network Solutions, Inc. (NSI) (InterNIC). Those areas include, but are not limited to, North America, South America, sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean.
   1. RIPE NCC
      1. Who does the RIPE NCC give out IP numbers to? Internet numbers are assigned in a distributed fashion by a hierarchical system of Internet Registries (IRs). The RIPE NCC, as regional IR for Europe, allocates ranges of IP network numbers to local IRs for assignment.
   1. Dynamic DNS
      1. The Dynamic DNS service allows you to alias a dynamic IP address to a static hostname, allowing your computer to be more easily accessed from various locations on the Internet. We provide this service for free to the Internet community as a whole.
   1. DHS ?šk
      1. DHS is a provider of free services to the Internet community, ranging from free domain names to web redirection and other free services. DHS aims to provide high quality services through the help of donations and volunteer assistance from the Internet community.
   1. Canadian Domain Registration Center
      1. This one is for Canadians like_mE. You can use their free search engine which lists all the domains still available within the domain levels of .ca, .com, .net and .org
   1. ICANN
      1. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the non-profit corporation that was formed to take over responsibility for the IP address space allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name system management, and root server system management functions now performed under U.S. Government contract by IANA and other entities
   1. DNSO
      1. The DNSO is a Supporting Organisation of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). It advises the ICANN Board with respect to policy issues relating to the Domain Name System.

1. Week 12-18
   1. Solaris[tm] Product Line: Solar?škis 8 Binaries
      1. Solaris introduces their "Free" Solaris 8 (note .. will also run on intel platform)
      2. Downloads, Hardware requirments, Licensing agreements, are all explained with the links found here.

1. Week 19-25
   1. www.perl.com The Source for Perl
      1. Perl 5.6.0 is released! This is the first major release of Perl since 5.005 came out in July 1998.
   2. www.computerworld.com follow up article "Perl 6 to debut in August"
      1. "The current version, Perl 5, is written in C. Perl 6 is a ground-up rewrite using the object-oriented C++ language."

1. Week 26-31
   1. Themes.org
      1. Many links as well as info on your favorite theme.

April

1. Week 2-8
   1. SANS Institute Online
      1. System Administration, Networking, and Security ?šk
      2. The SANS Institute is a cooperative research and education organization through which more than 96,000 system administrators, security professionals, and network administrators share the lessons they are learning and find solutions for challenges they face. SANS was founded in 1989.

1. Week 9-15
   1. 20Q.net
      1. Twenty Questions The neural-net on the Internet

1. Week 16-22
   1. webdevelopersjournal.com
      1. Offerings about How to Write a Request for Proposal for a Web Project

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