user@mosbot:~$ lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 915G/P/GV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 04)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 915G/P/GV PCI Express Root Port (rev 04)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82915G Express Chipset Family Graphics Controller (rev 04)
0000:00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp. 82915G Express Chipset Family Graphics Controller (rev 04)
0000:00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
0000:00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d3)
0000:00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FR (ICH6/ICH6R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FW (ICH6/ICH6W) SATA Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 01)

Update:

Here is the info from booting Ubuntu 5.10 on it:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ dmesg
ash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[4294668.520000] devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
[4294668.520000] devfs: boot_options: 0x0
[4294668.520000] Initializing Cryptographic API
[4294668.520000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:01.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[4294668.521000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
[4294668.521000] assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
[4294668.521000] Allocate Port Service[pcie00]
[4294668.521000] Allocate Port Service[pcie03]
[4294668.521000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[4294668.521000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.0 to 64
[4294668.521000] assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
[4294668.521000] Allocate Port Service[pcie00]
[4294668.521000] Allocate Port Service[pcie02]
[4294668.521000] Allocate Port Service[pcie03]
[4294668.521000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.1[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[4294668.521000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.1 to 64
[4294668.521000] assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
[4294668.521000] Allocate Port Service[pcie00]
[4294668.521000] Allocate Port Service[pcie03]
[4294668.521000] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
[4294668.875000] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[4294668.893000] hpet_acpi_add: no address or irqs in _CRS
[4294668.893000] PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
[4294668.901000] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[4294668.902000] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[4294668.902000] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 54 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[4294668.902000] ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[4294668.904000] ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[4294668.904000] io scheduler noop registered
[4294668.904000] io scheduler anticipatory registered
[4294668.904000] io scheduler deadline registered
[4294668.904000] io scheduler cfq registered
[4294668.905000] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 1048576K size 1024 blocksize
[4294668.931000] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
[4294668.931000] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 2
[4294668.931000] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 5
[4294668.931000] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 6
[4294668.931000] EISA: Detected 0 cards.
[4294668.931000] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[4294668.941000] IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes
[4294668.941000] TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
[4294668.941000] TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[4294668.941000] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
[4294668.941000] NET: Registered protocol family 8
[4294668.941000] NET: Registered protocol family 20
[4294668.942000] ACPI wakeup devices:
[4294668.942000] VBTN PCI0 PCI1 PCI2 PCI3 PCI4 USB0 USB1 USB2 USB3
[4294668.942000] ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
[4294668.942000] RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
[4294669.144000] VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
[4294669.144000] VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
[4294669.144000] Trying to move old root to /initrd ... okay
[4294669.144000] Freeing unused kernel memory: 224k freed
[4294669.228000] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[4294669.902000] usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
[4294669.902000] usbcore: registered new driver hub
[4294669.904000] USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
[4294669.904000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
[4294669.904000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
[4294669.904000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1
[4294669.966000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[4294669.966000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 21, io base 0x0000ff80
[4294669.967000] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[4294669.967000] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[4294669.970000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
[4294669.970000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
[4294669.970000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2
[4294670.032000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
[4294670.033000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 22, io base 0x0000ff60
[4294670.034000] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[4294670.034000] hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[4294670.037000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[4294670.037000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
[4294670.037000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3
[4294670.099000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
[4294670.099000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 18, io base 0x0000ff40
[4294670.100000] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[4294670.100000] hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[4294670.103000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.3[D] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
[4294670.103000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.3 to 64
[4294670.103000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4
[4294670.165000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
[4294670.165000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: irq 23, io base 0x0000ff20
[4294670.166000] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[4294670.166000] hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[4294670.292000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
[4294670.293000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
[4294670.293000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller
[4294670.293000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
[4294670.304000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
[4294670.304000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 21, io mem 0xffa80800
[4294670.308000] PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
[4294670.308000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
[4294670.309000] hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
[4294670.309000] hub 5-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
[4294670.431000] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
[4294670.431000] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
[4294670.431000] ACPI: bus type ide registered
[4294670.471000] SCSI subsystem initialized
[4294670.472000] libata version 1.11 loaded.
[4294670.474000] ata_piix version 1.03
[4294670.474000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[C] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
[4294670.474000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
[4294670.474000] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFE00 ctl 0xFE12 bmdma 0xFEA0 irq 20
[4294670.474000] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFE20 ctl 0xFE32 bmdma 0xFEA8 irq 20
[4294670.629000] ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7f01 84:4003 85:3469 86:3e01 87:4003 88:207f
[4294670.629000] ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 156250000 sectors: lba48
[4294670.632000] ata1: dev 1 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7f01 84:4003 85:3469 86:3e01 87:4003 88:207f
[4294670.632000] ata1: dev 1 ATA, max UDMA/133, 156250000 sectors: lba48
[4294670.632000] ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
[4294670.632000] ata1: dev 1 configured for UDMA/133
[4294670.632000] scsi0 : ata_piix
[4294670.795000] ATA: abnormal status 0xFF on port 0xFE27
[4294670.795000] ata2: disabling port
[4294670.795000] scsi1 : ata_piix
[4294670.795000] Vendor: ATA Model: ST380013AS Rev: 8.12
[4294670.796000] Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
[4294670.797000] Vendor: ATA Model: ST380013AS Rev: 8.12
[4294670.797000] Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
[4294670.909000] usb 4-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3[4294671.000000] hub 4-1:1.0: USB hub found
[4294671.002000] hub 4-1:1.0: 3 ports detected
