Slashdot has information about a company intending to help WINE, the Windows non-emulator for Linux, improve its support for Direct3D and DirectX APIs.

CBS reports on the progress of the Cassini space probe as it moves toward Saturn. The space craft had had earlier trouble.

The Register discusses what CPRM is and what its addition to IDE hardware could mean.

SecurityPortal offers a summary of the latest changes and updates to free security software tools.

Al Gross (W8PAL), ham radio operator, inventor of the “walkie-talkie” handheld radio, and creator of technologies that eventually led to the creation of the pager and cellular phone, died four days before Christmas at his home in Sun City, Arizona. More at ZDNet.

“The PC industry is taking a huge leap backwards as Intel’s new flagship Pentium 4 processor turns out to be an engineering disaster that will hurt both consumers and computer manufacturers for some time to come.” Complete review at Emulators.com.

From LinuxWorld in January to COMDEX in November, ZDNet lists the top technology conferences of the coming year.

TechWeb reports on Lanop’s plan to add twelve new Linux training centers to its nationwide operations.

This Motley Fool article counts VA Linux and Red Hat as among the top stock losers in 2000. “It’s been a particularly wild ride for Red Hat shareholders, given its 1,800% gain last year. Despite the software
company’s reversal of market fortune, Red Hat has continued to grow revenue, which more than doubled in its most
recent quarter to $22.4 million. In addition, gross margin is improving and the company expects to reach profitability
next year.
Things haven’t gone as well recently for VA Linux, which sells servers and other equipment with Linux software, and
which was clobbered after reducing its revenue and earnings forecasts in early November. The company’s main
customers are Internet content distributors and Web-hosting outfits that VA Linux says cut back on their equipment
spending recently.” (VA Linux owns NewsForge.)

CNet reports that IBM has “proclaimed itself fastest of the fast in low-end Unix uniprocessor workstations.
The company announced a pair of additions to its entry-level RS/6000 44 P Model 170 Unix workstation, which the company says will
make the machine fastest in its class.”