2003 September

It’s a holiday in both the US and Canada, so I’m declaring it
nepotism weekend. My husband released an open source package that
integrates with mail servers to provide spam and virus quarantine
services. It’s pretty cool; in four days he’s already got two ISPs
trying it out. If you run your own mail server, check out http://www.renaissoft.com/projects/maia.

Getting your email to work on the road
This week, I thought I’d introduce you to DRAC (Dynamic Relay
Authorization Control), which you can find at http://mail.cc.umanitoba.ca/drac/. With DRAC, you can handle the needs of your SMTP
users on the fly while they’re traveling. Rather than having to
manually adjust your individual relaying settings, DRAC will
authorize SMTP relaying [...]

Compiling Software from Source, Part X

So now I finally have gnome-desktop compiled and installed. That
doesn’t mean that I have a fully working GUI, however. There’s the
panel, themes, utilities… all I have to do is look through my
GNOME source directory to see that not even half of the files I
downloaded are decompressed yet. Lots more work [...]

Choosing a Distribution, Part VI - Lindows

Lindows is another distribution with a dedicated following, though
it’s easy to not be aware of this if you hang in the mainstream
Linux community. Billed as “a new operating system that delivers
the power, stability and cost-savings of Linux® with the ease
of windows,” Lindows has been reviewed through the use of
journalists’ [...]

Last week I mentioned that I was working on a SCO-fighting media
kit. It’s up now, at http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3702… also, be sure to read the responses -
folks have pointed out some other interesting links as well.
This week heralds the return of the distribution review series.
I’ll do Lindows this week, Xandros next week (if I receive [...]