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cswiii writes "This c|net article talks about IBM, following the footsteps of Sun, to offer Linux support upon IBM's UNIX systems. " The most recent announcement from Sun, about LXRUN is quite similar. Essentially, both parties have modified their Unix flavors to enable AIX and Solaris to run Linux binaries.

Jeff Hyche wrote in to point us the latest RIAA shenanigan. The record industry organization had been attempting to garner a larger amount of royalties from digital distribution - IE Internet, satellites and cable modems.

It started in the Wall Street Journal, but the story has spread all over. Microsoft has started group, much like in the case of Java to get into the minds of the Linux community. At least we now they see us as a serious, despite claims to the contrary.

Darkfell writes "The first Palm computer able to connect directly to the Internet will be unveiled in New York on May 24, according to people familiar with the company's plans. Along with the new device, Palm will debut its Palm.net wireless Internet service. "

Yun Ye writes "Finally, a journaling FS for Linux! Get the full story . Excellent-we'll have to ask the SGI people about it tomorrow. And who came up with the name change. Whatever the case, this will help Linux continue to crack the high-end market.

Chip Stillmore writes "Just read this news.com. Apparently Linux.com is supposed to be going live today. " The page simply says tonight. I've seen what they're doing over there. It isn't at all what I really expected when they announced that they had bought the domain, but it ain't bad. As long as it covers the newbie stuff though, I'm happy. As of 2300 Eastern, it's live!

cybrthng writes "Check out the news on CNET's News.Com about how PlayMedia is now taking its lawsuit against NullSoft after MP3.COM also. " The article talks about the fact that MP3.com doesn't know all that much either-although it appears that PlayMedia is targeting them because they have determined that MP3.com was the biggest distributor. Either that, or they want a chunk of the 115$US million MP3 is hoping to raise in their IPO.

webslacker writes "According to ZDNet, Linux Systems will open up the much-coveted Linux.com website on Tuesday. Pretty good timing too... I can give it a visit before I get in line for you-know-what. " Hmm. I thought they were going to wait until Expotime, but I guess not. OctobrX, Linux.com webmaster and former themes.org head, will be in the Slashdot booth during the Expo. CmdrTaco is also one of the linux.com board members. I can't wait to see the site. Update: 05/17 11:39 by J : A news.com article about it.

tea-leaves writes "Xerox and Microsoft are partnering to put Windows NT in their print boxes and such. Story says the technology replaces "UNIX-compatible" software already in place. Xerox wants to compete with HP for the desktop printing market with integrated printer solutions that use Microsoft software for the interconnect. Check it out. " I feel like we're going to have to re-sanctify Palo Alto after this.

Quite a number of people wrote in to address the latest announcement and news from Sun Microsystems. Using a program they are calling lxrun, Solaris will be able to run "unmodified Linux binaries".

webslacker wrote in to send us a news.com story that talks about the upcoming IP Address Shortage. Talks about IPv6 and other related topics. Nothing phenomonal, but its interesting... how many class C's do we have left anyway?

Dr. Wild wrote in to tell us that Sony has announced their portable dog/robot. We've mentioned this here a few times before, but now its official. The article actually spends most of the space talking about how the robot might be some crafty trick to sneak Sony technology into the US market place. I just thought it was a little robotic dog. Guess I'm naive.

AOL announced today it is teaming up with NCI, as software partner, to build a range of AOL set-top boxes. NCI uses FreeBSD suggesting AOL may be shipping FreeBSD based boxes. The devices will use MediaGX chips from National/Cyrix. Update: 05/12 04:07 by S : Paul Wain of NCI wrote in to tell me in an unofficial capacity that their "Corporate" Machines use a NetBSD derivative but the consumer ones use other OSes. Some of our server products use FreeBSD but not the "Consumer" ones.

bearded.duane writes "America Online is considering the Linux operating system as one option for running an inexpensive Internet access device, according to sources familiar with the project. "

Richard Jones wrote in to send us a story from news.com talking about the latest developments in European Spam Law. They basically ruled it legal. (CT:The U-Haul is returned, we have a lot of unpacking to do, but next week should be back to normal around here.)

ill-logic writes "Here's an article at News.com that gives some more detailed info on the appeals court ruling overturning a case involving a programmer posting source code for his crypto program on the net. The judge ruled that his code is protected under the first amendment. At least there is one non-programmer out there that knows there are benefits in programmers swapping code. "

ill-logic writes "Here's an article at News.com that gives some more detailed info on the appeals court ruling overturning a case involving a programmer posting source code for his crypto program on the net. The judge ruled that his code is protected under the first amendment. At least there is one non-programmer out there that knows there are benefits in programmers swapping code. "

An anonymous reader sent us a story over at news.com that proclaims some joyous news: The a US appeals court has ruled Export Laws Unconstitutional. Excellent.

An anonymous reader writes " It's official now. Kleiner Perkins has blessed the Linux movement. Nobody will ever be fired for deploying Linux. " Kleiner Perkins is one of the VCs behind Amazon and Netscape.

drwiii writes "news.com has a news tidbit about NSI going to court because of their refusal to register domain names that they feel are "obscene". " What's amusing to me is the steady flow of words that I hear about that are rejected, considering the relative naughtiness of many existing domains.

