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.”

“Ok we believe the VM crash looping printing error messages is now fixed.
Marcelo finally figured it out and my 8Mb 486 has been running 2.2.18pre
with that fix and stably.” It’s posted at LinuxToday.

EE Times reports on the Bluetooth Developers Conference: “IBM demonstrated a host of newly designed wireless device
prototypes. They included digital jewelry; a watch with a high
resolution display; a Linux watch running a Bluetooth protocol software stack; an
MP3 player wirelessly connected to an IBM Microdrive via Bluetooth; and flip phones
equipped with a special mirror and magnification optics to provide a full-size display.”