Linux Gram articles from June 2001

Linux Gram archives from June 2001

Ah-Ha, See, OSF II.(Open Source Development Lab)(Editorial)
June 4, 2001... We have always considered the so-called Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) to be nothing more than a reprise of the old Open Software Foundation, whose object - no matter how inglorious the result - was to build a standard enterprise operating...

Microsoft Toys with Free.(plans to give away Windows CE Embedded, N 4.0 Embedded)(to developers)(Company Business and Marketing)
June 4, 2001... Microsoft is gonna literally give away thousands of WinCE and NT 4.0 embedded (NTe) run-time licenses to start-ups under a program that lowers the entry cost of embedded Windows to the mythical zero cost of Linux. The deal includes copies...

Lone Aussie Programmer Struggles To Put C# on Linux.(Southern Storm Software Pty Ltd.)(Company Business and Marketing)
June 4, 2001... Microsoft has said, though, God knows, not often, suggesting that it's just paying lip service to the idea, that in its search for ubiquity, the C Sharp programming language that underlies its .NET scheme should go on other, non-Microsoft...

Apache Hacked.(hackers break into VA Linux SourceForge site)(Product Information)
June 4, 2001... Hackers have broken into that temple of open source, VA Linux' SourceForge site, and stolen the keys to the holy of holies, the Apache Software Foundation's source code repository. Apache leaders think they discovered the breach quickly...

Itanium Rolls.(Intel announces 64-bit chip is ready)(Product Announcement)
June 4, 2001... We're pretty sure we heard the faint strains of the Hallelujah Chorus when we opened the file containing Intel's announcement that Itanium, its first 64-bit chip, over seven years in the making at an estimated cost somewhere between $1 billion...

SuSE Sets June Ship Date for 64-Bit Linux.(SuSE Linux 7.2 for Itanium)(Product Announcement)
June 4, 2001... SuSE has set a June 15 ship date for SuSE Linux 7.2, a new cut of its desktop distribution, and says it will be followed five days later by a 64-bit version of SuSE 7.2 for the Itanium. SuSE brags that its June 20 release date will give it...

IBM Shows Off for Itanium.(uses 160 Itanium-based workstations in supercluster for)(NCSA supercomputer at University of Illinois)(Product Information)
June 4, 2001... IBM wanted something hot for the Itanium launch so it trotted out a Linux supercluster of 160 of its Itanium-based IntelliStation workstations that it says is capable of a trillion calculations a second. The beast is going into the...

Borland Slashes Desktop Kylix Prices.(RAD software for Linux)(Product Information)
June 4, 2001... Disappointed with the sales of the quixotic desktop edition of its Kylix rapid application development (RAD) kit for Linux, Borland has slashed its price from $999 to $199 - some 80% - for at least the next three months. Officially the...

Sharp Picks Lineo for PDA.(next-generation Zaurus)(Product Information)
June 4, 2001... Sharp has tapped Lineo's Embedix OS for the next version of its Zaurus PDA. Lineo is calling it a "groundbreaking design win." Embedix was apparently picked because it supports StrongARM and ARM processors and broad features. The fact that...

British Magazine Trashes Microsoft & Blair.(LinuxUser criticizes Tony Blair, Microsoft for making)(government Web services accessible only to Microsoft)(browser)(Government Activity)
June 4, 2001... In an article trashing both Microsoft and the British government, "LinuxUser," a UK publication, claims that the government web access system that Microsoft built works right only with the Internet Explorer browser running on Windows. The...

Opera Sees Revenues.(through deals with IBM and Symbian to offer browser)(on wireless devices)(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
June 4, 2001... At a time when browser revenues have all but disappeared in the industry, Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner confirmed on Wednesday that the company would be getting revenues from both the marquee deals - the one with IBM and another with Symbian -...

Free Software Leader Slams Microsoft.(Richard Stallman)(Company Operations)
June 4, 2001... The father of free software Richard Stallman took his turn this week trying to slap back Microsoft's ears in a two-hour harangue reminiscent of a Politburo speech. He was on the same business school stage that Microsoft senior VP Craig...

IBM Talks Up WebSphere App Server Version 4.(new product can handle twice as many transactions as competing BEA WebLogic Server)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 4, 2001... IBM is bragging that its upcoming WebSphere Application Server 4 can handle twice the transactions as BEA WebLogic Server for the same cost, according to a new open benchmark. The new WebSphere, due June 30, will interoperate with a slew of...

