From LinuxPR: Lutris Technologies Inc., a leading open
source enterprise software and services company, today announced a licensing
partnership with Pixo, Inc., a leading developer of software and services for
wireless phones. Under the terms of the agreement, Pixo’s Internet
Microbrowser will be integrated with Lutris Enhydra 3.5 to assist developers
worldwide in building applications for wireless devices. The partnership provides
a robust solution to developers worldwide using Lutris Enhydra 3.5, the first
application server with native support for compact HTML (cHTML).

From PR Newswire: VMware, Inc. today announced
that its popular VMware Express desktop software is now available directly
from VMware on its Web store ( http://www.vmware.com ) for just $79.
Introduced in May 2000, VMware Express allows users to run either Microsoft
Windows 95 or Windows 98 in a virtual machine on a Linux system, gaining full
access to all of their favorite Windows applications while simultaneously
running Linux.

LinuxOrbit interviews Charles Northrup, CTO for Global Technologies and the
lead developer on the GNOME port to Windows. “The first software product we worked with was U/WIN as a common operating environment between all the
various UNIX platforms, and windows. The rationale for this product line is simple: the incompatabilities
between UNIX and Windows source code have a strong negative influence on the application development
community. We either develop for UNIX, or develop for Windows. Far too often the selection is exclusive of
the opposing operating system.”

InfoWorld reports on MS’s launch of Whistler for embedded systems. “Microsoft clearly needs to counter in some way the trend to move toward Linux as the
popular embedded OS,” said Dwight Davis, an analyst at Summit Strategies.

InfoWorld reports on MS’s launch of Whistler for embedded systems. “Microsoft clearly needs to counter in some way the trend to move toward Linux as the
popular embedded OS,” said Dwight Davis, an analyst at Summit Strategies.

At BusinessWire: MontaVista Software, Inc., developer of the Hard Hat(TM) Linux operating system
for embedded applications, has established the “MontaVista University” training program for subscribing developers who wish to acquire a deeper
understanding and greater development efficiency in the open source Linux domain. The program will launch on January 15, 2001, with classes at
subscriber sites and at MontaVista Software’s corporate headquarters.

From LinuxPR: Lineo, Inc., a leading innovator in
embedded Linux systems, real-time and high availability solutions, today
announced Lineo Academix, a scholastic program designed to prepare
industry professionals and students for the expanding field of embedded Linux
programming.

From LinuxPR: OSO-DAWN No.1 is the first hybrid Linux/Open-Source package ever
introduced in China by Open Source Online China, which announced the package recently.

32bitsonline has the review: “The authors of ‘Practical UNIX and Internet Security,’ Simson Garfinkel and Gene Spafford, write in a very
down-to-earth, simple fashion that never leaves the reader wondering. Instead, the book is written for both
those new to the field and the professionals that need a good reference manual lying on their shelves.”

The report, at seul.org, addresses this question: “I have some really slow freshmen who have a hard time in algebra class connecting ordered pairs with points on a Cartesian
coordinate system. Does anybody know of a game that helps teach coordinate graphing? I was thinking of something like
Battleship that would require you to specify ordered pairs instead of A4, B6, etc.”