[4294671.219000] usb 4-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
[4294671.456000] usb 4-1.1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5
[4294671.884000] SCSI device sda: 156250000 512-byte hdwr sectors (80000 MB)
[4294671.884000] SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
[4294671.885000] SCSI device sda: 156250000 512-byte hdwr sectors (80000 MB)
[4294671.885000] SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
[4294671.885000] /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2
[4294671.946000] Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
[4294671.966000] SCSI device sdb: 156250000 512-byte hdwr sectors (80000 MB)
[4294671.966000] SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
[4294671.967000] SCSI device sdb: 156250000 512-byte hdwr sectors (80000 MB)
[4294671.967000] SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
[4294671.967000] /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1
[4294672.013000] Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
[4294672.037000] usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
[4294672.212000] input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [413c:3010] on usb-0000:00:1d.3-2
[4294672.263000] input: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [Dell Dell USB Keyboard Hub] on usb-0000:00:1d.3-1.1
[4294672.284000] input: USB HID v1.10 Device [Dell Dell USB Keyboard Hub] on usb-0000:00:1d.3-1.1
[4294672.284000] usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
[4294672.284000] drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.01:USB HID core driver
[4294672.840000] ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1])
[4294673.240000] usbcore: registered new driver usbkbd
[4294673.240000] drivers/usb/input/usbkbd.c: :USB HID Boot Protocol keyboard driver
[4294673.252000] usbcore: registered new driver usbserial
[4294673.255000] drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for Generic
[4294673.258000] usbcore: registered new driver usbserial_generic
[4294673.258000] drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial Driver core v2.0
[4294673.461000] vga16fb: initializing
[4294673.461000] vga16fb: mapped to 0xc00a0000
[4294673.476000] fb0: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device
[4294673.592000] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
[4294679.515000] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[4294679.838000] parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
[4294679.838000] parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, using FIFO [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP]
[4294682.404000] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[4294682.408000] usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
[4294682.408000] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[4294682.439000] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
[4294685.450000] floppy0: no floppy controllers found
[4294686.197000] ICH6: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
[4294686.197000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[4294686.197000] ICH6: chipset revision 3
[4294686.197000] ICH6: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
[4294686.197000] ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
[4294686.197000] Probing IDE interface ide0...
[4294686.869000] hda: TSST CD-RW/DVD-ROM TSH492B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[4294687.481000] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
[4294687.534000] Probing IDE interface ide1...
[4294688.047000] Probing IDE interface ide2...
[4294688.559000] Probing IDE interface ide3...
[4294689.071000] Probing IDE interface ide4...
[4294689.583000] Probing IDE interface ide5...
[4294690.127000] ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
[4294690.205000] hda: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
[4294690.205000] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[4294690.895000] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
[4294690.919000] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
[4294695.640000] tg3.c:v3.31 (June 8, 2005)
[4294695.640000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[4294695.640000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
[4294695.649000] eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95751) rev 4001 PHY(5750)] (PCIX:100MHz:32-bit) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:12:3f:9a:1b:49
[4294695.649000] eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[1] MIirq[1] ASF[0] Split[0] WireSpeed[1] TSOcap[1]
[4294695.649000] eth0: dma_rwctrl[76180000]
[4294697.386000] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
[4294700.397000] floppy0: no floppy controllers found
[4294701.150000] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[4294719.972000] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
[4294722.983000] floppy0: no floppy controllers found
[4294723.744000] cloop: Initializing cloop v2.01
[4294723.866000] cloop: loaded (max 8 devices)
[4294723.993000] loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
[4294724.008000] device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
[4294724.480000] cloop: losetup_file: 32753 blocks, 65536 bytes/block, largest block is 65562 bytes.
[4294724.509000] EXT2-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
[4294757.020000] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[4294757.021000] Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c02eb280(lo)
[4294757.021000] IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
[4294758.018000] apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
[4294758.018000] apm: overridden by ACPI.
[4294760.946000] Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
[4294767.494000] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[4294770.944000] md: md driver 0.90.1 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
[4294774.338000] Adding 1951888k swap on /dev/sda2. Priority:-1 extents:1
[4294789.096000] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
[4294795.630000] agpgart: Detected an Intel 915G Chipset.
[4294795.630000] agpgart: Detected 7932K stolen memory.
[4294795.658000] agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xc0000000
[4294795.834000] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[4294795.838000] shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
[4294795.838000] shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
[4294795.920000] shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
[4294795.920000] shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
[4294795.986000] shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
[4294795.986000] shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
[4294796.223000] hw_random: RNG not detected
[4294796.368000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1e.2[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
[4294796.368000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.2 to 64
[4294796.677000] intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49222 usecs
[4294796.677000] intel8x0: clocking to 48000
[4294799.676000] input: PC Speaker
[4294799.742000] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
[4294800.365000] ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
[4294807.140000] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
[4294807.140000] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [VBTN]
[4294807.258000] Using specific hotkey driver
[4294807.298000] ibm_acpi: ec object not found
[4294832.272000] apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
[4294832.272000] apm: disabled on user request.
[4294832.428000] [drm] Initialized drm 1.0.0 20040925
[4294832.432000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[4294832.435000] [drm] Initialized i915 1.2.0 20040405 on minor 0: Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset Family Graphics Controller
[4294832.435000] mtrr: base(0xc0020000) is not aligned on a size(0x800000) boundary
[4294837.585000] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.7
[4294837.585000] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[4294837.585000] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[4294837.585000] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[4294837.598000] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.7
[4294837.598000] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[4294837.734000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.5
[4294837.734000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[4294837.734000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ cd /etc
ubuntu@ubuntu:/etc$ cd X*
ubuntu@ubuntu:/etc/X11$ ls
app-defaults gdm xkb Xsession
config rgb.txt xorg.conf Xsession.d
default-display-manager X Xresources Xsession.options
fonts xinit xserver Xwrapper.config
ubuntu@ubuntu:/etc/X11$ more xorg.conf
# /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the /etc/X11/xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man /etc/X11/xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following commands:
#
# cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.custom
# sudo sh -c 'md5sum /etc/X11/xorg.conf >/var/lib/xfree86/xorg.conf.md5sum'
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