Scali Clusters Itanium.(Norwegian firm releases communication libraries)(Brief Article)
June 4, 2001... Norwegian Linux cluster house Scali Systems has released a set of communication libraries to build Itanium-based clusters that it says are the hottest it's ever seen. The new library is part of Scali's management software and tools kit...

Corel Lives in Hope.(sale of Linux unit)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 4, 2001... We snuck past Corel's PR watchdogs and got a message through to CEO Derek Burney asking him what the heck was going on with the sale of the company's Linux unit. The answer came back, "The ground keeps shifting as we roll towards...

Cisco Skunkworks Readies Linux-based IP SAN Scheme.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 4, 2001... Ah, another of those tantalizing stealth-mode start-ups has emerged but this time the outfit, called Andiamo Systems, appears to be a front for Cisco to hide a skunkworks crafting Linux-based widgetry for those newfangled IP-based storage...

Candle's CCC To Support Linux.(Candle Command Center IT management software)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 4, 2001... Candle Corporation is looking at adding Linux support to its Candle Command Center (CCC), the software that manages IT resources running across distributed, database and ERP environments including mainframes. Candle won't discuss the details...

Where Are They Now?(Bonnie Crater and Nimish Mehta)(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
June 4, 2001... The Oracle brotherhood has come to the rescue of Bonnie Crater, the CEO of the failed open source e-commerce applications experiment Zelerate. Crater, who used to work at Oracle and then at Oracle offshoot NCI, has gone to PurpleYogi as chief...

FSM Offers "JumpStart" RTLinux Training.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 4, 2001... Finite State Machine Labs (FSMLabs) has begun offering two-day "JumpStart" training courses in its RTLinux and MiniRTLinux embedded Linux operating systems. FSM is offering to send its experts to companies. It will tailor the classes to the...

Lineo Sets up Shop in Singapore.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 4, 2001... Lineo opened an office in Singapore recently, expanding its presence in Asia. It's got a handful of people there in sales. Singapore has been eyeing embedded Linux given the considerable design and development going on locally in consumer...

Caldera Bites Red Hat.(OpenLinux platform replaces Red Hat servers)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 4, 2001... Caldera gloats that i Mobile Computing (iMC), supposedly a leading Korean ISP, has replaced hundreds of Red Hat servers with its OpenLinux platform. Caldera claims that iMC has deployed 220 OpenLinux servers to date and will implement an...

Yellow Dog's No Longer a Pup.(Terra Soft Solutions Yellow Dog Linux 2.0)(Product Announcement)
June 4, 2001... Terra Soft Solutions has launched Yellow Dog Linux 2.0, its Linux for the PowerPC, claiming the thing's no longer a pup. The Loveland, Colorado outfit is flaunting its growing up status with a new graphics installer, KDE 2.1 and 900...

Pogo Debuts New Linux Workstation.(Pogo Linux Pogo Verona)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 4, 2001... Pogo Linux has launched a new $999 workstation - the Pogo Verona - powered by Intel's new Pentium 4 processor. Standard specs include a 1.5GHz processor, 128MB of RDRAM, a 30GB 7200 RPM hard drive, a 32MB video card, a 10/100 Ethernet card, a...

IMA Almost Ready with Linux Cut of Mail Gateway.(International Messaging Associates)(Product Development)(Brief Article)
June 4, 2001... Hong Kong-based International Messaging Associates (IMA) has gone into its eighteenth, and it hopes final, beta of a new cut of its Internet Exchange Messaging Server (IEMA) 5. IEMA 5 is the first version of the company's mail gateway...

Linux Distributions Reproduce Like Bunnies.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 4, 2001... As if there weren't enough Linux distributions out there already, reports come of another one called Lanthan Linux from Germany. Currently, version 2 of Lanthan Linux, which installs besides a Windows 95/98/ME OS, is shipping. Users get the...

Caldera Drops Anchor in Japan.(Caldera KK)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 4, 2001... Caldera has set up a Japanese subsidiary with investment support from Fujitsu and Hitachi. Caldera is the majority owner of Caldera KK, with an 80% stake. Hitachi and Fujitsu hold 10% each. Caldera plans to set up local offices to flog...

