From BusinessWire: Enlighten Software Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq:SFTW), a leading provider of integrated event monitoring and systems management software for Unix,
Linux, Windows and FreeBSD today announced the general availability of EnlightenDSM 4.2.

DebianPlanet has a how-to article: “I really wanted to install XFree86 4.0.1 on my Debian machine at work. The problem was that there were packages for Debian 2.3 only – which is
unstable – and I am running stable distribution. So the option to upgrade to Debian 2.3 was out of the question. Then I learned that there are
XFree86 4.0.1 (from now on XF4) packages for Debian 2.2 available (someone on IRC pointed it out to me on #debian; IRC is pretty cool ;).
These packages are unofficial but were compiled using the XF4.0.1 phase-2 source packages for XF4 in unstable distribution as built by Charl P.
Botha, which are good enough for me.”

From The Register: “Intel seems to be largely to blame for the fact that many Linux distributions won’t
install on the Pentium 4. According to the latest Linux 2.2.18 kernel notes,
Chipzilla’s big mistake was to break the usual pattern in CPUID model numbering
without telling people – or at least without telling them loudly enough.”

From BusinessWire: LynuxWorks, Inc., a provider of open source and true real-time embedded
solutions for the post-PC era, today announced that Jetstream Communications used the LynuxWorks LynxOS real-time operating system for
Jetstream’s call processing CPU cards.

From Canada Newswire: Alta Terra Ventures Corp. (ATT on CDNX) will
join with Javabear (a private US company) for the purpose of evaluating,
developing and promoting each others’ products. The goal is to expand the
market potential for the companies’ respective products, being the MaxOS Linux
operating system, MaxOS Embedded OS, MaxOS Linux Server Edition, Javabear
SalesJump, RingWorld and Ganymede (all products are registered trade marks).

PR Newswire has IDC stats about the server market, including Linux growth: “The worldwide server market
turned in a solid performance in 3Q00. According to quarterly server data
released today by IDC, factory revenue jumped 12% from the year-ago quarter to
$15.4 billion. Shipments increased 21% during the same time frame. Sequential
growth was slower, with revenues up 6% from 2Q00. However, the jump from 2Q00
to 3Q00 represents the biggest sequential growth in the market this year. Linux servers are becoming increasingly popular. Revenues for this
emerging operating environment increased a whopping 178% from 3Q99.”

LinuxPlanet has a column about XFree86: “Can we agree that XFree86 has become a mess?

If you don’t, download the current CVS tree and try to make some sense of it. Or, if your connection is such that you really
can’t spare a couple of days to get it, download the source for XFree86-4.01 and take a look. For an extra-special good
time, try building it with direct rendering (DRI) support and a kernel module for your 3-D video card. See what I mean?

Ah, you probably thought that the docs would help you. Lots of luck. The INSTALL.TXT in the top-level directory of the
source was last updated just under three years ago.”

Reuters reports that Microsoft and top independent video game developer Electronic Arts have signed an agreement for EA to develop games on Microsoft’s upcoming Xbox console.

From PR Newswire: Fastlane Software Systems
(http://www.xni.com) announced it has won a Federal Procurement award to
deploy realtime network monitoring systems at the Federal Aviation
Administration. In an intensely competitive field Fastlane Software Systems,
a small start-up beat such industry giants as EDS, Elron and
Concord Communications.
Fastlane’s winning proposal featured a turnkey approach which integrates
their award winning Xni software, various open source elements, the
Redhat (Nasdaq: RHAT) Linux Operating system and Intel based hardware from
Compaq Computer Corporation.

Inter@ctive Week reports that, at least according to Sun Microsystem figures, it was the biggest shipper of Unix workstations and servers in the third quarter of 2000. Sun says it has 62 percent of the market.