ZDNet reports on IBM’s claim to an optical chip breakthrough and its partnership with Kymata, a Scottish semiconductor manufacturer, to build the new chips.

Linux Weekly News has Alan Cox’ email releasing Linux kernel 2.2.18pre20.

From PR Newswire: Lineo, a provider of embedded systems, real-time and high availability
Linux-based solutions, hasannounced the availability of Lineo Availix Clustering 1.1, a solution providing
customers with non-stop access to mission critical services. Availix Clustering is based on the Linux operating
system and on the CompactPCI hardware architecture, providing high availability, redundancy, reliability and
scalability for network servers.

KDE Dot News has an announcement that the second public beta of Kivio is now available from
theKompany.com. Most major distributions are available and so is the source.
License is now officially GPL.

From a Business Wire press release: LynuxWorks and Metro Link today announced
that Metro Link’s X Window System extension, Metro-Media, is now running on BlueCat Linux,
bringing multimedia functionality to embedded applications.

KDE.org profiles KDE developer Rik Hemsley: “Day-to-day I look hard at KDE in general and try to find ways we can improve it. I usually
investigate problems first, talking to those who are responsible or have good
knowledge of a subject area. I then try to work with people to find solutions. This yields
better results than simply filing bug reports.”

From a press release at LWN.net: Terra Soft Solutions, Inc., the leading
developer of Linux solutions for PowerPC microprocessors, has announced
a collaborate effort with OpenDocs Publishing to produce a 300+ page book
for Terra Soft’s next release, Yellow Dog Linux 2.0.

From LinuxPR: Linux2order.com, the Web-based
company that offers the Internet’s largest selection of the most current Linux
applications and utilities, has launched Priority Download, designed to
provide users with access to all of its software, at download speeds up to
110Kbps.

“Recently, I was given the chance to get my hands on a brand new Dell
Inspiron 4000. Can you guess what the first thing I did was? If you
guessed, ‘Format that filthy Windows partition and install Linux on that
baby!’ then you are dead right. The contents of this review is a detailed
synopsis of my experience with Linux on the Dell Inspiron 4000 C600GT
laptop, how compatible it was as a whole, as well as my general thoughts on
it….”

LinuxLookup.com takes you step by step through their experiences installing
Linux on a Dell 4000 C600GT, and how the unit shapes up overall.
— Submitted by an Anonymous Reader

From LinuxPR: Sanchez Computer
Associates Inc., announced today the company’s
Greystone Group, a technology division of Sanchez, has made its
M database technology available to GNU/Linux-based
users as open source freeware. GT.M is a robust,
high-performance, multi-paradigm database engine, and is a
proven platform for building high-throughput database applications
for both host-based and client/server architectures.