The announcement is posted on LWN.net: “The first milestone for LSB test development is now complete. This has
been in setting up the test framework for integrating tests into. The
framework adopted is the Test Environment Toolkit, with the VSXgen
(generic VSX test framework) layered on top of that. As proof of concept
the first testsets, the LSB-VSX and LSB-FHS testsets have been integrated
into the framework.”

From a press release on BusinessWire: Codemesh is porting its
JunC++ion product to several UNIX platforms. Soon, UNIX programmers will be able to use this patent pending
technology to get Java and C++ programs to work together in one process.

Perl.com has an article about programming GNOME applications in Perl. You can “create really neat applications,” but there’s no documentation available.

ABC News reviews Sony’s PictureBook C1VN: ” The first computer to feature Transmeta’s Crusoe chip, Sony’s PictureBook C1VN is quirky, classy, flashy and entirely remarkable. The PictureBook isn’t for everyone — but it’s a sure conversation-starter.”

LinuxDefices has a primer on Red Hat’s RedBoot: “RedBoot is a new embedded system debug/bootstrap environment from Red Hat. It is
designed to replace the existing debug/boot tools CygMon and GDB stubs. It provides a
complete bootstrap environment, including network downloading and debugging. It also
provides a simple flash file system for boot images.” Here’s a related story, also at Linux Devices.

KDE Dot News reports that the group “Norsk MÃ¥lungdom, which works with promoting the
Norwegian (Nynorsk) language, asks Norwegian schools to boycott Microsoft
products and use KDE instead. MS Windows and Office only exist in the Norwegian
(Bokmål) language, but Norwegian law states that pupils have the right to books and
equipment in their own language.”

ISP World publishes an interview with Dirk Hohndel, the CTO of the “Red Hat of Europe.” He says: “SuSE Linux is known to be one of the richest and most complete
versions of Linux, so almost all the important packages are there. One
of the interesting new features is that SuSE Linux 7.0 can be installed
and used using Braille; it can therefore be used and managed by the
visually impaired.”

The announcement is at LWN.net: “This is just to give folks something to sync against. Test it by all means
however.”

The instant messaging service, which ZDNet calls “the Napster of instant messaging,” has introduced a souped-up version, saying “it lets users of different instant messaging platforms communicate with each other, plus swap and share files.”

Slashdot readers react to an interview with Indrema founder John Gildred about the
Linux-based console system his company plans to introduce.