News from Red Hat Software

["Robert G. Brown" <bob@xxxxxxx>]

This arrived a couple of hours ago from our friends at Red Hat...

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RHS Linux User				Issue #5
January 1998


The start of the new year finds Red Hat taking on several new projects.
Read on to find out more...

 o TELEPHONE SUPPORT NOW AVAILABLE

The progression of the Red Hat Linux OS continues. As the just-released 
Red Hat Linux 5.0, proves, with its new ease of use and smooth 
installation features, Red Hat Software is breaking into the 
consciousness of the commercial world.

To give our customers, from the beginner to the very advanced, the best 
service and technical advice available, Red Hat Software is now proud and 
excited to call Collective Technologies an official Red Hat Support 
Partner.

Effective immediately, Collective Technologies, one of the leading 
providers of systems management consulting, will offer telephone support 
for Red Hat Linux on the Intel and Alpha platforms. You can contact the 
AnswerDesk by phone at
512-343-8888 or by fax at 512-346-6444, or by email at 
ci-mgr@colltech.com.
Their web address is http://www.colltech.com/answerdesk. An 800 number 
should be coming soon!

 o RHAD LABS
Red Hat Software, Inc. announces the opening of new and separate
division.   Called Red Hat Advanced Development Labs, or RHAD Labs,
this division will act as an independent development group focusing on
the accessibility and usability of free software, such as Linux.

According to Marc Ewing, one of the founders of the RHAD Labs, the
creation of this "usability-specific" development team is a necessity.
"The progress made by the technical and system development of Linux has
been so great that the market for Linux is expanding to nearly its full
potential," said Ewing. "Yet the desktop environment for Linux is one
of the greatest barriers for new users."

RHAD Labs is designed  to address this problem. By  working on such 
desktop-related issues as window manager configuration and control, user 
configuration, file manipulation, and Internet navigation,  RHAD Labs 
hopes to give free software credibility and accessibility.

Currently RHAD Labs founders Marc Ewing, Michael Fulbright, and Carsten
Haitzler are working in conjunction with members of the GNOME Project
(GNU Network Object Model Environment) to develop a user-friendly
desktop based on free software.   This, hopes Ewing, will "create an
environment that will convince new and larger audiences that Linux is a
viable operating system while also creating an environment that
continues to satisfy the free software community."

For more information see http://www.gnome.org and http://www.labs.redhat.c
om.
 
 o RED HAT SINKS TITANIC

Digital Domain, a movie post-production company based in LA, used Red Hat 
Linux for Alpha to render scenes for the movie "Titanic." A network of 
200 Alpha-based machines was used to speed up rendering times!

Get the whole story from The Linux Journal at http://www.ssc.com/lj/issue4
6/2494.html

 o RED HAT GOES ON TOUR!

Red Hat will be touring the country in the next few months. 
We've had great meetings with Linux user groups in Toronto on January 15, 
Hamilton on the 16th, Ottawa on the 17th, and Montreal on the 19th. 
Thanks to everyone who braved January weather to attend those meetings. 
Attendance was remarkable at all meetings. It was fun and of great 
benefit to us to have the opportunity to learn about so many fascinating 
uses of Linux.
Our next stop(s) is the New England area. Bright-eyed and ice-encrusted 
from their road tour of Canada, those wacky adventurers from Red Hat 
Software are at it again.
Here's a brief run-down of our Red Hat and warm mittens tour of the 
Northeast:

On January 27, we plan to meet with some local press in Massachusetts
and then glide into Connecticut for the Connecticut Free Unix group
meeting in Cheshire, CT at 104 Main St. (Mary Baldwin Conference Room
of the Cheshire Public Library) from 5:30-7 PM. 

January 28th finds us sledding from Connecticut to New Hampshire to
visit with John 'maddog' Hall, the famous Linux guru.  After that, we
all tunnel over  to the Greater New Hampshire LUG (GNHLUG) on the UNH
campus in Durham, NH at 7 PM.

Then on the 29th,  we head back to Massachusetts for an 11 AM meeting
at  Softpro Books (112 Burlington Mall Rd.) in Burlington (for details
call 617-273-2917).  After that, we spend the rest of the day visiting
various hardware vendors, as well as BYTE magazine and the folks at
MIT.  At 7 PM, we put on our snowshoes and slide on over to the Boston
LUG at MIT.
 
The 30th then brings us to Cambridge and MicroCenter (727 Memorial Dr.,
617-234-6400) where we give in-store demos of Red Hat Linux from 12-2
PM.  The Cambridge fun continues at Quantum Books (4 Cambridge
Center,617-494-5042) where we host a Q & A session from 3-5 PM.
We close out our tour with some Saturday meetings with industry
analysts, and we hope that you can stop by any of these locations during 
the week to see us in action.


Finally, just wanted to let everyone know that the Linux Expo page has 
now been updated with all the latest details on the show. Check it out 
at: http://www.linuxexpo.org Hope to see you all there!

If you have any questions or ideas for Red Hat's User Group program, let 
me know! I can be reached by phone at 800-454-5502 x242 or by email.

Talk to you next month!

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