ZDNet announces two new books in the “Embedded Linux Quick Reference Guide” series.

EE Times reports on
Verisity Design releasing a
new version of its SureLint Verilog linting tool that supports
user-defined checks, better Finite State Machine and race
condition checks, and improved checks compliant with the
Reuse Methodology Manual. SureLint runs on Linux and Unix.

A story at InfoWorld has Michael Lambert, v.p. of Dell’s enterprise systems group as saying the company is devoted to Microsoft. “Linux is strong in our application space, but Windows will continue to be the predominant [operating system].”

Bloomberg News (on CNet) reports that Toshiba, the world’s top laptop maker, hasn’t decided whether to use Transmeta’s Crusoe
chips in its notebooks.

From PR Newswire: VMware, Inc. announced today the
formation of its Preferred Hardware Partner Program. Founding partners in the
program include Compaq Computer Corp. (NYSE: CPQ), Dell, IBM (NYSE: IBM), and
VA Linux Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: LNUX). (VA Linux owns NewsForge.)

From PR Newswire: CodeWeavers, Inc., the leading
Windows-to-Linux software developer and consultancy, announced today the
unveiling of two Web sites designed to greatly assist anyone interested in
migrating Windows applications to the Linux operating system. The
first, wine.codeweavers.com , is a development site providing a broad range of
tools, information, and other resources for programmers and hackers involved
with the commercial-quality version of Wine, the premier open-source
Windows-to-Linux conversion software. The second, http://www.codeweavers.com , a new
version of the CodeWeavers corporate web site, offers new service information,
industry links, technology updates, and much more.

From LinuxPR: ActiveState, the leading provider of Internet programming software and
services, and XMLFund, the first XML technology investment fund, have
partnered to develop an integrated development environment for XSLT to
work with Microsoft’s Visual Studio.NET and with ActiveState’s Mozilla-based
environment, Komodo. The XSLT IDE will be cross-platform and will enable
programmers to debug XSL transformations.

CBS News reports that the “new e-mail distributed
computer virus that calls its
computer victims ‘idiot'” and
promotes Windows users to switch
to the Linux operating system” seems to be losing steam after hitting hundreds of, well, unsmart Windows users.

CNet follows up on earlier reports of VA (which owns NewsForge) launching a SourceForge for companies program: “VA Linux Systems originally developed SourceForge, a Web site for open-source programmers, as a way
to save money. Now it has become a way to make money.

VA started SourceForge to make it affordable to house open-source projects — collective programming projects such
as the Linux operating system, in which the underlying programming instructions are shared freely.”

“…the Web is based on transcendence, on being out of oneself, on going towards a something more, something beyond ourselves. This transcendence also characterizes the movement of spirit. The new Web metaphysics is fundamentally spiritual.”If this had been written by anyone other than David Weinberger, you’d probably tune it out as background noise, but as it is, you’re inexplicably compelled by a deep primal urge to visit his JOHO site for the full essay–garym