“We purchased Caldera’s eDesktop 2.4 several months ago. It was released last May. It is on sale today at
Staples for under $10.00.” From LinuxTests.org.

Linux Today posted it: “Handle with care. I think the fs updates are right but I don’t guarantee it.”

Anandtech reports: “The 4060M is the latest member of MidiLand’s ever growing S4 speaker line. Take a look as we put this 2.1 speaker set to the test.”

Mikael Pawlo writes “The Swedish website Flashback is getting back online. The controversial web site is now hosted by the Swede Zenon Panoussis, currently living in the Netherlands.The website has an interesting story. Flashback is a web site, a newsletter, a magazine and an virtual ISP. It’s editor in chief and CEO is Jan Axelsson, a Swede well-known for his strong believes in freedom of speech. All business is conducted in the spirit of “freedom of speech – use it or loose it”. Everyone is welcome to publish their opinions or host their websites with Flashback, as long as they do not break the laws of Sweden, such as threats, defamation and so forth.

Nevertheless, a Swedish politician, Bjorn Fries, has been trying to shut Flashback down for a long period of time. Fries is a famous nazi-fighter in Sweden and has received several awards for his work. Fries argues that he’s beeing threatened by one of the web sites hosted by Flashback. However, he did not try to shut the site down in court. Instead the municipal lawyer of Karlskrona (where Fries is chairman of the municipal executive board) wrote all the mayor Swedish cable and Internet providers, urging them not to sell Internet access to Flashback. This also happened.

All the larger companies denied Flashback access and they denied smaller ISPs backbone access if they would take Axelsson as a customer. Thus Flashback was put offline. Axelsson has sued the major companies for breach of the EC competition law, but such law suits take long time in Sweden and it’s a tough case to win.

This has raised interesting questions whether major ISPs should be able to choose their customers and the customers of their ISP customers. Please note that no legal suite has predestined the shutdown of Flashback.

The current location of Flashback.

Index of articles about the incident – most of them in Swedish.”

Anonymous Reader writes: LinuxIT has announced that it
has signed an agreement to acquire the business interests of 01Linux Solutions
Ltd, a UK-based Linux support and consulting company.

The acquisition strengthens LinuxIT’s position as one of the leading Vendor-neutral
solution providers in Europe.

01Linux has marketed itself extensively as a solutions and services provider
and has acquired a reputation for quality offerings based around excellent technical
expertise.

Peter Dawes, Managing Director of LinuxIT commented, “This move comes on the
back of another year of excellent organic growth by LinuxIT and is in accordance
with LinuxIT’s strategy of developing a complete offering to individuals and
institutions looking for Open Source solutions.”

“The integration of 01Linux into LinuxIT will further add to our Support and
Professional Services offerings. We are now offering Total Linux support for
all types of customers ranging from one server through to corporates with hundreds
of mission critical systems. Combined with our bespoke development, porting
of applications to Linux and our educational offerings, this means that LinuxIT
is in a unique position to service the growing demand for Linux and Open Source
know-how.”

Chris Alberry, Managing Director of 01Linux adds, “I am delighted at the new
venture with LinuxIT. I am sure that our customers at 01linux will benefit greatly
from the merger of our business interests and will be reassured that they will
now be supported by one of the largest Linux solutions providers.”

Customers with existing support contracts with 01Linux have been advised, and
will now be supported by LinuxIT Professional Services.

About LinuxIT

LinuxIT is one of Europe’s leading vendor-neutral solutions provider focused
exclusively on Linux and Open Source technologies. LinuxIT delivers solutions
which incorporate turnkey systems (pre-configured hardware), training, consultancy,
software and enterprise-level support and expertise. Founded in 1998, LinuxIT
has its headquarters in Bristol, United Kingdom, phone +44 (0)117 905 8718.

For more information on LinuxIT visit http://www.linuxit.com.

About 01Linux

01Linux Solutions offers customers complete end-to-end systems and support.
01Linux has marketed itself extensively as a solutions and services provider
and has a reputation for quality offerings based on excellent technical expertise.
01linux also offers a comprehensive range of support services, from registration
of a single incident to 24×7 coverage.

For more information on 01Linux visit http://www.01linux.co.uk

About Linux

The last five years has seen a rapid expansion in the use of Linux by business
and institutions. Attracted by a winning combination of high reliability, high
power and low cost, thousands of forward-thinking enterprises have left behind
the license-laden world of proprietary software for the freedom of open source.
Linux is the fastest growing Server operating environment.

The Netcraft Web Server survey (http://www.netcraft.com/survey) based on over
25,000,000 sites reports that over 60% of all web servers world-wide are running
Apache on Linux. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. All other names and
trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Contact:

Peter Dawes, Managing Director, LinuxIT
peterd@linuxit.com
Phone – +44 (0)117 905 8718
Fax – +44 (0)117 905 8818

State
attorneys general say
they are determined to
pursue the antitrust case
against Microsoft, even if
the Justice Department,
under President-elect
Bush, tries to back away. From ZDNET.

jeramy b smith writes “penguinppc.org, the home of the PowerPC Linux port, presents an editorial on the idea of a PowerPC Linux specific non-profit. This idea has been tossed around, exploited, and abused and now penguinppc.org takes an in-depth look at what this would really mean.”

Locked in a supercharged race
with giant rival Intel Corp., Advanced Micro
Devices Inc. is introducing a speedier new
version of its Duron chip for personal computers, this AP report at MSNBC tells us.

The Seattle Times reports that the
federal judge who ordered
Microsoft split in two last
year compares Bill Gates to
Napoleon – even musing that
the company founder should
be required to write a book
report on him – and said
Microsoft executives behave
like children.

LinuxNews.pl wrote to let us know that there’s a project afoot to merge certain OpenOffice components into the GNOME
component system. Read more at OpenOffice.org.