Sanchez Readies Linux Beta of Finance App, Database.(Sanchez Computer Associates Profile/Anyware banking and brokerage transaction processing application and GT.M database engine)(Product Development)(Brief Article)
June 4, 2001... Financial services ISV Sanchez Computer Associates has readied its Profile/Anyware banking and brokerage transaction processing application and GT.M database engine for beta testing on IBM's zSeries 900 mainframes running Linux. The Malvern,...

Hardened Linux To Get Harder.(WireX and Conterpane Internet Security pact)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 4, 2001... Appliance server software house WireX and security monitoring specialist Counterpane Internet Security have signed a three-year pact for Counterpane to help WireX improve the security of Immunix OS 7. Immunix, which is what WireX builds its...

Sendmail Readies Mainframe Linux Mail Server.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 4, 2001... Sendmail has launched an early support program for its flagship Sendmail mail server running on IBM mainframe Linux. The early support program, which ends when Sendmail for mainframe Linux is released sometime in Q3, includes free set-up...

Apache Management GUI Betas.(Suitware Web Manager)(Product Development)(Brief Article)
June 4, 2001... Suitware Inc has gone to beta with Web Manager, a GUI to administer the Apache web server that it says is easy enough for an Apache neophyte to use. Web Manager runs on Linux on x86 and uses a file manager-like interface to map a web site. It...

New Dataquest Findings Shrink Linux Market Share.(Product Information)
June 11, 2001... Linux' server market share is less than half the 20-odd points that operations like IDC have claimed, according to a new study by Dataquest. Dataquest says that during the third quarter last year Linux servers accounted for only 8.6% of...

SGI Bets the Farm on Itanium.(will build future workstations around Intel 64-bit chip)(Product Information)
June 11, 2001... Years late and relatively underpowered, the Itanium chip is supposedly only a science project at this point and vendors are supposedly only running off a few propitiatory Itanium boxes to appease Intel. And then there's SGI, the...

Heavy Hitters Back Linux in Set-tops To Hobble M'soft.(Sun, Motorola, Liberate, TiVO, Broadcom, Excite@Home,)(Lineo, MontaVisa)(Technology Information)
June 11, 2001... A healthy cross-section of the cable, satellite and telco population, some 20-odd companies, have allied in the name of pushing standards-based Linux into digital set-tops. The diverse group, which at press time included Sun, Motorola,...

Intel Says Things Are Normal.(mid-quarter report)(Company Financial Information)
June 11, 2001... Intel organized one of those mid-quarter updates for Wall Street after the market closed Thursday, an event lots of people were sweating, and CFO Andy Bryant said things are, well, things are "normal." Normal, that is, "at a down level." ...

Lambert Out at Dell.(server chief Mike Lambert resigns)(Company Operations)
June 11, 2001... Server supremo Mike Lambert is leaving Dell. We've been sitting this particular deathwatch for months now. Lambert was known to be restless and somewhat frustrated by Dell's pinchpenny ways plus he's coming up on his magic fifth anniversary...

Dell Linux Chief Bounced.(Rick Hoffman forced to resign amid restructuring)(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
June 11, 2001... Rick Hoffman, the Dell exec who was general manager of its Linux initiative, has bitten the bullet, his job restructured out of existence as part of Dell's recent cutbacks. Hoffman was responsible for both Linux marketing and development. Dell...

Microsoft To Debate Red Hat on Open Source.(Craig Mundie of Microsoft to hold public debate with Red Hat)(CTO Michael Tiemann)(Industry Trend or Event)
June 11, 2001... Oh, goody, hand-to-hand combat. How yummy. Really, it's a shame those prissy Christians ever closed down the old Coliseum. Anyway, Microsoft and the open source people are going to hang up their slingshots long enough to send in their...

Embedded Debian Project on Life Support.(Technology Information)
June 11, 2001... The year-old Embedded Debian Project, which was supposed to result in the "natural choice" for embedded Linux developers, is on life support. The chief nerd of Cambridge, UK-based embedded Linux consulting house Aleph One, a keen supporter...

Oh, Look, a Java Operating System.(SavaJe J2SE product for PDAs)(Company Business and Marketing)
June 11, 2001... SavaJe has taken the wraps off the tiny Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) operating system that it's been secretly developing for PDAs, appliances, set-tops and similar gismos. SavaJe CEO George Grey, who left a secure job as CEO of Psion Inc...

