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.

A long UpsideToday interview with Michael Dell in which he says his company is number one in all kinds of areas and will be even number one-er in even more areas in the future, selling mostly Windows stuff — but a little Linux here and there, mostly on servers. (Disclosure: NewsForge is owned by VA Linux, a Dell competitor not mentioned in the interview.)

Psst! Yeah, you. Wanna get into Micorosft’s internal netowrk, maybe lay your hands on a couple of goodies like the source code for some of their software? Our friends at The Register tell you how in a flippant way that you can take seriously or not as you choose, even though the methods they speak of are certainly credible.

“After StarOffice, more source code made available. JYACC will open one
million lines of code of its Panther Open Source Software for Linux
environments this week,” says a
story at ZDNet.uk. “The drive to provide enterprise developers with robust Linux environments is
gathering momentum. JYACC, a New York-based enterprise software and
solutions company, will release this week the one million lines of code for its
POSSL (Panther Open Source Software for Linux) technology.”