Linux: Referenze

Referenze sulla stabilita':
IBM's endorsement of Linux's quality and stability: http://www.software.ibm.com/data/db2/linux
Diagnostics page for Mac freezes and crashes: http://www2.northstar.k12.ak.us/help/mactips.html
Windows 95 and 98 may crash every 49.7 days -- news item:
http://news.com/News/Item/0,4,33117,00.html
Windows NT's "blue screen of death" -- reasons:
http://www.webshopper.com/jhtml/templates/display_content.jhtml?id=129634

Referenze sulle performance:
Smart Reseller Online's webserver test in which Linux/Apache beats NT/IIS:
http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2196115,00.html
Smart Reseller Online's fileserver test in which Linux/Samba beats NT:
http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2196106,00.html
Microsoft touts the Mindcraft benchmark: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/dailynews/042199.htm
Microsoft spokesman admits that Linux machine in the Mindcraft benchmark was not well-tuned:
http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/enterprise/1999/9904221410.asp
Linux Weekly News finds flaws in the Mindcraft benchmark:
http://lwn.net/1999/features/MindCraft1.0.phtml
A commentary on Mindcraft's planned second series of benchmarks:
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/5424.html
The Halloween documents:
Halloween I: http://www.opensource.org/halloween1.html
Halloween II: http://www.opensource.org/halloween2.html

Referenze sugli standard:
POSIX and Unix 98: http://lwn.net/lwn/980611/standardseditorial.html
Linux Standard Base home page: http://www.linuxbase.org
Interesting viewpoints on Linux and standards compliance: http://lwn.net/lwn/980618/ianresp1.html,
http://lwn.net/lwn/980618/Editorial.html

Referenze hardware:
HP, the Linux PA-RISC port and the Puffin Group: http://www.hp.com/pressrel/mar99/01mar99e.htm
Sub-$600 PCs from Emachines: http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,35322,00.html?tag=st.cn.sr1.dir.
Cyrix reaches beyond the $299 PC:
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,34825,00.html?tag=st.cn.sr1.dir.
Linux on a set-top box: http://www.thestandard.net/articles/display/0,1449,4246,00.html?home.bf
Linux on 8-way Intel Pentium III Xeon SMP servers:
http://www.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=CnWWPWbKbytaXmtC&FQ
=Linux&SymHdl
Linux and Intel's Merced: http://www.crn.com/dailies/weekending030599/mar02dig09.asp
Cygnus GNUPro toolkit for Merced enables Linux to be compiled for that platform:
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/5434.html
Linux-USB project mirror: http://www.nv.org/linux/USB/snapshots.html
Linux Plug-and-Play project home page: http://www-jcr.lmh.ox.ac.uk/~pnp
Intel's UDI and the Linux community: http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/1998/37/ns-5501.html
Linux runs an MP3 music player for cars: http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/18236.html
Linux hardware compatibility list: http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html

Referenze sull'area Internet:
Apache webserver home page: http://www.apache.org
Enhydra application server home page: http://www.enhydra.com
Firewall configuration tool: http://rlz.ne.mediaone.net/linux/firewall
Firewall-building tool "Mason" licensed under GNU GPL: http://users.dhp.com/~whisper/mason
Squid home page: http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid
Sendmail home page: http://www.sendmail.org
FreeS/WAN news item: http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?990421.icfreeswan.htm
FreeS/WAN home page: http://www.xs4all.nl/~freeswan
Mailman mailing list manager: http://www.list.org
Python home page: http://www.python.org
Linux-based routers: http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/column/0,4712,381687,00.html
Network Concierge, a Linux-based thin server: http://www.nc4u.com/linux.htm
Cobalt Networks, Inc. Linux-based thin servers: http://www.cobaltmicro.com
Corel Corp.'s Netwinder thin server running Linux: http://www.corelcomputer.com
IBM's "WebSphere" E-commerce software runs on the Apache webserver:
http://www.software.ibm.com/webservers/appserv/awb.html
The Mozilla home page: http://www.mozilla.org
NeoPlanet embeds Gecko layout engine in 1.3 MB browser/portal:
http://www.neoplanet.com/press_OpenSource.html
Gecko as an embeddable ActiveX plug-in for Internet Explorer:
http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozilla.htm
The Java-Apache project: http://java.apache.org
James (Java-Apache Mail Enterprise Server) MailServlet page: http://java.apache.org/james/index.html
ServletCentral website for server-side Java: http://www.servletcentral.com
PHP (ASP-style HTML-embedded scripting language): http://www.php.net
OpenLDAP project home page: http://www.openldap.org
The Hungry Programmers' Japhar JVM: http://www.japhar.org
James Clark's free XML tools: http://www.jclark.com/xml

