LinuxWorld.com reviews the old SGI-Irix desktop, Indigo Magic
Desktop project for Linux.

An anonymous reader clued us in to a Matrox G400/G450 review: “The G400 and G450 are Matrox’s latest foray into the world of multiple-monitor cards. While these two are not the only multi-monitor cards that Matrox produces, they are certainly the most affordable. Part the reason for this is Matrox’s engineering on these cards allows them to do…”

Get the scoop at: http://www.linuxlookup.com/html/reviews/videocards /matrox-g400.html“

At LinuxPR: Penguin Computing Inc., a San
Francisco, Calif.-based provider of reliable Linux systems for Internet serving,
today announced that John P. Page has joined the company as chief financial
officer. Page, a veteran of Agilent Technologies Inc. and
Hewlett-Packard Co., brings to Penguin Computing more than a
decade of financial management of fast-growing high-tech operations. Page’s
hiring follows closely on the announcement last week of the appointment of
Marty Seyer, a veteran of high-level positions at NCR and Dell
Computers , as the company’s president and CEO.

From LinuxPR: theKompany.com has release KDE Studio
Gold, a GUI IDE for KDE. This new release delivers a full-fledged IDE for the development of
sophisticated C++ KDE applications — including the high utility features you
expect from a modern development environment, such as code completion,
dynamic syntax highlighting and popup function parameter lookup.

KDE Studio Gold is a commercial release of our Open Source KDE Studio
project.

At LinuxPR: Linuxcare, Inc., a leader in providing
comprehensive professional services and solutions for Linux and open-source
technologies, unveiled today a suite of tiered testing services for enterprise Linux
deployments. Aimed toward original equipment manufacturers,
independent hardware and software vendors, Linuxcare Labs
Enterprise Services provides rigorous and comprehensive product-based testing
and certification, so that vendors can confidently and quickly deliver optimized
products to their end customers. Through its new services, Linuxcare Labs has
tested and certified 3ware Inc.’s Escalade 6800 ATA Raid Controller and Ecrix
Corp.’s VXA-1 tape drive in enterprise Linux environments.

CNet reports that Corel isn’t expected to announce a Linux strategy at a Tuesday news conference about the direction of the company.

From LinuxPR: Zelerate, Inc., the leading provider of
accelerated e-commerce solutions, has announced that Nimish Mehta has
joined the company’s board of directors. Mehta’s in-depth high technology
experience includes executive operating positions as well as venture capital:
Senior Vice President of Oracle’s Industry Applications and CRM Division;
President and CEO of Impresse Corporation; and Managing Director of
Neospring Ventures, LLC, which invests in early stage software, infrastructure
and applications startups.

The CBC reports on a pending announcement that Corel Corp. will partner with
ELance Inc., a California company, and launch an
online marketplace for creative services. The news sent Corel’s shares soaring more
than 20 percent by Monday afternoon.

ZDNet reports on a twist in running global businesses that Internet firms might not have fully expected. It seems that businesses in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the European Union are being warned that they face prosecution if they pass on a consumer’s personal information to their US partners or counterparts.

The company who developed most of the PHP scripting language now offers a few new applications designed to use PHP. In fact, the caching program, encoder, and PHP development environment are billed as being the first applications developed to use PHP. Full story at Techweb. More from CNet.