LSB Told "The Check Is in the Mail".(Linux Standards Base effort)(Technology Information)(Brief Article)
June 11, 2001... The majors are starting to pay more than lip service - and the loan of some engineering talent - to the Linux Standard Base effort. IBM, HP, Compaq and Dell have actually pledged to become Platinum sponsors, which means kicking in $200,000...

Behind Every Cloud...There's Another Cloud.(Caldera posts poor results)(Company Financial Information)
June 11, 2001... Caldera posted its last quarter as a standalone entity on Wednesday and the results were pitiful. For its second quarter ended April 30, it did $1.6 million in revenues and lost $11.7 million net, or 29 cents a share, which is roughly $2...

Caldera Linux for Itanium Now Due in Late Q3.(Caldera OpenLinux Server for new 64-bit processor)(Product Development)
June 11, 2001... Caldera on Thursday said that it won't have its promised Itanium version of OpenLinux Server ready until sometime near the end of the third quarter. Meantime it has posted a "fully functional snapshot." So far only SuSE has set a firm...

Carly Says Bad Is Getting Worse.(HP CEO Carly Fiorina)(Company Financial Information)
June 11, 2001... HP CEO Carly Fiorina says the economic slowdown has gone global and has spread to Asia and Latin America. It's even hitting China for the first time. The deterioration is impacting all of HP's product lines. Fiorina said HP now thinks...

Atipa Toys with Stocking Beowulf Clusters.(hardware distributor)
June 11, 2001... Atipa Technologies Division, the hardware assets that Atipa Linux Solutions sold off to Microtech Computers a couple of months ago to get out of the box business, claims that life has turned rosy since it spun off, and laying it down to...

MandrakeSoft Debuts Firewall.(Single Network Firewall 7.2 hardware/software system)(Product Announcement)
June 11, 2001... MandrakeSoft unveiled its strategy for securing individual users, SOHO and small and medium businesses by launching its Single Network Firewall 7.2 product. The firewall, which runs on a dedicated appliance, is supposed to be the first in...

Russians Fiddle with PlayStation Linux.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 11, 2001... An obscure Czechoslovakian company called Blokman Trading sro, apparently representing a development staff in Moscow operating under the company name Nuges, has posted an alpha version of the Linux 2.4 kernel for the old Sony PlayStation (PS/1)...

AMD To Chip Away at Intel Server Dominance.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 11, 2001... This story is largely unchanged since it ran on Tuesday. AMD stepped off into one- and two-way servers and workstations for the first time Tuesday up against a rival that has had the space to itself for the last seven years. Intel's...

Evolocity Works on Athlon MP.(Linux NetworX turnkey cluster system)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 11, 2001... Linux NetworX says it's got its Evolocity cluster system up on AMD's new Athlon MP chip. The Salt Lake City, Utah company says it even has an order from a customer for an Athlon MP-based Evolocity cluster from online gaming software...

IBM Streamlines Linux Offerings for Telcos.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 11, 2001... IBM is taking a new tack with the Linux offerings it's pushing out to the struggling telecom service provider market and packaging a suite of customizable hardware, storage, middleware and services. It's also offering third-party software...

Kindred Spirits Join Forces.(Redmond Linux, deepLinux)(Company Business and Marketing)
June 11, 2001... Two small Linux companies, both with incomplete products, no funding, only a few part-time employees and hardly any revenues, are throwing in their lot together. Redmond Linux, which has been working on the madness of a Linux for the...

Where We Come from They Hang Rustlers.(SmoothWall)(Company Business and Marketing)
June 11, 2001... SmoothWall, the very young UK OS start-up whose widgetry turns a PC or a server into a firewall router - a popular enough notion for SmoothWall, which is really Caveonet Ltd, to be able to claim that its stuff is on 433,000 servers in 26...

Pricking the Linux Balloon.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 18, 2001... Hmmm. It seems that IDC - the outfit that gave us those controversial but widely accepted and now challenged Linux-owns-20-something-percent- of-the-server-market numbers - has another set of numbers that gets a lot less play and are in...

Linux Kernel Upgrade in Process.(Linux 2.4.6)(Product Development)(Brief Article)
June 18, 2001... The latest bundle of bug fixes and feature upgrades for the Linux 2.4.x kernel is making its way through the testing process. The third test version of the prospective Linux 2.4.6 was posted Wednesday. There's no telling how many...