Referenze sull'interoperabilita' con altri sistemi:
Linux and Appletalk: http://www.idg.net/idg_frames/english/content.cgi?vc=docid_9-129189.html
Linux and IPX: http://pinkfloyd.student.okstate.edu/~arc/howto/IPX-HOWTO-1.html
Linux and SNA: http://linuxworld.com/linuxworld/expo/lw-wednesday-server.html,
http://www.linux-sna.org
Samba home page: http://au1.samba.org/samba/samba.html
Samba on SGI: http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,394079,00.html
Samba 2.0 release announcement: http://linuxtoday.com/stories/2298.html
High-end Unix servers from SGI come bundled with Samba:
http://www.sgi.com/newsroom/press_releases/1998/december/samba.html
Samba - A license to kill Windows NT?: http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/issue/0,4537,396321,00.html
WINE project home page: http://www.winehq.com
Corel's support to the WINE project: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,380599,00.html
Brokat's website: http://www.brokat.de
Apache home page: http://www.apache.org
SSLeay home page: http://www.psy.uq.oz.au/~ftp/Crypto
SSLeay download page: ftp://ftp.pca.dfn.de/pub/tools/net/ssleay
mod_ssl download page: http://www.engelschall.com/sw/mod_ssl/distrib
(Naming convention: "mod_ssl-2.2.8-1.3.6.tar.gz" means this is the patch for SSLeay version 2.2.8 and
Apache version 1.3.6)
Netscape's 40-bit SSL hack: http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~bradley/publish/SSLP/chapter4.html#4.4.3
PGP download page: http://meryl.csd.uu.se/~d95mno/PGP.html
GPG home page: http://www.d.shuttle.de/isil/gnupg/gnupg.html
Cryptix home page: http://www.cryptix.org
FreeS/WAN news item: http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?990421.icfreeswan.htm
FreeS/WAN home page: http://www.xs4all.nl/~freeswan
Database vendors Oracle, Sybase, Informix, IBM support Linux:
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,30360,00.html
Hardware vendors HP, SGI, Compaq, Dell and IBM support Linux:
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,31511,00.html
Linux on IBM's RS/6000 and Netfinity servers:
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/feb1999/nf90222a.htm
Linux su IBM S/390 - http://www.vnunet.com/News/103607
Linux on Sun's 64-bit UltraSparc servers: http://www.internetwk.com/news1298/news120898-6.htm
Big guns support Linux: http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,1014026,00.html
Compaq expects Linux to popularise 64-bit Alpha chips:
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,34119,00.html?tag=st.cn.sr1.dir.

Referenze high-tech:
Linux Beowulf cluster-based supercomputers:
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/internet/docs/350387l.htm
IBM's Linux-based supercomputer:
http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?99039.ecsuperlinux.htm
SGI to release technologies: http://www.it.fairfax.com.au/990309/openline1.html
SGI donates OpenVault:
http://www.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=CnYpKWbWbu0znmduZ&FQ=open-source
SCO grasping at Linux straw: http://www.sunworld.com/swol-03-1999/swol-03-sco.html
SCO's CEO on Linux: http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/990426A08E
Project Monterey: http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1998-10/lw-10-monterey.html
Cygnus GNUPro toolkit for Merced enables Linux to be compiled for that platform:
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/5434.html

Referenze sul supporto:
Nonostante la sua giovane età Linux è considerato dai più importanti IT vendor un sistema ormai maturo:
IBM (http://www-4.ibm.com/software/is/mp/linux/support.html ),
HP (http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,35392,00.html),
SGI (http://www.sgi.com/newsroom/press_releases/1999/january/servers.html),
DELL (http://www.dell.com/us/en/hied/topics/vectors_1999-linux.htm),
RedHat (http://www.redhat.com/support/services/enterprise.html),
SuSe (http://www.suse.com/)

senza dimenticare le terze parti quali Linuxcare (http://www.linuxcare.com/prof-svcs/custom-solution.epl), VaLinux (http://www.valinux.com/products/service_support/tlc.html), tutti ormai offrono supporto 24/7.

IBM in particolare segue da oltre un anno la filosofia opensource adottando, ad esempio, Apache come proprio web server di riferimento per tutte le sue piattaforme, rilasciando i sorgenti del proprio JFS nonché portando Linux su S/390 (per ulteriori dettagli: http://www10.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/?loc=113,t=g,p=OS001)

Referenze su sviluppo Java e CORBA:
Java to run on Linux: http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,33086,00.html
Java not to be an ISO standard: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,1014537,00.html
Java-Linux port test status: http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/jck-status.html
The Netbeans IDE (free for non-commercial use): http://www.netbeans.com
Java-Linux project home page: http://www.blackdown.org
Enhydra application server home page: http://www.enhydra.com
Transvirtual's Kaffe JVM: http://www.transvirtual.com
The Hungry Programmers' Japhar JVM: http://www.japhar.org/index.html
Project Mauve: http://www4.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2229207,00.html
XML and Java tools downloadable at IBM's Alphaworks site: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com
James Clark's free XML tools: http://www.jclark.com/xml
ORBit, a free, GPL-ed CORBA ORB which is part of Gnome:
http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/devel/orbit.html
OmniORB, a free, GPL-ed CORBA ORB from Olivetti/Oracle labs (now AT&T):
http://www.uk.research.att.com/omniORB

Referenze sull'Open Source:
The Cathedral and the Bazaar (the article that influenced Netscape's decision to release the source code for Communicator): http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar.html
Homesteading the Noosphere (an article that tries to explain the hacker "gift culture"):
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/homesteading/homesteading.html
How to be a hacker (another article that provides insights into the workings of Open Source):
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
Opensource Initiative: http:www/opensource.org