Section "Files"
FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server
# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/CID"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"
# paths to defoma fonts
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "GLcore"
Load "bitmap"
Load "ddc"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "type1"
Load "vbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Corporation i915 Integrated Graphics Controller"
Driver "i810"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "DELL 1905FP"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Intel Corporation i915 Integrated Graphics Controller"
Monitor "DELL 1905FP"
DefaultDepth 24
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This SuSE GNU/Linux 9.0 installation tree is suitable for installation via ftp, http, nfs, smb or hard disk.

System requirements

You need at least 128MB main memory. To install on a machine with less
memory a (GNU/Linux) swap partition is necessary.

Preparation

o booting from CD

Download the iso image boot/boot.iso and burn a CD with it.
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/x86_64/9.0/boot/

Installation

Boot from that CD and at the bootpromt enter the installation source:

GNU/Linux install=ftp://ftp_server/directory

Remember to substitute 'ftp_server' and 'directory' with the appropriate
values (e.g. install=ftp://[IP-ADDRESS]/pub/suse/x86_64/9.0 if you're
installing from the SuSE ftp server).

Alternatively, choose 'manual installation' and configure the network in
the installation program.

“Use of Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense,” released Oct. 28 by Mitre Corp., Bedford, Mass., identified more than 115 open-source programs being used in 251 tasks. [...]

“The actual levels of DoD use of such ubiquitous applications is likely to be hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of time larger than the number of examples identified in the brief survey,” the report said.

Freely available programs such as the Perl programming language, the GNU/Linux operating systems and Sendmail were particularly prevalent, the report said.
[...]
The report concludes that open source software “plays a more critical role in the [Defense Department] than has generally been recognized,” particularly in the areas of infrastructure support, software development, security and research.
[...]
The Mitre report concluded that a hypothetical ban on open-source software “would have immediate, broad, and strongly negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused [Defense Department] groups to defend against cyberattacks.”

However, it recommended the agency create a “generally recognized as safe” list of proven-safe applications and encourage companies to develop commercial versions of open source software.

The move is part of a broader technology overhaul that has seen the company install fresh storage gear from market leader EMC and look towards the second phase of its disaster recovery plan.

Lasseters chief information officer Mark Robertson said that the move to GNU/Linux had been driven by the high cost of Microsoft's latest licensing scheme.

"We're consolidating, getting rid of a lot of Microsoft and putting in more installations of GNU/Linux,"
"We're trying to increase our reliability and flexibility and have been talking to IBM and Compaq."
Mr Robertson said.

[Their] method of charging a separate licence fee for each computer processing unit has implications on my organisation's ability to be flexible in the number of computer servers it uses for Lasseters online.

Lasseters has not been shy about overhauling its technology. The company has also swapped out its Sun Microsystems data storage systems for those from storage market leader EMC.

Less than two months after the initial launch of the instant messaging bot making technology on the Windows NT platform, ActiveBuddy said the move to embrace GNU/Linux was necessary to extend the technology to developers serving the enterprise market.
It means developers on the GNU/Linux platform can now download the BuddyScript software development kit and sign up to license the BuddyScript Server to run interactive agents (bots).
The tools include the BuddyScript IDE, an Integrated Development Environment that allows developers to write, test, and debug interactive agents and the BuddyScript Server Developer Edition for test deployment of bot projects on instant messaging networks or web chat clients.
Once a developer has created an interactive agent with the BuddyScript software, Activebuddy makes money from licensing and hosting the bots on its own servers.

OPTICAL DRIVE MANUFACTURER TC Lawson Optical Technology was tired of using Microsoft’s Exchange to handle its corporate e-mail and decided to experiment with GNU/Linux instead. So about two years ago, the Hong Kong-based company, which has 70 full-time employees, got an AMD K-6 PC, installed GNU/Linux, and turned the box into an e-mail server.

“We found that it was very, very stable,” says Carson Law, the company’s engineering manager. He was impressed. Now the company’s file servers, Web server and fax gateway operate on GNU/Linux. At its factories, GNU/Linux software runs the production facilities and track logistics.

Besides being cheaper than Windows, GNU/Linux also allowed the company to delay upgrading its hardware as GNU/Linux does not need fast hardware to run well. Using GNU/Linux also saved time.[...]

TC Lawson is by no means alone. All around Asia, companies are finding that turning to GNU/Linux has significant advantages. The OS is free and more stable. This translates into significant cost savings because companies do not have to pay licensing fees, and they do not need to devote many resources to just maintaining the system.

[...]GNU/Linux products will mature with time and will slowly approach the richness of features available to Windows. The increasing amount of software available on GNU/Linux makes it easier for companies to take the open source route.

For example, the release of GNU/Linux’s latest version of Open Office in Chinese was a significant reason why Neonlite was willing to move to a GNU/Linux desktop. It was critical for the company to be able to offer its users an office productivity suite in Chinese. The latest release handles Chinese characters much better than the previous version. There are now two Chinese versions of Open Office—KaiOffice and ThizOffice—both of which support traditional and simplified Chinese.
[...]
Finally, GNU/Linux is getting a helping hand from an unlikely source—Microsoft. The software giant’s new licensing regime is proving to be a sore point among businesses large and small.

