LinuxToday has the latest posting from Linus to the kernel mailing list. This release includes LVM updates, netfilter fixes, and some makefile cleanups for m68k.

The Economist reports on the development of light refracting technology whcih could lead to the development of monitors with a resolution of 1000 dots per square inch.

ZDNet reports that Microsoft and Sun are both cutting back their budgets, in light of weak revenue forecasts.

Info World reports that Nortel Networks, Xircom, and Sierra are teaming up to create the third generation of wireless hardware.

ZDNet reports on the creation in November of a group to measure the security of servers, its progress, and discusses how the service could be used when it is ready.

ZDNet checks which software markets Microsoft dominates, where they’re slacking, where they aren’t, and where they could be, in their quest to be everything to everyone.

From a press release at PR News Wire: “Jabber.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Webb
Interactive Services, Inc. (Nasdaq: WEBB) today announced that Transvirtual
Technologies, Inc. has completed their integration of Jabber into the
Transvirtual PocketLinux(R) Platform.”

The December 21 edition of the Embedded Linux Newsletter is now available at LinuxDevices.

LinuxDevices reports: “Ever since Cygnus proposed EL/IX in the Fall of 1999, few companies — other than Red Hat, which acquired
Cygnus late last year — have committed to supporting the would-be embedded OS standard. Many Embedded
Linux companies have privately speculated that Red Hat’s primary motivation for promoting EL/IX as a Linux
application program interface (API) has really been to create the opportunity for applications to migrate from
Linux to eCos (“Red Hat’s other open source OS”) which, like EL/IX, Red Hat inherited through its acquisition of
Cygnus.”

“The purpose of XParts is to extend KParts over language,
toolkit, process and machine bounderies. XParts makes it possible to write KDE components with almost any toolkit or language an author prefers or to turn
existing applications into KDE components quite easily.”From an article by Matthias Ettrich, Simon Hausmann, and Lars Knoll.