A columnist distributed by Nando Times talks about the new operating systems and user interfaces due out this year, including Eazel for Linux and Mac OS X. The article rips the way GUIs work.

From PR Newswire: The PHP Group
today announced that PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor), the popular open-source
Web scripting language, is now found on more than five million Web domains,
according to Netcraft. Netcraft’s authoritative survey of
Web servers showed that PHP passed the 5.1 million domain mark this month,
confirming PHP’s position as one the fastest growing technologies for creating
dynamic Web sites.

Humor site Segfault makes fun of a couple of our favorite sites: “Rumors of KuroDot ‘readers’, as mentioned in an earlier story of Wednesday, January 3rd, 2001, are
now being dismissed as false. ‘Exaggerated, patently erroneous, and other large, multisyllabic words,’
claimed site founder, RustyTaco. ‘You see, it’s funny, because while I was ribbing myself for using big
words, I used a big word,’ he added.

When pressed about the issue, RustyTaco went on to explain that ‘we here at KuroDot are not in the
business of having users. In fact, Hemoshiro is in the process of talking to our lawyer regarding a
patent of the userless weblog. I’ll be damned if anyone is going to profit from our lack of interest!’ ”

The Reigster reports that Zelerate, formerly known as Open Sales, will close its Alburquerque office as part of a cost-saving measure.

From PR Newswire:
CSP Inc. (Nasdaq: CSPI), a
provider of Internet software for e-business solutions, image processing
software, network management integration services and dense cluster computing
systems, today reported financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2001
ended November 30, 2000. The cCmpany sees a growing demand for wireless e-business solutions
and dense Linux cluster computing system offerings.

From BusinessWire: Turbolinux, the leader in high-performance Linux for Internet infrastructure solutions, today announced a global distribution and support agreement
with IBM (NYSE:IBM). Turbolinux will offer e-business software solutions that include all of IBM’s Linux-based software.

The Standard reports that police in Germany are investigating whether
file-swapping sites like Napster, Gnutella, and MyNapster
are being used to trade child pornography, and whether users
have stored illegal material on their PCs.

From LinuxPR: With Open Source becoming an
important part of the IT landscape a common problem is where researchers and
business professionals can go to begin to understand the fundamentals of Open
Source development in a Commercial environment without having to move
through lots of onesided and unbalanced papers.

TICons has now released CommercialOS.org to provide a solution to this
problem.

Linuxdevices has a story complete with photos. The car’s Super8 Hemi’s Infotronic system is, according to the company, “a state-of-the-art embedded computer system, which was designed
to satisfy the never-ending thirst of tomorrow’s automobile
drivers and passengers for Internet-based data and information.
The goal of the Infotronic system is to provide Infotainment,
‘edutainment,’ and entertainment services that meet the
lifestyle of each individual driver or passenger.”

From LinuxPR: Corridor Software, a provider of
innovative Linux-based software for small businesses, today announced it will
release its Connection Server software on February 28, 2001. The first beta
versions are undergoing internal testing and will begin shipping to qualified
testers and resellers around the country in the next two weeks.