Small companies, already cost-sensitive, are not fans of the scheme which essentially takes away the decision to upgrade and increases the cost of using Microsoft software. Large companies are similarly unhappy at the loss of independence and are looking at alternatives with renewed interest.

The IT head of a large Hong Kong company who does not want to be identified says he has been looking at a GNU/Linux desktop as part of an ongoing policy of identifying alternatives to Microsoft. He stresses that he has not made a decision to drop Windows, but he wants to make sure that his bases are covered.

Based on linked
By Bruce Porter, JCNN
Aug. 28, 23:07 (JST)

On the new software platform, called GNU Bayonne, Version 1.0, developers can write open-source applications for phone system functions in an enterprise such as call direction, voice prompts, voice mail and automated order processing. Although it was developed with enterprises in mind, carriers also can use it as the basis for applications such as customer voice mail and prepaid cell phone services, according to David Sugar, head of the GNU Bayonne project. Sugar also is the chief technology officer of Open Source Telecom, which has provided commercial sponsorship of GNU Bayonne development.

"Any type of voice application that requires application programming logic can be [created with] Bayonne today," Sugar said.
[...]
The developers of GNU Bayonne paid attention to the emerging carrier-class GNU/Linux code as they developed the telephony software and intend to make it compatible with carrier-class GNU/Linux, Sugar said.

Development versions of GNU Bayonne already are being used by government agencies, mobile operators and corporations around the world, according to Sugar.
[...]

"However, it won't be taking a lot of market share away from Unix. The main threat will be to low-end Windows, particularly edge of the network. By 2006 we'll start to see some midrange and even enterprise deployments of GNU/Linux."

Boon thinks GNU/Linux will be Unix's saviour; Windows would otherwise take over the market totally. "GNU/Linux will hold Windows at bay and there will be enough room for the other three. Windows will grow but not as significantly as it would have if GNU/Linux hadn't been around."

Boon says a Gartner survey two years ago asked users if they thought GNU/Linux had the same capabilities as other mainstream operating systems. Positive responses were very low. This year 40% of responses said GNU/Linux has the same capabilities. The downside for GNU/Linux is that while it will challenge Windows at the low end, future releases of Windows .Net will start to impede GNU/Linux's gains in the enterprise, says Boon.

China MobileSoft Ltd. (CMS) built its mGNU/Linux for Smart Phones software around its mGNU/Linux kernel, which is derived from a GNU/Linux kernel developed by Red Hat Inc., said Liu Bing, business manager at CMS at the CeBIT Asia show on Monday. The mGNU/Linux kernel requires 200K bytes of memory and can be used in 3G (third-generation) mobile handsets, he said.

The mGNU/Linux for Smart Phones package ships with a Web browser that supports WML (Wireless Markup Language) 1.3, HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) 4.0, and cHTML (Compact HTML), a subset of HTML developed for NTT DoCoMo Inc.'s I-mode mobile Internet service.

It also includes a Java virtual machine, KJava, which allows users to download and run games and applications written using Java, Liu said. Personal information management and e-mail applications are also available.

The company demonstrated the mGNU/Linux for Smart Phones software on a development system here at the exhibition. Smart phones based on the software are expected to be released in China in the coming months, Liu said.

In addition to smart phone software, CMS, in Nanjing, China, offers versions of mGNU/Linux that are designed for use in PDAs (personal digital assistants) and Internet appliances. The operating system will run on a variety of processors, including Texas Instrument Inc.'s Omap and Intel Corp.'s Xscale chips, the company said.

Sumner Lemon, IDG News Service, 2002-09-03

The announcement, made on Wednesday, stated that from now on, all software developed for the government must be licenced under the GPL. The entire policy was summed up in this statement by Dr. Felipe Pérez-Martí, Planning and Development Minister: "Open source whenever possible, propietary software only when necesary."

José Luis Rey, one of Pérez-Martí's advisors, indicated that before the announcement was made, the country's Executive Committee was consulted and the majority of the menbers of that committee were in favor of the plan.

Rey also outlined additional details of the plan. Besides the government's GPL requirement, the policy requires that the official accounting application for Venezeula must be a GPL'ed application. The policy also states that the government will openly combat software piracy by purging all unlicensed copies of software from its offices.

Additionally, the policy also outlines a new Internet access program where all machines would be GNU/Linux-based and held under community franchise.

Pérez-Martí has been described by various South American media outlets as an economist who has been interested in open source for quite some time.

At the GNU/LinuxWeek 2000 conference, Pérez-Martí presented a paper about free software sustainability entitled: "On Altruism, Efficiency and Public Goods, Application: GNU/Linux Environment"

Pérez-Martí has also surrounded himself with a great wealth of technical advisors, including Ricardo Ricardo Strusberg, former president of the Venezulean GNU/Linux Users Group (VELUG) and current president of the Association of GNU/Linux Users of Latin America and Spain and Jose Neif, the Mexican programmer who is best known for the GNU/LinuxPPP distribution. These advisors were clearly influential in reaching this new policy decision.

Ernesto Hernández-Novich, current president of VELUG, and a part-time advisor to Pérez-Martí, welcomes the new policy whole-heartedly. He also outlined some of the bumps the policymakers are working to smooth over.

"This of course, requires additional considerations that are being carefully written by [Pérez-Martí's] advisors in terms of the use of a freely available standard format to exchange information, ease of transformation of this information without needing propietary software, and the need to make free (as in GPL-compatible) all software funded by the Government."

