IBM Japan Ltd. announced it will install its “e
server xSeries,” Linux-based servers, at outlets of major convenience store chain
operator Lawson Inc, reports AsiaBizTech.

Xybernaut Corporation announced today that the Republic of Taiwan has granted the company
its second patent in Taiwan for wearable computing and communications systems, from PRNewswire. The Xybernaut product line features the Mobile Assistant IV, which runs
all major PC operating systems, such as Windows 98/2000/NT, Linux and SCO
UNIX.

Tivoli has started shipping the latest version of its Tivoli
Storage Network Manager, the first to incorporate the new ANSI T11 storage area networking (SAN) discovery
and management standards, and, reports CRN on TechWeb News, Computer Associates is now shipping
NetWare and Linux versions of its ARCserve 7.0
data-protection management suite.

Linux Today article focuses on two examples of
things that can be done more conveniently in hardware than in
software: Specialized/programmable keypads, and removable disk
drive enclosures.

“Good software is rarely the result of brilliant programming, despite the mythos that has grown up around the activity. Most often, good software results from good design, good planning, and strict attention to detail: all those things
programmers find boring and not-fun. So, as developers, we have a choice to
make: have lots of fun producing mediocre (or downright bad) software, or
put up with some tedium and produce good software”, concludes this article from LinuxProgramming.

LinuxPlanet reviews window manager Enlightenment 0.16 and proclaims, “you can quickly see this is no ordinary window manager.”

Indrema’s forthcoming game console may be clearest example yet of the Open Source model — and Linux specifically — not being ideal for every situation, proclaims this article from All Linux Devices.

Bad stock market conditions or not, they’re doing it! Read the press release. ALso, check out the Slashdot discussion of the IPO.

“Lineo(TM), Inc., and IDT, Inc.,
today announced the availability of Lineo’s flagship embedded product,
Embedix(TM), on IDT’s RC32334(TM) integrated processor, featuring a 32-bit
MIPS(R) instruction set architecture (ISA). This initial joint development
effort provides a validated Linux kernel on the RC32334 in conjunction with
drivers for PCI-based communications peripherals that interface directly to
the RC32334 via the component’s on-chip PCI bus interface.” From prnewswire.com

“Venture capitalist and cyberguru
Esther Dyson and four other
directors will step down from
the board of directors of the
controversial Internet
Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers after the
nonprofit group’s next
meeting, ICANN announced
late last week.” Story at The Standard.