From LinuxPR: TelcoSoft, Inc is pleased to announce the availibility of Extensys 1.0.2 for the
Linux x86, SCO Unixware and Alpha Tru64 UNIX platforms.
Extensys is a powerful and complete environment for developing and deploying
production-grade communications applications in a distributed environment.

LWN.net posts an update on the state of Debian Jr.: “A first attempt at task-jr was created, but it is very minimal. It
will *not* populate your system with children’s software. It is just
a base. In fact, I’m considering renaming it task-jr-base to clear
up this confusion. Furthermore, since I wrote it, I’m really not
happy at all with my choices of dependencies.”

LinuxOrbit interviews Miguel de Icaza, GNOME
evangelist and developer and Helix Code co-founder about Helix
Code’s plans for its products and projectsin the New Year.

From BusinessWire: Hungry Minds, Inc, (Nasdaq: HMIN) (formerly IDG Books Worldwide) and Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq: RHAT) today announced a joint multi-title
publishing agreement to produce books around Red Hat’s extensive product line, including Red Hat(R) Linux . The partnership will bring together the
leader in developing, deploying and managing open source Internet infrastructure solutions and the leading domestic publisher of computer books.
Through this publishing agreement, Hungry Minds and Red Hat will work to bring open source books to market, on a worldwide basis, through 2002.

ZDNet reports that Linus and crew delivered the Linux 2.4 prerelease kernel to testers New Year’s Eve, which could mean a full-blown 2.4 kernel shortly.

Tonight live on www.thelinuxshow.com: At 6 p.m. pst (9 p.m. east) Kevin, Jeff, PJ, Doc Searls
(of the Linux Journal), and Emmett Plant (formerly of Time City, /. and
Linux.com) have a great show lined up! It’s
another post holiday show with loads and loads of fun stuff.
In Segment One — Hot News: We will be covering the hot Linux news of
the week, plus interesting news in the greater technology world. If
Chris Kolar joins in, we will have all of the hosts past and present,
joining in on tonight’s show.

In Segments Two and Three — The Day After: Part Two, the New Year: We
will discuss what we think will be the upcoming trends for Linux and
Technology in 2001. Plus at the suggestion of maddog, we will be requesting
everyone to give us their resolutions for the next year as well. These prognostications and resolutions will be posted to our site so that
people can remind everyone of what they said 12 months from now. The panel
will be dramatically expanded tonight. Joining us will be:

• Arne Flones, former host of TLS
• Art Tyde, founder of Linuxcare
• Cameron Cooper, CEO of Phat Linux
• Nitrozac, artist, creator of “After Y2K” (www.geekculture.com) and geek
  goddess
• John H Terpstra, Caldera Systems
• Russell C. Pavlicek, Linux Evangelist Compaq for Professional Services
• Ben Cox, of the Linux Fund
• Michael Salsman of BEA Systems, Inc.

• and a very special guest Peter Salus, historian, author and Unix
  community icon.

Plus a whole bunch more who are maybes.

If you would like to join us on the show, check our our IRC Chat
(irc.thelinuxshow.com #linuxshow), at the start of the show and we will give
out the phone number to call in and express you opinion.

Remember tune in at 6 p.m. pst, and 9 p.m. east. Catch the Linux show at www.thelinuxshow.com
– From jeff Gerhardt

The Harpia Project releases its first beta release. Harpia is a topic-centric dynamic content management system. Topic-centric design lets the user follow a logical thought through topics to find all associated items to that topic. Each item (i.e. news, links, FAQ, etc.) are associated to one or more topics and the all the items are displayed for each topic. Harpia is written in PHP 3.x and uses mySQL database, using a very modular design for easy modification to core or modules.

Check amalla.com for more details.
Check here for downloads. –Harpia

From ApacheToday : “The profiling process helps you to determine which subroutines or just snippets of code take the longest time
to execute and which subroutines are called most often. Probably you will want to optimize those.

When do you need to profile your code? You do that when you suspect that some part of your code is called
very often and may be there is a need to optimize it to significantly improve the overall performance.”

Dr. Dobbs’ latest weekly edition of Tcl news and links is now available at LinuxToday.

This month’s ShowMeLinux looks at international Open Source efforts, women in the IT industry, and a debate of “what Open Source really means.”