In an interview (in Spanish) with LaRed.com, Pérez-Martí outlined one of the big reasons why this policy was announced. According to Pérez-Martí, the government and the people of Venezeula were increasingly concerned that over 75 percent of the funds for software licenses went to foreign nations, 20 percent to foreign support agencies, and only 5 percent to Venezuelan programmers.

Pérez-Martí indicated that they wish to implement this new policy so that now Venezulan programmers will be handling most of the government's software needs, though keeping a large amount of government funds within the nation itself.

These villagers can use these Jhai computers to communicate in the Lao language by email and by voice with each other and with others, for example, people who buy their products in Vientiane and our staff in the United States. The Jhai computers will also provide them with the opportunity to do simple business functions like writing documents and creating spreadsheets for budgetary and simple accounting purposes.

The design team is headed by Lee Felsenstein assisted by Mark Summer. The software is GNU/Linux-based and is being localized into the Lao language by Anousak Souphavanh and his team.

The equipment consists of a 486-comparable computer with a keyboard, a roller ball, a LCD screen, and a dot matrix printer in each village. This equipment is hardened and we hope it lasts 10 years. The computer itself has no moving parts.

The equipment will be powered by electricity stored in a car battery charged by "foot cranks" which are essentially bicycle wheels and pedals hooked to a small generator. The generator is connected to a car battery and the car battery is connected to the computer.

Benchmarks conducted by the DSI using common off-the-shelf hardware demonstrate that HyperSCSI can achieve 100MB/s sustained data throughput using a 2GB size data set. There was no requirement for customized hardware, device drivers, accelerator chips or proprietary software. In another demonstration, HyperSCSI was used to display smooth DVD video played directly from a standard DVD drive over an 802.11b Wireless LAN network.

"The future is pretty clear. Why not go for the 'full Monty' in the data center?" asked Michael Tiemann, chief technical officer for Red Hat. In just about the same breath, Tiemann mentioned "Oracle on Red Hat."

For the earlier deployment, Amazon.com ultimately picked GNU/Linux as the most cost-effective way to ramp up its online operations. Internal consensus didn't come easily at Amazon.com, though, back in the year 2000.
[...]
"We had a lot of skeptics within the company, however, who thought we were going down the wrong path," he said. Initially, the cynics included six Microsoft administrators. By now, though, two of those six have turned more toward GNU/Linux, and another two have actually changed into avid GNU/Linux buffs, according to Levanon.
[...]
Amazon.com compromised in the end, opting to port "90 percent of the implementation"--everything but the data center--over a 120-day period that began on September 1, 2000. Amazon.com used Red Hat's Kickstart architecture to finish most of the work prior to the pre-holiday season.
[...]
Amazon.com and Red Hat set up an implementation plan, and then followed it to the letter, according to Levanon "A good plan and execution is what it takes." Migrators from the two companies spent "days in a row without sleep."
[...]Joe Barker, senior systems engineer at Amazon.com, is quoted as saying that GNU/Linux made it possible to replace $60,000 Unix boxes with $10,000 PC servers.
[...]
Tiemann suggested that Red Hat is equally enthusiastic about a data center implementation at Amazon.com, partly because of the added hands-on experience this will bring.
[...]

Telstra Retail CIO John Pittard said that while Telstra was not using GNU/Linux at present, it was considering the OS in its wide ranging IT review that will dictate the future direction of operating platforms supporting Telstra’s 45,000 desktops.

Such a move could see Microsoft further sidelined at its biggest Australian customer, following a recent deal with Sun Microsystems that will see Java 2 used as Telstra’s web services platform, as well as revelations that Telstra is considering Sun’s StarOffice desktop application suite as a possible replacement for Microsoft Office on some or all of its 45,000 desktops.

Pittard said one of the main criteria used in selecting Sun for the web services deal was “the total cost of ownership over five or six years.” Other short listed hopefuls for that deal are believed to have been Microsoft and IBM.

After a long hibernation in the Australasian business and government market, GNU/Linux has made some headline wins recently with the Federal Department of Veterans Affairs planning a large scale GNU/Linux roll out and Air New Zealand also opting to use the open source OS.

The state of automation in Building 323 is such that 20,000 sensors are used to track wafer lots in front-opening unified pods that are transported from one tool to the next on rails using linear induction motors. The setup resembles an intricate monorail system tuned to millimeter-precision specs. A central control system monitors all stations and tracks wafer lots via 802.11 wireless communications. Technicians and engineers in bunny suits walk the floor with wireless PC notebooks, monitoring the lots.

"This is the first fab whose IT infrastructure is all GNU/Linux-based, controlled by some 1,700 1-GHz microprocessors able to access some 600 terabytes of data," said Perry Hartswick, project manager for factory integration solutions. "Together with Cisco, we developed this IT manufacturing environment with off-the-shelf parts."

GNU/Linux beats Windows

Hartswick said GNU/Linux was evaluated against a Windows-based system and performed flawlessly for three months, whereas the Windows-based system failed after six or seven days.

An internally developed master software system called SiView controls all manufacturing operations. An IBM spokesperson said the manufacturing execution system is being licensed to others for fab control.

As for the intended output of Building 323, Bijan Davari, vice president for technology and emerging products, said the company has "spent $500 million on process development alone in order to maintain our technology leadership, and we are experiencing a significant recovery via intellectual-property licensing and alliances. Our value proposition is that we are one to two years ahead of the best of the best."