Roast Beef wrote in to send us a news.com article about Lucasfilm's form letter to ISPs. Somewhat related to the recent story about Bootleg Movies for Download, but it boils down to the age old "Are ISPs responsible for the content on their servers" debate.

tknockers writes "News.com has a story about how Linus describes Linux as being "fun". He even goes on to say that in 150 years our lives will only be motivated by fear of boredom. "

Gambit Thirty-Two pointed us to this story, in which Indian magistrates called an elephant in to "crush hundreds of pirate compact discs." This was to symbolize crushing priacy in India. And, sorta related-Nate will be in India from May 10 - June 10. If you can hook him up with telnet during that time, drop him a line/a.

An anonymous reader wrote in to say that "At the AMD shareholder's meeting today, AMD and KyroTech demonstrated a K7 system running at a cool 1 GHz! " Update: 04/29 10:26 by J : An article at news.com discusses AMD's plans for the chip, including pricing and initial speeds.

ChrisRijk writes "See the HotSpot main-page for starters. HotSpot is basically a fast JVM, initially aimed at server-side Java - beta testers say it's 2x or more faster in real world applications - see this good article (not by Sun). See also the press release, FAQ, and white paper. Freely downloadable binaries available later this week. Linux port? Well, Sun are liscencing the code (for a fee), and claim to have designed it to be easily portable. Sun also announced their i-Planet software today - see this news.com article. "

fruviad sent us a link to a story over at news.com talking about Red Hat's New COO that will be starting Monday, and talks about unconfirmed IPO rumors for what they call the "Darling of the Linux world".

News.com is running a story about AOL Considering Linux, although its fairly hazy on the details. Talks about Netscape turned AOLs investment in Red Hat, Linux in Consumer devices (seems to say its a bad idea, despite the mention of the empeg) and other assorted rumors with little solid claims from anyone beyond 'no comments'.

GnuGrendel sent us a News.com Story about Red Hat 6.0. Scheduled to be on shelves on May 10, it ought to be announced on Monday. Supposedly more expensive for the box, but still free for download (of course). Oh, and both KDE & GNOME.

Wonko42 writes "Apple has apparently decided to make QuickTime open-source in order to beat the competition. The article is on News.com. " I sure hope so. Of course, the article leaves several questions unanswered: what kind of license? APSL? What about codecs? Since it's only the server, I assume nothing will happen in regards to opening codecs. I hope I'm wrong, but fear I'm not. Thoughts?

Well, it appears that a number of you noticied NSI's latest escapade. Yes, this time our friends have decided to create company profiles of all registrants - including addresses, ownership, number of employees, years in business, annual sales, and phone and facsimile numbers. Mmm...I thought spam was bad enough. Who the heck is the . in .com? Um-a bunch of you needed to be told this was a joke (the last sentence). Sarcasm, folks.

Clith writes "A story at www.news.com talks about availability of the new Sega Dreamcast. The page reports that "the system will be priced at $199 when it debuts on September 9." Will the Playstation2 really be all that much better? " Hmmm...I hope so-yesterday's article about the Playstation 2 has me salivating. Maybe DVD. Mmmm-I love gratitous technology.

An anonymous reader sent us a link to a CNet story talking about Corel's Linux Distribution. The story talks about a lot of things from GNOME to a few other Linux companies as well as Corel's Linux plans.

An anonymous reader writers "NeoPlanet will tommorow release a beta version of a Gecko-based browser. They plan to release a final version by May. Nice to see the technology see the light of day before the end of the year." To bad its not for Linux.

Wah writes "Story on C|Net about 3Com licensing manufacturers to make Palm clones "Palm signed licensing deals with cell phone companies such as Qualcomm and pager companies, which used the OS in devices that were different in design than the Palm. ". Uber-devices forthcoming... " Hopefully this means they can continue to pound the tar out of WinCE.

An anonymous reader sent us a link to a news.com story that talks about Caldera releasing a 'Consumer Friendly Linux' designed to allow the newbies to use it without touching a CLI.

GenePrescott sent us a news.com story that talks about Microsoft and Intel working together on a thin server thrust. They're going to try to use thin appliance type servers to compete with the Threat that Linux poses to them. Interesting article. Interesting tactic. Not sure if it'll work.

Couple of interesting developments in Linux hardware lately. The Linux Store is selling super cheap linux boxes. news.com has a story about them where they proclaim that they will only be advertising on sites like Slashdot and Freshmeat except that Scoop doesn't even had ads, and I'd never heard of them before reading that article. An actual advertiser (Penguin Computing), however now has a 8 CPU Xeon Box that runs Linux (of course). First 8 CPU box I've seen running Linux (which I didn't even know could do 8 way SMP. Although I've been told of 32 and 64 chip linux boxes in development by other companies. No I can't name names).

