From PR Newswire: Electronics for Imaging, Inc.
(Nasdaq: EFII), the world leader in enabling networked printing solutions,
announced today the availability of its Fiery X3 embedded controller for
Konica’s 7075 black-and-white printer/copier. One of the first Linux-based
controllers to hit the market, the Fiery X3 for Konica’s 7075 brings greater
productivity to corporate workgroups, print-for-pay environments, and central
reprographics departments.

ZD’s Computer Shopper compares and contrasts GUIs, saying “KDE and GNOME are close to a Windows 9x/2000 environment in overall operation and functionality” and beat Windows in configurablity.

tjhanson writes:: “I just downloaded and sampled Mozilla 0.7 from the Mozilla ftp site:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla 0.7/.

It’s…it’s… a lot better. Pages are rendered pretty quickly (on Linux, haven’t tried the others), not quite as fast as Netscape 4.*, but a BIG improvement over Netscape 6 (Slugzilla). Email is actually usable now.

This is after an hour’s playing around with it, not a rigorous review. Barring some hidden issue, it’s most likely the one I can actually put in the menu and use every day.”

LWN.net has a long list of fixed stuff, including removing dead arm files, fixing VIA rhine build failure for a few folks, and fixing ymfpci setup for legacy devices.

It’s at LinuxPR: Shoppers in Eastern Massachusetts using
the Internet to find local bricks-and-mortar businesses, will soon have a new
resource to help them find the exact brands, products and services they are
looking to buy. PlaceLinks, Inc., a provider of local online advertising and
promotional systems, has developed a 160-town yellow pages and promotions
directory for TownOnline.com, the web site of Community Newspaper
Company (CNC). The PlaceLinks’ powered local shopping directory will be
available on TownOnline.com’s expanded Marketplace as part of the site’s set of
features beginning next month. Users can view the functionality of the
PlaceLinks’ XML and Linux-based technology at
http://pl1.townonline.placelinks.com.

At LinuxPR: Richard Stallman, philosopher and founder of free software, has accepted the
position of Chief Ethics Officer at FreeDevelopers. The position of Chief Ethics
Officer involves making sure that the general principles of the Free Software
Movement will be followed, including in particular license criteria. This is the
beginning of the judicial branch in the checks and balances, democratic structure
forming at FreeDevelopers.

eWeek reports that Sun Microsystems will soon release the newest draft specification of the XML file format for the StarOffice 6 release.

A column at ZD’s Interactive Week talks about “the ascendancy of the software developer into the driver’s seat” on the Internet and how Linux contributed to the fame of Open Source team leaders like Larry Wall and Brian Behlendorf.

From LinuxPR: The Kannel project has released version 1.0 of the world’s first open source SMS
and WAP gateway.

Kannel version 1.0 is now technically ready and tested for heavy production use.
The Kannel gateway is robust and scalable with the capability of successfully
handling hundreds of messages per second. Kannel supports the most commonly
used SMS center protocols, and is already in production use at Wapit Ltd. and in
many parts of the world, both as an SMS gateway and WAP gateway.

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