Lineox Newsletter 1
28. May 2004

Contents

- Foreword
- Lineox Enterperise Linux 3.0 program package update service prices
  announced
- Lineox site has new pages
- Update 2 released
- Always Current now 4 CD set
- Always Current CD-R disks are now sold
- Lineox Desktop "announced"

Foreword

Hello and welcome to the first Lineox Newsletter. We have not yet
decided how often we should make this newsletter, but now there have
been so much changes and new content in the Lineox site released this
month that we had to write about them. We expect to release new
newsletters from two to six times a year. 

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Lineox Enterperise Linux 3.0 program package update service prices
==================================================================
announced
=========

The update service can still be used for free, but it will become fee
based during autumn this year. The annual fee for single systems is 15
Euros, enterprise license with rsync access to set up a local mirror
starts from 3 Euros per system with minimum of 50 systems. See the
complete price list at: http://www.lineox.com/buysupport.php


Lineox site has new pages
=========================

There are several new pages and perhaps the most interesting ones are
listed on the page http://www.lineox.com/howto.php See for example
the apt-get resource page http://www.lineox.com/apt-get.php


Update 2 released
=================

Red Hat released a second large batch of updates for RHEL 3.0 12. May
and Lineox had them compiled and available 15. May. In the future
Lineox intends to increase compilation speed by utilizing a cluster of
several computers to do the job. We aim to be able to have even
quarterly big updates ready within 24 hours after general availability
from Red Hat.


Always Current now 4 CD set
===========================

OpenOffice.org 1.1.0 update had grown considerably from the original
version and three CD's could no longer hold all the packages. Also the
DVD image grew over 2 GB limit and now it is split to three pieces
because Apache can't handle over 2 GB files.


Always Current CD-R disks are now sold
======================================

CD-R set or DVD-R is 17.90 Euros. See http://www.lineox.com/buy.php


Lineox Desktop "announced"
==========================

This was more of a publicity stunt, but so was Red Hat's Red Hat
Desktop announcement also. See what The Inquirer wrote about it:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=15833 
Our "announcement" page has however some useful links, for example to
Linux versions of Acrobat Reader, Flash Plugin, Real Player, and Java
versions from both IBM and BEA. See
http://www.lineox.com/lel3desktop.php


Raimo Koski
rk@raimokoski.com