The NetBSD Mission is pleased to announce another release of NetBSD available in a shrink-wrapped CD-ROM set. NetBSD 1.5 CD sets can be pre-ordered through DaemonNewsMall and will ship as soon as they are available. You can also still purchase NetBSD 1.4.2 CD sets (in paper sleeves).

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InfoWorld reports: “Chello Broadband and Excite@Home have abandoned plans to merge, the companies announced Tuesday. The transaction had been “complex, with a number of difficult business issues to resolve,” said Mark Schneider, chairman and chief executive officer of Chello’s parent company, United Pan-Europe Communications. Schneider said the parties “worked hard” to resolve the issues, but were unable to reach an agreement.”

“ZapMe! Corp., a company that gave schools free computers and Internet access in exchange for the right to display online advertisements, has told 2,300 schools nationwide that they must either give back the equipment, or start paying for it. The company is now focused on providing high-speed Internet access to corporate clients.” Full story at MSNBC.

Information Week reports: “Maybe it’s all those hungry programmers working late at night. Whatever the reason, pizza chains have been among the early adopters of Linux for point-of-sale applications.”

From Network Computing: “Administrators reluctant to roll out Linux in the enterprise because of manageability worries will have to find another excuse once word gets out that Caldera Volution offers secure remote management of heterogeneous Linux systems. Caldera Systems Caldera Volution, an object-oriented management tool that leverages an LDAP-compliant directory, extends directory schemata to include Volution objects and builds relationships between those objects by creating or changing links among them.”

LinuxDevices.com reports that the AbsoluteX open source development toolkit is now available for download. “AbsoluteX, unveiled at the recent Atlanta Linux Showcase, is an X-Window developer toolkit created by Epitera to streamline and facilitate the process of developing customized GUIs for the Linux operating system. “

From Wired News: “Two-and-a-half years after five bigwig companies formed what is today the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, there are over 2,000 member companies developing Bluetooth products. But currently, only IBM and Toshiba PC cards are available on the market. And the applications? Well, so far they’re limited.”

ZDNet News reports: “Developers are making the transistion to Mac OS X, but few predict their products will be ready when the new OS ships. One exception? Microsoft.”

From Linux.com: “Ah, the holidays. Time for family, friends and package management. How does the virtual family of Linux distributions stack up to your relatives?”

“It slices, it dices, it’s the step between having an IP address like 198.186.203.55 and a cool name like Linux.com! It’s called DNS, a distributed internet domain name ervice that resolves names to numbers. Chris Campbell, Project Manager of Linux.com’s Sysadmin section, shows you how to migrate your Windows NT DNS to Linux.” More at Linux.com.