Mozilla 9.1 Beta Arrives; Proprietary Netscape Work Halted.(Product Development)
June 18, 2001... The Mozilla open source browser folk finally got their 9.1 beta out the door just hours after our last edition went to press. The event marks the beginning of the end for the Netscape browser as a piece of custom-crafted proprietary code. ...

VA Made Pointless Acquisitions.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 18, 2001... It appears that right up until the bottom fell out of VA's world a few months ago, it was making quiet little acquisitions here and there to buttress its nascent service and support operation. According to the 10-K it filed with the SEC the...

Ebiz Lands Crucial $4 Million Credit Line.(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
June 18, 2001... Ebiz Enterprises has landed a $4 million line of critically needed credit. The way Ebiz tells it the new credit line from Finova Capital Corporation "gives us cash and working capital to provide even more products and services." Ebiz...

Red Hat's Admission.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 18, 2001... "We have not demonstrated the success of our open source business model, which gives our customers the right to freely copy and distribute our software. No other company has built a successful open source business." - One of Red Hat's...

AOL Toyed with Eazel over AOL PC.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 18, 2001... Hmmm. It seems from what we read in the New York Times that AOL briefly had a yen to create a cheap "AOL PC," apparently for Internet access using Linux as the operating system and among others had talks with poor little, dead little Eazel...

Ex-MandrakeSoft CTO Defects to Windows.(Jean-Loup Gailly joins Vision IQ)(Company Operations)
June 18, 2001... MandrakeSoft's former CTO Jean-Loup Gailly, sounding a bit shamefaced, has signed up as chief software architect of Vision IQ. A Windows house. The six-year-old French company makes computer vision and real-time video image processing...

Mission Critical Gets New CEO.(Mission Critical Linux, Robert Tumanic)(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
June 18, 2001... Massachusetts-based Mission Critical Linux, the IBM Global Services wannabe, has named its COO Robert Tumanic CEO. Tumanic's predecessor, Mission Critical co-founder Moiz Kohari becomes vice-chairman, a newly created position. Kohari will...

Strong Growth Forecast for Embedded Linux.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 18, 2001... Research number may be a little spooky right now, but a new study has found that Linux is making inroads into the highly fragmented embedded market. The census by Natick, Massachusetts-based Venture Development Corporation (VDC) projects...

Rabbit Stew, Anyone?(Securityfocus.com, Fluffy Bunny computer hacker)(Company Business and Marketing)
June 18, 2001... Securityfocus.com thinks it may have talked via Internet Relay Chat to the hacker who broke into SourceForge and the Apache.org servers last month. SecurityFocus says the hacker, who goes by the name "Fluffy Bunny," said he or she was...

Neoware Claims NeoLinux a Success.(Product Information)
June 18, 2001... On the first anniversary of the release of the NeoLinux embedded operating system, Neoware CEO Michael Kantrowitz exulted that the company was seeing lots of interest in Linux in the thin client space. "NeoLinux was a significant...

AOL Threatens Open Source Projects with Copyright Violation.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 25, 2001... By Stuart Zipper AOL attorneys are demanding that a slew of open source instant messaging projects hosted on SourceForge change their names. AOL says that it thinks that the use of the letters "AIM" in the projects' names will...

MontaVista Fires 20% of Staff.(Company Operations)
June 25, 2001... Embedded Linux house MontaVista Software, creator of the Hard Hat distribution, admitted it quietly fired nearly 20% of its staff a few weeks back. Other industry sources put the number closer to 25%. The layoffs are believed to have...

Microsoft Defines "Potentially Viral Software".(Company Business and Marketing)
June 25, 2001... Microsoft has come up with a legal definition of "potentially viral software" - and it includes anything released under licenses ranging from the GNU to Sun's Community Source License. The definition showed up in Microsoft's End User...

Takes One To Know One.(Bill Gates described the GNU General Public License as "Pac-Man- like")
June 25, 2001... Bill Gates described the GNU General Public License as "Pac-Man- like" in an interview with CNET at TechEd. Jim Allchin has called it "Un-American" and Steve Ballmer called it a "cancer."

LynuxWorks Cans IPO Plans.(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
June 25, 2001... LynuxWorks has finally gotten tired of sitting around waiting for the IPO market to get better. It's withdrawn the IPO papers it filed back in October, telling the SEC that it "has elected not to proceed with the offering due to general market...

