From LinuxLookup.com: “With Linux-based for-profit companies having a difficult time making money, and the accelerating consolidation of Linux market share into fewer commercial distributions, it is questionable whether free software cangrow beyond geekdom into the mainstream.” –Jonny5

From a post at Debian Planet: “I’ve just noticed today that Eazel’s Nautilus 0.5-2.1, otherwise known as PR2 has been recently released into the Woody stream, so it might be time to remove that Nautilus deb line from your sources.list file.”

Linux Today reports: “Wednesday, theKompany.com, a Linux software firm, announced they have handed the source code to Kivio, their flowcharting tool, over to the KDE project, and that the GPL’d program is now available in the KDE CVS tree. theKompany’s CEO sees the donation as a testing of the waters for a business model that includes GPL’d software.”

Slashdot reviews Mark Arnold, Jeff Almeida, & Clint Miller’s Administering Apache. “More than an introduction, it will be a good reference, not just for the mechanics of the software, but for the technique and mindset necessary to maintain an installation in a business environmen

Slashdot readers discuss a news post at Zophar’s about a Dreamcast user running Linux on his gaming console.

From a press release at Business Wire: “Trend Micro Inc. (Nasdaq:TMIC), the leading provider of antivirus solutions for the Internet gateway, today announced its award-winning InterScan VirusWall gateway virus protection and content filtering solution for Red Hat, SuSE, and Turbo Linux, the most widely used versions of the Linux operating system used in North America, Germany, and Japan, respectively.”

“MontaVista Software, Inc., developer of the Hard Hat Linux operating system for embedded applications, today announced the immediate availability of tools that streamline porting of legacy VxWorks code from Wind River Systems, to a Linux platform. With the new MontaVista tools, developers can reap the benefits of moving to a full-featured, open-source platform without the massive engineering burden usually associated with such a move.” Full press release at Business Wire.

“Hoping to catch the Net’s latest technology trend, Sun Microsystems is quietly creating a team of engineers with hopes of merging Java and the file-swapping technology that brought Napster to the music-loving masses.” Complete story at CNET News.com.

From a press release at PR Newswire: “Xi Graphics Inc., a privately held firm that specializes in premium graphics support software for Linux and UNIX systems, announced today the release of version 6 of its line of Accelerated-X Display Servers for laptop, desktop and multi-head use.”

The Register reports on the site, Dshief.org, which “has been created that will allow network administrators or tech-savvy users
to exchange information on crackers who are trying to break into other people’s
computers.”