LinuxDevices.com has posted an interview with Gregg Haerr, CEO of Century Software and founder of the Microwindows project on the past, present, and future of embedded Linux GUIs.

LinuxNovice.org has posted a cheat sheet for the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam.

From a press release at LinuxPR: “The LinuxUser 2000 Conference, which is to be held next week (5/6th December) at Chelsea Village, London, will include a free exhibition. IT professionals and managers who want an appreciation of the role Linux can play in their organisation are expected to benefit greatly from the event.” Registration is also free.

According to this press release, Digital Networks is the first OEM in the world to ship Pentium 4 computers with Linux (Red Hat) installed.

ParaSoft announced the availability of Jtest for Linux, their unit-testing tool for Java. The tool can perform static analysis, white-box testing, black box testing, and regression testing on any Java class. Read the press release at Linux PR.

Archaeopteryx Software today released version 1.0 final of the Wing Integrated Development Environment for Python. Wing IDE is a Linux-only product featuring a full graphical debugger, source code analyzer and browser, source code editor, and project manager. Get the demo at the developer’s Web site.

Conectiva Linux 6.0 is now available directly from the developer’s Web site; shrink-wrapped editions should show up sometime next month at a computer store near you. The latest version sports a rewritten Modular Installer, USB support, and introduces Grub as a replacement for lilo. Read the press release at Linux PR for more information.

Pilot Online reports that the city of Virginia Beach paid Microsoft $129,000 after the municipality could not find licenses for 826 of the Microsoft products it uses. Add to that fine — or licensing correction fee — an estimated $81,000 in staff time during the month long records inspection.

LinuxPlanet’s Michael Hall evaluates Linux security packages with graphical front ends. “We took a look at a pair of GUI-based firewalling solutions for Linux: one a commercial offering from Stormix Technologies (Storm Firewall), and the other a free software project that integrates with the GNOME desktop (Firestarter). Both provide graphical front-ends to ipchains, taking some of the pain out of building tailor-made firewalls for home networks.”

Slashdot readers discuss an article in the Java Developers Journal that talks about tensions between the Java and Linux communities.