Tomshardware.com has a review of the Pentium 4 processor including comparisons to AMD’s Athlon and
benchmarks for compiling the Linux kernel.

From PR Newswire: SGI today
announced the installation of a Linux-OS-based solution for bioinformatics
computing at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, one of the world’s
leading diversified global health and personal care companies. Working
together with Incyte Genomics, Inc., SGI Global Services
delivered a bioinformatics solution that allows Bristol-Myers Squibb to
increase its raw computing power, deploy new scientific applications for Linux
environments and extend technology investments by increasing productivity and
reducing hardware and administrative costs.

From LinuxPR: Bruce Momjian, vice president of
database development for Great Bridge LLC, has been named a featured
speaker at the fall 2000 Linux Conference in Japan, a hotbed for open source
technologies. Momjian will discuss the history of PostgreSQL, the world’s most
advanced open source database system, which thousands of Japanese
businesses already use as core infrastructure for their Web-based applications.

From LinuxPR: The LinuxDevices.com Embedded Linux GUI/Windowing Quick Reference
Guide is a comprehensive guide to support for the graphics requirements of
Embedded Linux based systems and devices. The guide covers the full range of
embedded system alternatives to standard desktop software components,
including low-level drivers, graphics servers, windowing enviroments, GUI
toolkits, and browsers.

Linux World has a review of Embedded System’s Linux-based Internet appliance, which uses wizards to simplify installation for small business.

“Ebiz Enterprises announced Monday plans to acquire Jones Business Systems, a Linux server seller, in a
deal valued around $6.2 million. JBSI, based in Houston, sells Unix, Linux and Windows 2000 computers and services. The acquisition bolsters Ebiz’s
effort to join the ranks of the better-known Linux companies such as Red Hat and VA Linux Systems.” CNet follows up on earlier reports.

“Don’t toss VA Linux onto the
ever-growing trash pile of Net stocks that were once mighty.
This company still has a good business plan, an admirable
market niche, and a big pile of cash to keep it running until it reaches profitability, which should
be sometime before the end of 2001. Despite that first-quarter sales hiccup, this company’s
revenues are still impressive.” Business Week has the column. (VA Linux owns NewsForge.)

From PR Newswire: Key3Media Group, Inc.
announced today that LINUX Business Expo-Las Vegas has completed its first
full year of existence with record growth. LINUX Business Expo debuted in
1999 at COMDEX/Fall. Since its inception, LINUX Business Expo has grown from
17,700 square feet to more than 40,000 square feet. The growth of LINUX
Business Expo is a reflection of the tremendous growth within the Linux
community, especially in embedded systems.

From PR Newswire: Continuing to simplify the customer
experience for the New IT, Compaq Computer Corp. has announced
the availability of ProLiant servers pre-installed with Red Hat
Linux 7.0 on the ultra-thin ProLiant DL360 and the ProLiant ML330 server
models. The new ProLiant server configurations with pre-installed Linux
provide customers the added convenience of purchasing the server and operating
system (OS) from one source as well as providing a single, consolidated
service and support license to enable the easy deployment of new Linux
servers.

From Business Wire: Aladdin Knowledge Systems, a global leader in the field of Internet
content and software security, today announced the release of HASP CD9, the latest software for the HASP4 hardware-based software protection
system that offers high-level security for Linux developers, as well as new ease-of-use features.