The LinuxOrbit Newbie test-drives GnuCash, the open source financial software. “Anyone familiar with General Ledger and Journal Voucher entries will feel right at home with this software. GnuCash can handle that load fairly easily.”

Forbes.com weighs in with its accounting of Microsoft’s curious legal strategy during this weeks’ appeal of the antitrust ruling.

IT Reviews recently tested the most recent distributions of Corel, Mandrake, RedHat, SuSE, and TurboLinux. “You might think that if the Linux kernel is the same, each distribution will be the same. However, our tests show that nothing could be further from the truth. Each distribution has a particular target audience, and the configuration, including software, manuals and support, varies accordingly.”

MSNBC reports that over two months have passed since U.S. Ninth Circuit Court judges heard oral arguments in the recording industry’s lawsuit against Napster. Some Ninth Circuit regulars say the delay may spell disaster for the plaintiffs.

iMimic Networking announced a license agreement for its Web caching software with Korea’s Cintel Co. At the heart of iMimic’s caching software is its DataReactor core technology, which runs on BSD and Linux platforms. More information at Business Wire.

At PR Newswire, LSI Logic talks up its recent Comdex demonstration of Intel’s next-generation Itanium processors and its SCSI controllers on a development platform that ran in a Linux environment.

“The first annual SGI Global Developer Conference on IRIX and Linux will be held at the Hyatt Regency in Burlingame, Calif., on March 19-22, 2001. The conference is targeted to software developers who create solutions for the technical and creative users.” Read the PR Newswire press release.

According to ZD Net, BSD is likely to rival Linux for number of users soon, partly because of excitement about Darwin, “the fifth BSD.”

Linuxlookup.com has an advice column about naming your terminals, including a how-to description.

Motorola, Inc. and
Sega Corporation have signed an initial agreement that calls for Sega to
develop games for select Motorola next-generation multiple communication
phones. This alliance will allow consumers to play an assortment of Sega
games on Motorola’s new category of wireless devices. This marks the first time
Sega games can be played on a wireless phone. The press release is on Motorola’s Web site.