Davari, whose mission is to drive industry-defined breakthroughs from the laboratory into manufacturing as quickly as possible, maintained that "IBM is not a me-too foundry business" but works with a set of customers that are able to leverage the best technology.

Nearly lost among the plethora of corporate news coming out of the GNU/LinuxWorld Conference and Expo last week was the announcement of a pilot program that organizers hope will eventually lead to wide-scale adoption of Open Source software by public schools.

Last Tuesday, the Open-Source Software Institute announced it was joining a couple of Mississippi education institutions to sponsor a Ph.D-level study on the viability of using Open Source software in public schools.
Organizers, which include the North Mississippi Education Consortium and the University of Mississippi's School of Education, believe the study will show cost savings and other benefits of using Open Source software in schools, where budgets are often tight.

John Weathersby, OSSI founder and chairman, says the goal of the study is for it to be a "logical and practical" guide for schools looking at Open Source software as an alternative. "I keep going back to practicality, because I think that's extremely important," Weathersby says. "Technology for technology's sake is not worth a lot to me, but technology that's applied, that's where the true value comes in."

Study author Don Schillinger, an instructor and Ph.D. student at the Old Miss School of Education, expects the study will come up with solid numbers on the cost benefits and other reasons to use Open Source software. "We'd really like to help the schools implement some solutions that might save them quite a bit of money," he says. "It's our hope that they can take the money they might spend on technology and give them at least as good or better technology and put the extra money back into the schools.

Schillinger says he also plans to look at other benefits, such as security and scalability. "If we can run some of these solutions on machines that aren't as technologically advanced as most of us use -- some of these classrooms have some very old machines -- if we can run the software and run it securely, we can give students who might otherwise not have the opportunity an opportunity to use some of this software," he says.
[...]
One issue that Schillinger will focus on is compatibility between Open Source software and proprietary packages that schools are using. "If it's not compatible, then we've got a big problem," he says. "Can we fix it and make it work? Schools can't just throw away all the proprietary software they're using."

Schillinger says he'll go where the results lead him. "If it doesn't work, I still get a good research project out of it," he says. "I'd really be upset because the whole idea is to help schools. I don't expect it to be 100% compatible -- that'd be a dream. But if we can show 90% compatibility and a tremendous cost savings, a lot of people would go for that."

To test a handful of schools, the study organizers plan to put together a package of Open Source tools for schools that can be customized for individual schools' needs, and the group has a commitment from the Gnome Foundation and several other organizations to help with any programming that may be needed to customize Open Source software for schools.

But the study isn't meant to compete with other Open Source school software projects. Weathersby's OSSI has joined the Schoolforge coalition of Open Source school projects and will draw on that group for software packages.

"We want to make it as intuitive, as easy and as seamless as possible for them to have the opportunity to choose a free and Open Source solution," Weathersby says. "It's great that the technology is just as good as, if not better than, proprietary systems. But if people can't use it, if they can't become acclimated to it quickly and rather seamlessly, then it becomes prohibitive. We're trying to smooth over those rough spots."

Although HP has benefited from his GNU/Linux expertise, the company has been putting pressure on Perens to mute his activist tendencies. In late July, the Palo Alto, Calif., company forced Perens to cancel a demonstration he had planned that would have put him at risk of violating the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). His boss, Martin Fink defended the decision, and noted that he "didn't want any of his employees going to jail."

Perens was to reveal the recipe for a software program that would allow a DVD (digital video/versatile disc) player to circumvent some digital rights management (DRM) technology. Such a demonstration is prohibited under the DMCA, Perens said. He had aimed to show how trivial most DRM technologies are.

"The big theme of GNU/LinuxWorld is the momentum it has in the enterprise," said Mark de Visser, vice president of marketing at Red Hat. "The momentum is exemplified by the arrival of corporate customers who are saying 'we've deployed it.'"

IBM recently announced that nine new customers have jumped aboard the GNU/Linux bandwagon, including 7-Eleven and Air New Zealand -- both of whom will use GNU/Linux to run and protect their email systems. And, Hewlett-Packard said GNU/Linux helped L-3 Communications integrate a network of workstations into an airport security scanning system.

At the same time, the GNU/Linux spotlight is turning up in the more mission-critical areas of corporate computing. And in this area, GNU/Linux is making enormous strides in shoring up confidence in its ability to deliver applications and huge strings of data in addition to simply web pages.

But now GNU/Linux isn't merely powering up the Web server, it's also being used in mainframes to power up the application server. In the case of Air New Zealand, IBM has replaced some 150 Compaq servers with a single eServer zSeries mainframe that runs GNU/Linux and IBM's Websphere Application Server software. And BEA Systems, whose WebLogic Enterprise Platform runs neck-and-neck to IBM's Websphere as the market-leading app server, is also supporting GNU/Linux OS environments.

"The UNIX platforms are being replaced by GNU/Linux," de Visser said.

the reason it took so long for GNU/Linux to be deployed on a wide scale wasn't so much due to lack of confidence in its performance and stability but due to procedural hurdles (like customer certifications) that typically confront all new technologies. But now support from the entire IT community is beginning to hit critical mass.

Yet, despite the inroads that GNU/Linux has made in recent years, server-side deployment business still dwarfs the amount of business that GNU/Linux does on the client side of computing. And as such, Red Hat doesn't plan much hoopla at next week's show for its current Red Hat 7.3 nor its upcoming version 8.0 known as Limbo. The individual software packages are considered to be more of a retail product.

"There is still a huge market for the client side," forecasted Al Gillen, research director of system software at IDC.

And the most obvious hurdle with that tactic is Microsoft's monopoly. But at an increasingly cost competitive time, Microsoft's new licensing program just might have opened the door for competitors.

