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

It’s at PR Newswire: BSDi, the leader in
Internet infrastructure-grade solutions, announced today the company has
received an investment totaling $4 million from several Japanese strategic
partners led by GLQ Entrepia Inc., the venture capital arm of Nissho Iwai
American Corporation.

LinuxSecurity.com.br has the story: “A few
years ago I was looking for Linux security documentation, and couldn’t find
any online or in books. That was when I started writing the LASG, which
steadily spiraled out of control (I think it ended up like 200+ pages long).
Then I got my current job with SecurityPortal and of course I started doing
it full time, over a year ago and haven’t looked back since.”

From Business Wire:
DevelopOnline Corp., leading in collaborative Web-based electronic product
development, Tuesday announced the appointments of three additional executives.
Joining the staff as chief technology officer is David Mandala, who most recently was senior engineering director of Linuxcare.
Joining DevelopOnline as vice president of sales is Michael C. Dillon, a former Fortune 50 executive who brings more than 30 years of focused
sales and marketing experience to DevelopOnline.
Joining the staff as PR director is Sara Killingsworth, who most recently operated Marketing Services, her own media relations consulting
company.