If you’re interested, the press release is at PR Newswire:

Lineo, Inc., a leading innovator
in embedded Linux tools, real-time and high availability solutions, today
announced the appointment of Ryan Tibbitts as General Counsel for Lineo.
Effective immediately, Tibbitts assumes responsibility for Lineo’s legal
department. Tibbitts will be part of the company’s executive staff and will
report directly to company COO Matt Harris.

TechWeb has a really short press-release-ish piece: “LEAD Technologies Inc., Charlotte, N.C., says it has
solved painting problems in the Linux operating system.
Its new toolkit, LEADTOOLS Imaging, lets software
developers avoid color shifts by linking the color palettes
of the images they’re using to Linux’s own palette, the
company said.”

From a column at LinuxPlanet: “So far the open source software adventure, which is still a young and charmingly precocious entity
as such things go, has seen no lack of attention paid to the mechanics of development. There’s
endless talk about how open source projects work to pull together globally-diverse programmers,
mostly volunteers, into a distributed development effort …
But there’s a lot more to making software useful than the relatively simple act of creating it, of course.

Frankly, without a viable economic model for businesses that can step in and provide these parts of
the puzzle, open source is little more than hobbyware or tools for the most expert users and
sysadmins.”

From InternetWire: PolyServe, Inc. a leading provider of systems software for
the Internet data center, will demonstrate its
ground-breaking new high-availability server clustering
solution at the upcoming LinuxWorld Expo in New York, January 31- February 2. PolyServe will be located
in booth #1245.

There’s lots of news about Corel’s announcement that its spinning off its Linux distro An InfoWorld story talks about Corel’s plans for profits. A Canoe.ca story mentions how Corel’s stock dropped after the announcement. Slashdotters discuss our own story, plus reports at Yahoo and Linux Today.

Editor & Publisher Online has a story about how strikers at a Seattle newspaper had their Web site up about 2 hours after they went on strike. They used mySQL on Linux to help build the site.

E&P Online profiles the Seattle Union Record, the newspaper set up by striking Seattle newspaper workers. Planning for the site began just six days before the union voted to strike. Workers credit the site’s Open Source solutions — Linux as an operating system; PHP and MySQL for database publishing — for getting the site and print editions to press as quickly as possible.

Reader John Gowin writes: “KWord is part of KDE 2.0’s ambitious KOffice environment. KOffice is an environment comprised of several KDE Office applications that have been grouped together under the KOffice Workspace. KWord’s development project has been supported by theKompany, a KDE application development specialist. KWord is currently at version 0.8, which means that most of its planned features are in place and functional. The next couple of versions will probably deal with stability, and boy, it could use it.” Read the article at LinuxOrbit.com.

Reviewboard.com takes sneak peek at ZendCache, giving the product three out of three stars. “It increases PHP’s
enterprise viability and is directly responsible for huge improvements in performance
which makes PHP leave its competitors in the dust.
We at Reviewboard believe this product, and the upcoming ZendEncoder will be the
thing that allows PHP to be adopted by a huge amount of companies and solution
providers as preferred solutions, creating a slew of commercial support, not to
mention the solution providers.”

An AP story on Nando reports that Bulgarian president Petar Stoyanov was so impressed by a recent break-in on an official government site that he wants to offer the cracker a job. Stoyanov: “He’s obviously very talented, because he broke into the site without damaging any information.” So far, no one has stepped forward to claim responsibility — or a new career.