IT Managers Still Fear Open Source.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
June 25, 2001... Development managers at companies with more than 2,000 employees are still spooked by open source and don't want the GPL forcing them to give away the secrets of their custom programs, according to a new survey by Evans Data Corporation. ...

Tragedy at Transmeta.(forecasting revenue decrease)(Company Business and Marketing)
June 25, 2001... Well, won't Intel be pleased. On the threshold of announcing its first 0.13-micron chip just like Intel, Transmeta said late Wednesday that Q2 sales haven't shaped up and would only amount to somewhere between $10.2 million and $11.2...

Sonicblue Slashes Staff in Profit Drive.(Company Operations)
June 25, 2001... Sonicblue, the old S3 graphics chip house now trying to elbow into digital music with its Linux-based Transmeta-powered ProGear Web Pad, has fired 30% of its 813-man staff in a drive to return to profitability. The company said it is going...

IBM Unleashes DB2 for Itanium.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 25, 2001... IBM has grabbed the honor of having the first released 64-bit database for Itanium - running on Linux. Blue has put a finished 64-bit version of DB2 into its Universal Developer's Edition of the database, with a deployment version of...

Red Hat Breaks Even.(Q1 2001)(Company Financial Information)
June 25, 2001... Despite all the economic gloom and doom, especially in Linux circles, Red Hat managed to break even like it said it was going to do in its first fiscal quarter ended May 31. It is the first Linux company to achieve the technical milestone...

Red Hat Celebrates GCC 3.0's Release.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 25, 2001... GCC 3.0, the GNU Compiler Collection, was finished and released on Monday. Red Hat breathed a corporate sigh of relief. Red Hat had used an early, flaky development-stage GCC 2.96 in Red Hat 7.0. The result was C++ ABI incompatibility with...

Compaq Makes Play for Sun Base with Linux.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 25, 2001... Compaq is close to finishing a piece of software it's been developing secretly to make it easier for Solaris developers to port their applications to Linux. It's going to open source the stuff. The move is a play to use Linux to hijack Sun...

Compaq Offers Professional Certification in Linux.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 25, 2001... Hardware Compaq is now the first hardware vendor to set up its own Linux certification program. The Compaq certificate is a new "second-level" credential in Compaq's Accredited Certification Program that covers planning, deployment,...

Trustix & IBM Debut Ready-To-Go Linux Infrastructure.(GoldBox package of products)(Company Business and Marketing)
June 25, 2001... Norwegian Linux house Trustix has gotten IBM to join it in launching GoldBox, basically a ready-to-go Linux IT infrastructure for small and mid-sized businesses. GoldBox has been introduced in Norway and Denmark and is scheduled to launch...

Microsoft is in a BIND over FreeBSD.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 25, 2001... Microsoft has egg on its face since it was discovered it's still using FreeBSD for part of its free Hotmail service. It's using it to prevent the denial of service attacks that took down the main Microsoft site earlier this year. It's...

Avant! Readies Linux System-on-a-Chip Design Kit.(Product Development)(Brief Article)
June 25, 2001... Avant! Corporation is doing Linux ports of its system-on-a-chip (SoC) design software family. Avant!, which has already ported various pieces of its software to Linux, said it's responding to "customer input." Linux will provide...

Market Responds to Linux Thin Client.(Visara 1883 Network Computing Terminal)(Product Information)(Brief Article)
June 25, 2001... Visara, the erstwhile Memorex Telex, says it's seeing a good deal of market interest in its new 1883 Network Computing Terminal, one of two Linux thin clients the company introduced in March. The Raleigh, North Carolina concern says it's...

Pervasive Launches Linux Port of Database.(Pervasive.SQL 2000i)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 25, 2001... Embedded and web database software vendor Pervasive Software has launched a Linux version of its new Pervasive.SQL 2000i database. The new port is supposed to support the 2.2 and higher Linux kernel. A 10-user license costs $1,200. The...

Business Card-Sized Linux Fork Released.(Linux BBC 1.618)(Product Announcement)
June 25, 2001... Linux BBC, an open source project set up a month ago for the purpose of forking the so-called "bootable business card" developed by Linuxcare, has released its first cut of the mini-OS. The bootable business was a popular novelty item...