"There will be a desktop side of GNU/Linux that will be growing when you can get GNU/Linux and productivity software for less than what Microsoft offers," Claybrook said.

The hits just keep on coming
GNU/Linux is a natural choice for enterprises, such as retail systems and cable networks, with potentially thousands of limited function devices. In May, Sherwin Williams, one of the largest paint manufacturers and distributors in North America, announced that IBM had assisted it in creating a new retail sales system for its 2,500 stores. It will be one of the largest rollouts of a GNU/Linux-based system to date.

In addition to handling its point-of-sale operations, the system will run the company's color-match software and let employees communicate using GNU/Linux-based e-mail and browser software. Sherwin Williams will save millions of dollars in software licensing fees-funds it can funnel toward systems development and customer service. Running the incredibly efficient GNU/Linux on less powerful-and less expensive-user terminals at the endpoints of its network will save additional dollars that drop directly to the bottom line.

GNU/Linux is also gaining momentum in financial services, a traditional Unix stronghold. Both Credit Suisse First Boston and Merrill Lynch have converted major systems to GNU/Linux. As more software companies provide Unix product versions, financial services companies are discovering that they can provide the same services on commodity Intel PCs using GNU/Linux.

Winners and losers
As more markets warm to GNU/Linux, there will be repercussions across the tech industry. If GNU/Linux adoption were to accelerate rapidly, some companies are in a position to lose big, while some others could become the big winners.

But in the long run, GNU/Linux may dramatically lower Microsoft's chances of taking over the data center with Windows 2000, the .Net Server, and its .Net Framework. That's because there are so many companies that would benefit from having a data-center OS standard that nobody owns and requires no licensing fees.

Sun Chief Executive Scott McNealy is scheduled to announce Sun's blade servers on Aug. 12 in San Francisco and its GNU/Linux products Aug. 13 in the opening keynote of the GNU/LinuxWorld Conference and Expo.

"You're going to see a great big new GNU/Linux world out of Sun," McNealy said in July after Sun reported its latest financial results--a temporary step back into profitability despite even though its profit margins are eroding.

The twin moves are critical for Sun as it seeks to stave off competition from Intel, Microsoft and their allies. GNU/Linux has put pressure on Sun's arch-foe Microsoft, but conversely GNU/Linux servers from rivals have eaten into Sun's low-end server sales, the company has said.

Blade servers, while still comprising a young market, already have emerged from HP and the start-up RLX Technologies, and are scheduled to debut at IBM and Dell Computer this fall.

GNU/Linux and blade servers sit at the low end of Sun's product line. .
Supporting GNU/Linux on general-purpose servers, though, will mark a major difference in that Sun will have to make sure its entire Sun Open Network Environment (Sun ONE) software collection works on GNU/Linux as well as Solaris. Sun also will have to stay on top of bug fixes and make sure GNU/Linux systems can be easily managed.

While Sun has agreed with IBM that GNU/Linux is worth backing, it disagrees about where it's best used. IBM backs GNU/Linux on everything from Intel servers to its top-end mainframes, but Sun advocates its use only on relatively low-end servers with just one or two processors.

Sun's version of GNU/Linux is based on the version from Red Hat, Sun executives have said.

A slice of the blade market
Sun has pushed aggressively into the market for slim servers, with its 1.75-inch-thick V100 model sneaking in at less than $1,000. Its blade products are the next step in this direction, packing more processing power into less space.
Servers based on Intel processors are often hard to tell apart, but blade servers are taking a wide variety of shapes as server makers find different ways to squeeze computers into their enclosures.

HP's existing blade servers squeeze 20 into a 5.25-inch enclosure, while pioneer RLX managed 24 in the same size.

Sun's system also includes a built-in network switch to ease communications among the different blades and to the outside network.

