LinuxPR announces: “This month, Allan Dante examines WinLinux 2000, a Linux OS using your
existing DOS partition and uses a Windows installation and configuration
program to do it, reading system information about your hardware that
Windows has already been able to gather to help take the guesswork out of
things.”

“While most PDA enthusiasts are embroiled in profound discussions about which
handheld operating system — Palm OS, Windows CE or Epoc — is better,
others are exploring a much different route to PDA nirvana. Linux, the open
source operating system that’s made tremendous inroads in the Web server
world, is beginning to show up in PDAs as well.” From Brighthand.com.

Wired reports: “A year ago, Linux distributor Red Hat was the darling of Wall Street and investors who got in on its IPO. On Monday, it announced it was closing its San Francisco office.”

From LinuxPR: Caldera Systems, Inc., a “Linux
for Business” leader, today named Edgie E. Donakey to the position of vice
president and chief of staff. Donakey had served as Caldera’s director of
international marketing and director of the mergers and acquisitions team
since February 2000. In his new position, Donakey oversees the successful
integration of mergers and acquisitions and acts as part of the Office of the
CEO.

“Over the last couple of years, Linux has gone from being an obscure operating system to one of the
most talked-about developments in the computing world. You now see Linus Torvalds on TV, Red
Hat Linux in your local software store, and articles in the mainstream press about the challenge
Linux poses to Microsoft. Meanwhile, software developers have long been interested in Linux for a
variety of reasons, but mainly because of its openness.” Dr. Dobbs Journal reports.

From LinuxNews.com: “When the Mac OS X was released over the summer, questions about Darwin’s continued
necessity sprouted like grass throughout news threads and mailing groups. But Ernie
Prabhakar, Darwin’s open source product manager, believes that the post OS X surge is only
the beginning for Darwin–and Apple’s partnership with the open source community.”

Newsforge’s Anonymous Reader writes: “In a continuation of last week’s Tip of the Week, this week we’ll try to
improve and expand on the same idea. Rather than setting up a shell
alias, we’ll use the current prompt to set the title. I like the idea a lot, and
it’s something I hadn’t thought of. One major advantage it has is being
more universal – the prompt gets displayed after every command, so it will
always have the proper current directory to use.
Read the full tip at LinuxLookup.com ”

LinuxPr goes on to say, “The Motif toolkit is used by corporate developers to create custom, mission
critical applications that are not available “off-the-shelf.” When a Boeing
airplane flies, a financial transaction is performed on Wall Street, a subway
train of the Boston MBTA or San Francisco’s BART is switched onto the
right track, a network communication problem is diagnosed and bypassed
by US West, a family is entertained by the latest animated movie from Walt
Disney or Dreamworks, a US defense system built by Lockheed is tested in
a drill or real combat, or a spacecraft is launched into space by NASA, the
custom software that made it all possible probably employed the Motif
toolkit to build the user interface.”

ZDNET reports that the Apache Software Foundation on Monday released
the beta version of Batik 1.0, a toolkit that allows
developers to work with the Scalable Vector Graphics
specification on the Java platform.

Wired News reports: “Linux distributor Red Hat Inc. is closing its San Francisco office, laying off nearly half the staff there and offering the remaining employees jobs at other locations.” The company says the layoffs are due to redundancy created by recent acquisitions and have nothing to do with any corporate troubles.