Slashdot releases its winners of its Stupid Patent Content. The winner: Patent on Gratuitous Recognition Solicitation.

Microcross, Inc. is announcing its first product offering, X-Tools, which debut at the 4th Annual Linux Showcase in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 11, 2000. X-Tools is comprised of 21 target microprocessor software development tool suites that come packaged on one CD-ROM distribution; it is open source and ready-to-run on Linux, Solaris, and Windows host operating systems. The X-Tools software development system features an operating system independent solution, complete with IDE and 21 C/C++ compiler, assembler tool suites, for building embedded computer systems supporting non-desktop applications (i.e., telecommunications equipment, transportation systems, Internet infrastructure, consumer electronics, control automation, aerospace systems, etc.).

Microcross manufactures open source GNU Cross Tools and provides professional support services to embedded computer system developers. The company’s key product line is the X-Tools embedded software development system. For more information, please contact Microcross at www.microcross.com, via email to sales@microcross.com or by calling (478) 953-1907.

—Submitted by James Calvin

The event, originally scheduled for Oct. 22 to 26, will now be Jan. 21 to 23, 2001, at the Embassy Suites in Burlingame, Calif. A Plug Fest is a 2-3 day event in which major OEMs bring their latest and greatest
systems, and IHVs bring their components to test on all of the systems for compatibility.
This will be a distribution-neutral, platform neutral Linux Plug Fest, and we believe will be a
first in the Linux community. We will completely sponsor the event, managing all facility
requirements, scheduling and so forth. If you have any questions, contact Kirk Wells at Tel: (415) 354-4325; fax: (415) 701-7457; or email: plugfest@linuxcare.com. Here’s more information about the event.

Heavyweight Linux programmers are to award European
companies with prizes for helping the cause of open source
software in a newly announced set of awards, reports ZDNet UK News. (Full disclosure: NewsForge is owned by VA Linux.)

Business Wire: CynApps, the methodology
leader in C/C++ based design and verification, added to the EDA community’s open-source toolbox
today by making its Cyn++ macro preprocessor available under an open-source license at
(www.cynapps.com).

The site, for and by Web developers building sites on
Sun network computing platforms, reports PRNewswire, focuses on infrastructure, system design and
server-side technology used to build reliable, scalable and secure systems
which is critical for doing business on the Web.

The Indrema Developer Network (IDN) will allow today’s independent
game developers to access Software Development Kit tools and additional
information about the Indrema console — L600.
All Linux Devices reports,
in the near future, you will be able to create a game using our project
hosting facility through gameXchange. This project hosting environment will
provide you with tools that will smooth the collaborative game
development process.

Apache Today’s interview with Peter Cranstone about mod_gzip, an open
source server module that acts as an Internet content accelerator and seamlessly speeds up your site.

Linux PR: LinuxFreeSupport will be authoring ShowMeLinux’s ‘Support Line’. The
Support Line is a column offering answers to questions posed by readers
regarding such topics as installations, networking, administration,
applications, and the desktop.

A very early drop of the Ute-Linux base release has posted at
vger.timpanogas.org, reports Linux Weekly News. This release is free if accessed from the FTP
server and can be downloaded and redistributed under the terms of the
GPL for any purpose.