While plans currently are not in place to provide an official Notes client for GNU/Linux, we understand that having particular
functionality that the Notes client provides is very desirable for much of the GNU/Linux community. With this in mind we are
providing step by step instructions on how to get the standard Win32 Notes client working over WINE on GNU/Linux. This
configuration has not been certified by Lotus Development so at this time Lotus would be unable to support any issues
that arise while using the Notes client within a WINE environment.
1. 1.Download Wine and Wine-Development binaries
a. Login to GNU/Linux as root
b. Go to: www.rpmfind.net
c. Search for: wine
i. Select wine-YYYYMMDD-2.ix86.rpm (replace x with 3,5 or 6 depending on your architecture, and
YYYMMDD with the closest date to today’s date.)
ii. Save it to your home directory
d. Search for: wine-devel
i. Select wine-devel-YYYYMMDD-2.ix86.rpm (select corresponding x value from above,and YYYMMDD
with the closest date to today’s date.))
ii. Save file to your home directory
2. Install the Wine and Wine-Development binaries
a. Open a shell/terminal
b. Execute: rpm -ivh wine*.rpm (This will install the wine binaries)
3. Configure Wine
a. From a shell/terminal execute:
i. Change directories to your home directory
ii. Execute: cd
iii. Execute: cp /etc/wine/config .wine/config
Note: Enter yes if prompted to overwrite existing file
b. From a shell/terminal execute:
i. gedit .wine/config
c. Setup c drive location
i. Find Section starting with [Drive C]
ii. Change Path= to be Path=${HOME}/wine
d. Change the following lines in [DLLOverrides] Section
i. comdlg32 = builtin, native to comdlg32 = native,elfdll,builtin
ii. comdlg =builtin,native to comdlg=native,elfdll,builtin
e. Change the following line in [Tweak.Layout] section
i. WineLook=Win95 to WineLook=Win98
ii. Save and close the file
Step-By-Step Instructions For Installing Wine and Notes Win32 Client
4. Setup your directories using one of the following methods:
a. From command shell execute following commands:
mkdir ~/wine
mkdir ~/wine/windows
mkdir ~/wine/windows/system
mkdir ~/wine/windows/Profiles
mkdir ~/wine/windows/Profiles/Administrator
mkdir "~/wine/windows/Start Menu"
mkdir "~/wine/windows/Start Menu/Programs"
touch ~/wine/windows/win.ini
b. Or using the Filemanager for Gnome or KDE create the following directories in your home directory
(/home/username):
wine
wine/windows
wine/windows/system
wine/windows/Profiles
wine/windows/Profiles/Administrator
wine/window/Start Menu
wine/windows/Start Menu/Programs
Note: To create a directory right click in a blank area of the Filemanager and click New/Folder. Enter
the folder/directory name then click on OK.
5. Test Wine: wine -version (If all goes well you will get the version info for wine)
6. Put the latest version of Notes in your cdrom drive, or copy installation files to a sub-directory in the your home
directory
7. Copy your Notes id file to your home directory (/home/username/xxx.id)
8. Start Install of Notes Client
a. From Terminal window execute: wine d:\\clients\\w32intel\\setup.exe or wine f:\\subdirectory_name\\setup.exe
b. Follow normal setup for Notes Windows Client
Note: If you receive error messages about AddFolderIcon failed, you may ignore them. They are extraneous in
this case.
9.Configure Notes Client
a. From Terminal window execute: wine c:\\Lotus\\notes\\nlnotes.exe
b. When prompted for ID file look in f:\
Note: After completion of setup you will receive an error message about IE, click on OK to get passed it.
c. When setup complete, Edit Current Location Document
i. Click on File\Mobile\Edit Current Location
ii. Click On the Internet Browser tab
iii. Next to the Internet Browser field click on the down arrow
iv. Select Notes and click ok (Not Notes with Internet Explorer)
v. Click on Save and Close
d. Close and exit Notes
Step-By-Step Instructions For Installing Wine and Notes Win32 Client
10. Create a shortcut on your desktop to launch Notes:
a. GNOME:
i. Right click on blank space on desktop and click on New/Launcher
ii. Enter the following values:
Name: Notes
Comment: {Anything you like}
Command: wine "c:\\Lotus\\Notes\\nlnotes.exe"
Type: Application
Icon: {Whatever you like}
iii. Click on OK
iv. There is now a Notes program shortcut on your desktop. Double click it to start notes
b. KDE
i. Right click in blank space on desktop and click on New/Application
ii. Enter Notes.kdelnk and click on OK
iii. Click on the Execute Tab
iv. In the Execute field enter: wine c:\\Lotus\\Notes\\nlnotes.exe
v. Click on OK
vi. There is now a Notes program shortcut on your desktop. Double click it to start notes
11.Congratulations setup is complete.
12.Additional items left to you:
a. A.To make the fonts in the Notes GUI ( Graphical User Interface) more clear you may want to setup TrueType
Fonts
b. See the Winecentric Web page below for links on TrueType Fonts.
c. B.Create a "Shortcut" on your desktop to launch Notes.
Additional information can be found at:
Wine Headquarters:
www.winehq.com
Lotus Notes for GNU/Linux Resource Page at Winecentric:
www.winecentric.com
Step-By-Step Instructions For Installing Wine and Notes Win32 Client

China looks to replace Windows

zdnet.com reports
By Andrew Colley
ZDNet Australia
July 22, 2002, 7:05 AM PT

That a consortium of China's universities and commercial interests want to develop a Windows-like desktop operating system.

"The monopoly of foreign office software over the Chinese market will be broken," said Chinese officials announcing the move at a trade event in Beijing last week.

CyberSource CEO, Con Zymaris believes that an operating system based on GNU/Linux open source components and the Wine project would be the fastest and cheapest way for China to achieve its goal.

Wine is the Windows Application Programming Interface that allows GNU/Linux to run Windows binaries,
It is understood that China wants desktop functionality comparable to Windows 98.

"Anything not like GNU/Linux and Wine is a massive waste," said Zymaris. "There's no problem at all with just grabbing the whole code and embedding it in specific Chinese versions of GNU/Linux".
at no cost.

Microsoft Windows XP currently costs around US$300. The average yearly salary for a Chinese technology worker in 1998 was around $US1000,

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Start-up has locks for Secure Notebook

By Declan McCullagh
reports on zdnet.com

Amsterdam-based NAH6 plans to release much of its work as open-source software for noncommercial use.
the first product, called Secure Notebook, set for release next month.

It's a software application designed to appeal to business or government travelers who worry about losing their laptops but can't be bothered to encrypt each sensitive file on them.

Secure Notebook would be the first product to take the novel approach of running Microsoft Windows on top of Debian GNU/Linux, with the underlying GNU/Linux layer ensuring that all Windows files stored on a hard drive remain encrypted.

NAH6 won't market Secure Notebook itself. It plans to sell Secure Notebook, which requires at least a 1GHz processor and 512 MB of RAM, to laptop makers and resellers that target security-conscious customers. Noncommercial users will be able to download the Secure Notebook software at no cost, but they'll have to buy the necessary VMware application for about $300.

Secure Notebook and NAH6's three other planned offerings have one thing in common: They're designed to glue near-unbreakable encryption into a PC or handheld device while shielding users from the oft-befuddling underlying complexity.