A Linuxdevices.com article talks about how VTech’s Helio low-cost PDA, which now uses the proprietary VT-OS, can run on Linux.

From BSD Today: “BSDi announced today the immediate availability of
BSD/OS Version 4.2 Internet Server Edition. The latest BSD/OS release supports Java 2 Standard
Edition and incorporates the KAME IPv6 and IPsec implementations.”

Business 2.0 asks the question: “How long will it be before a Net business is run on only open source software? Bolstered by high-profile company adoption, Linux is expected soon to outpace all
competitors (except Windows), expanding its market share by 25 percent annually,
according to IDC. The open source Apache Webserver now helps run 60 percent of the
Web sites on the Internet, according to Netcraft. But despite these gains, most analysts
and programmers contend that it’s not yet feasible to build a company’s entire business
platform on open source software. Some also argue that recent announcements in software
development call into question whether source code will even be relevant in the future.”

SuSE Linux today announced a new strategic partnership with SGI. The terms of the agreement include an equity investment in SuSE Linux Corporation from SGI, and the cooperative development, deployment and support of the Linux operating system and infrastructure code. Full press release at Linux PR. Here’s a story from The Register.

Eazel, what an InfoWorld story calls “one of the shining hopes” for Linux to establish itself on corporate desktops, will show off the latest version of its Nautilus graphical environment next week, plus announce a partnership with Dell Computer.

Is it possible to be both big and efficient? LinuxWorld answers the question with a side-by-side review and comparison of Netscape versions 4.75 and 6.

PRNewswire announces that in their continued efforts to
bring migration relief to Microsoft developers, Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL)
and Sun Microsystems Inc. will host a series of e-Seminars that will
demonstrate using the Oracle(R) Migration Workbench to
migrate from Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 or Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 running on
Windows NT to Oracle8i on Sun Solaris.

“Like many of the latest crop of viruses, WM97/Afeto spreads via e-mail, changing
its appearance to avoid detection. Once executed on a host PC, the virus violates
user’s privacy by searching for JPEG format files, and sending the first one found
to other PCs.” From SFPress.com.

Ananova reports that police in Brazil have detained a computer criminal who
used President Fernando Henrique Cardoso’s e-mail
account to impersonate the Brazilian president.

ZDCOUK reports that Opera Software plans to introduce a free version
of Opera for Windows, according to industry sources. The new
release, expected to be christened Opera 5 for Windows, could
be supported by ads, rather than by the $39 (about £27) per copy
fee that the Norwegian software vendor currently charges for its
browser.