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.

Slashdot reviews and discusses Programming Perl, 3rd Edition: “While the previous editions were exceptionally well-written references, they were also aimed squarely at experienced programmers. This edition pushes back the starting blocks somewhat, providing a gentler introduction to the world of Perl. The wealth of new information is staggering, but as you’d expect from the luminous authors, even the core language reference is highly readable and entertaining.”

Software maker Inktomi Corp. Tuesday released the latest version of its Traffic Server, but with a twist — the revised caching product supports the much ballyhooed Linux operating system. Full story at InternetNews.

From a press release posted at All Linux Devices: “Embedded Linux development just got easier. Embedded Planet(tm) today announced the availability of Linux Planet 1.2, its next-generation application development platform supporting embedded Linux. A true out-of-the-box solution – combining hardware, firmware and software in a complete package-Linux Planet 1.2 offers the first Linux-based development platform utilizing Motorola embedded PowerPC and featuring USB host & slave capability.”

OSDEM.org announces that the Open Source and Free Software Developer’s European Meeting will take place in Brussels on February 3 & 4. “The OSDEM is meant to be an event during which open source developers can meet, exchange idea, present their upcoming software. If you are a developer, you should be interested as it will make you meet fellow programmers in real life.”

Kevin Reichard at LinuxPlanet reports: “Hoping to leverage its success on the desktop, VMware is bringing its multiple-OS technology to the
server field with two new products designed for corporate and enterprise users.

VMware technology allows multiple OSes to run simultaneously on the same Intel-based machine, so a
user could boot Linux and then run Windows applications on another virtual PC.”