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website on the move
Posted By Ken Guest - 13:35, 31 January 2001
Edited by Ken Guest - 13:35, 31 January 2001
www.linux.ie will be moving to a nice shiny server on Sunday, if you notice any odd behaviour after then please let the webmaster know so things can be sorted out in a timely fashion.

New Vendors Page - Software
Posted By Ken Guest - 18:17, 29 January 2001
Edited by Ken Guest - 18:17, 29 January 2001
Adam Beecher has kindly seeded a Distribution and Software Vendors page.

Updates
Posted By Ken Guest - 21:55, 27 January 2001
Edited by Ken Guest - 21:55, 27 January 2001
The Vendors section has been brought back into the fold and some broken links fixed.

Alan Cox in Wired!
Posted By Donncha O'Caoimh - 13:50, 27 January 2001
Edited by Ken Guest - 13:50, 27 January 2001
Alan Cox, "second in command of the Linux Kernel", and all-round smart guy appears in this month's Wired magazine. Adam Beecher scanned in a picture of Alan from the magazine and made it available for the rest of us!

LVM again
Posted By Donncha O'Caoimh - 13:55, 26 January 2001
Edited by Ken Guest - 13:55, 26 January 2001
Just after we mentioned LVM, Paul posted another mail correcting himself on a version number typo, and today a new version of LVM appeared on Freshmeat

Snapshot review of LVM
Posted By Donncha O'Caoimh - 12:58, 25 January 2001
Edited by Ken Guest - 12:58, 25 January 2001
Paul Jakma recently posted a good snapshot review of LVM, to the ilug mailing list.

Linux From Scratch
Posted By Donncha O'Caoimh - 13:01, 23 January 2001
Edited by Ken Guest - 13:01, 23 January 2001
The hints page on The Linux From Scratch site has some useful info on all sorts of stuff, ie installing gnome, grub, device files etc. Thanks to Eoin Kelly for the link.

New Tutorial
Posted By Ken Guest - 22:21, 19 January 2001
Edited by Ken Guest - 22:21, 19 January 2001
Securing DNS with Transaction Signatures by James Raftery.

Updated Pages
Posted By Ken Guest - 17:23, 19 January 2001
Edited by Ken Guest - 17:23, 19 January 2001

ILUG FAQ
Updated with a link to some recommended reading, regarding to writing for linux.ie
The broken links off Kevin Lyda's Linuxpro 5.4 Install Review have been repaired. Those links were broken since the move over to the new design. Ahem. Sorry 'bout that.

Linux.ie really is your site!
Posted By Ken Guest - 13:13, 19 January 2001
Edited by Ken Guest - 13:13, 19 January 2001
Recently some questions were posed by people volunteering to write for Linux.ie. This message seems to answer them rather well and is recommended reading if you are interested in writing for Linux.ie

Updated Pages
Posted By Ken Guest - 20:30, 5 January 2001
Edited by Ken Guest - 20:30, 5 January 2001
The downloads section has been updated.

Updated Pages - Search Facility
Posted By Donncha O'Caoimh - 19:32, 3 January 2001
Edited by Ken Guest - 19:32, 3 January 2001
The search facility has been fixed, and indexing is done every night.

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