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.

ZDCOUK reports: “Network computer maker Sun Microsystems denied on Monday
that it faced accounting problems, though analysts questioned the
company’s growth prospects.”

Our friends at the LinuxNews Team submitted this story: “Sven Neumann and Michael Natterer prepared an RFC about GIMP. We can learn that
there will be three branches in CVS – 1.2.x branch (stable GIMP), 1.3.x ( devel GIMP but
not many new features) and 1.9.x (VERY devel GIMP with whole new structure, GEGL and
GCim stuff). Looks like GIMP 1.2.0 is on it’s way to the users 🙂
Check out the RFC!”

Upside Today’s Sam Williams interviews Jaron Lanier: “How I hated Unix back in the ’70s — that devilish
accumulator of data trash, obscurer of function, enemy of
the user,” he writes. “If anyone had told me back then
that getting back to embarrassingly primitive Unix would
be the great hope and investment obsession of the year
2000, merely because its name was changed to Linux
and its source code was opened up again, I never would
have had the stomach or the heart to continue in
computer science.”

Newsforge reader Fernando Correa contributed this story: “My official title is Editor in Chief for the Open Source
Development Network,
owner of Slashdot.org, freshmeat.net, sourceforge.net, linux.com, and a
number
of other sites. You probably know me best as ‘Roblimo’ on Slashdot. I
tend to
prefer the title ‘Editor and Rabblerouser.’ Perhaps I’ll have that
printed on my
next batch of business cards. People who know me personally understand
that
this is a better description of what I do than a traditional,
fancy-sounding
corporate title.”
Check the entire interview at Olinux.br

From Anandtech: “The benchmarks all agree that the Duron is by far the best value processor on the market. Yet the Duron’s sales couldn’t be lower. SiS has a solution to this problem as they attempt to provide the Duron with a home through their 730S chipset. Does the 730S have what it takes to help the Duron compete with the Celeron? Or will the chipset end up hurting the Duron in the long run? We answer these questions and more in our in-depth analysis of the SiS 730S Chipset.”

The PogoLinux site reported yesterday: “After much delay, we are jumpstarting our Free CD
program again. If you have not received your previous CD requests,
please enter then again here. You will receive only 1 request. Any
request received in December will begin shipping on 12/27/00.”

Iain Farthing, north European channel sales manager for Red Hat, said: “In our discussions with end users, it is obvious that people
are not just looking for an operating system; they want a solution for their business to be delivered. The IBM packages give Red
Hat the opportunity to start delivering solutions.” Enterprise Linux Today reports.