Well, I try to avoid posting MS stories unless they're kinda large, but about 50 people have submitted a CNet story that proclaims that MS might be charging as much as $89 for a Service Patch to Windows 98. I guess I'd try to come up with an appropriately witty comment, but I'm at a loss for words here. Update: 04/07 03:27 by CT : apparently Cnet is screwed up a bit here, and CNN has a more accurate story. Read it.

pmsyyz sent us a news.com story that talks about the new alpha based Compaq Servers. Lots of interesting tidbits (and hardware specs to drool over) but it reveals that the compiler and libs will not be open source, although they will be cheap. Just read it- its interesting, but frusterating to read about putting Digital's excellence and Compaq's marketing together, and stirring in a PHB decision like a closed source compiler.

Smasher writes "The redesigned, more ambitious incarnation of Salon is now "completely rebuilt" around Linux and Apache. This is a great boost--Salon is a very popular site, and this gives Linux even more exposure to the mainstream. " We see Salon articles regularly on these pages. Glad to see them take the plunge. Update: 04/05 10:17 by CT : here's a news.com story on the same thing.

preed-man writes "I don't know what's up in Mountain View, but it's not good: AOL has laid off about 430 Netscape employees; in addition to this, a "key Mozilla.org figure" has resigned as well. It's a somber time in Mountain View. " CT : Sorry about the lag in story postings. Reformatted and reinstalled, but I now have a nice shiny new Debian box.

jsr writes "News.com is reporting that JWZ resigned today from mozilla.org. No word yet on why he is quiting. Expect to see something on his site soon though."

Ten years ago, Bill Gates bemoaned competition undermining Microsoft: "Our DOS gold mine is shrinking and our costs are soaring--primarily due to low prices, IBM share, and DR-DOS." This evidence came out in Caldera's lawsuit against Microsoft for predatory practices against DR-DOS. Bill Gates goes on to say "I believe people underestimate the impact DR-DOS has had on us in terms of pricing" Update: 03/31 11:36 by S : More info at Caldera's website is quite interesting, for instance detailing Vobis' attempts at using DR-DOS instead.

Vic writes "SAP announced an equity investment of an undisclosed amount by the SAP Venture Fund in Red Hat Software, adding more support to the Linux bandwagon and the open source movement. " So SAP is big in Germany? Why would Red Hat be interested in Germany? Can you spell S.u.S.E?

ChronosX writes "A news.com article provides a hint that Apple is thinking about relaunching a branded handheld product, but isn't interested in developing their own. Who's the only company making an all around solid handheld that fits Apple's easy to use computing philosophy? Why that would be the Pilot, of course. " At the shareholders meeting, Jobs has left open the possibilty of Apple relaunching a handhold, and confirmed that they have talked to 3Com about the Palm division. ApplePilot anyone?

hepjedi writes "News.com is reporting that Novell is giving away its source code. " They did this at their annual conference and rolled out plans to "...the release of core NetWare protocols, to test releases of its clustering software, to further refinements in its strategy to provide management tools for NetWare and Microsoft's Windows NT operating system." Their basic aim is to get more developers for the system (Duh).

phlebas writes "Cnet news has an article about how "Compaq Computer sees Linux as a way to increase sales of its Alpha microprocessor, and the company is trying to encourage other Linux distributors besides Red Hat to support the chip." They ar also plannig to "soon introduce new pricing geared to encourage Linux users to "step up" from Intel to Alpha chips." Maybe after all i'll be able to get one those in my lifetime " I think it's pretty clear that Linux is the way for Compaq's to really push the Alpha-let's hope they actually do it.

b12arr0 sent us a link to a quick little GNOME article. An anonymous reader wrote in to say that GNUStep.org has had a major makeover. Nice to see that project still alive and kicking. chrisd wrote in to say that VA has made its first acquisition: ElectricLichen, possibly best known to most of us as the Beer Hike guys. OGL wrote in to give us the heads up to Linux Game Tome for info about a a work-in-progress video game starring Tux in a 3D environment. The screenshots alone are unbelievably cool. Brian Gue wrote in to tell us of a new a beer called Fubar. Why not fubeer? snorkel sent us a link to yet-another-dancing-animal-page. This is the Cow Dance Finally Vik Olliver wrote in with the most impressive Linux Fan act I've seen (narrowly edging out the dude at LWCE with the Tux hairdo). It is of course, Husband and Wife matching Tux Tatoos. My largely tux based fashion sense pales by comparison.

Well, starting this morning, DELL are starting to sell Linux pre-installed on selected workstations, dell asks for additional 99$ for the installation. Full report from News.com is here. Speaking of pre-installing, IBM just told Info-world reporters that they will keep selling Linux servers, but they will "wait-and-see" about selling Workstation pre-installed with Linux. Am I the only one who thinks that IBM need to learn about selling from Dell?

NEC, the world's second largest semiconductor manufacturer, believes that the sucess of Linux would allow another microprocessor architecture to be established in the PC market. If Linux becomes mainstream, the basis for microprocessor competition would be cost/performance and not architecture. Although NEC might design its own processor architecture for Linux, it's more likely that they use the existing MIPS architecture. In related news, Justsystem will port its Ichitaro word processing program to Linux, and offer in July ATOK, a program for Japanese-language input.