From a column at ZDNet: “(Reverse engineering) sounds backwards. It sounds devious. But it is about analysis: taking things apart, potentially breaking them, to find out how they work; opening up the hood, seeing what parts are inside and how they are connected. And, although it sounds somewhat less noble than ‘engineering,’ the world needs reverse engineers and needs them badly.”

AbriaSoft, the first distribution of MySQL based database
solutions for the Internet, announced
today its release of the Abria App Pack, an application package
containing popular Open Source applications that are commonly used in
conjuncture with MySQL database, from Internet Wire.

One of the ripple effects of the Microsoft investment in Corel was a
potential change in the status of Wine, surmises LinuxPlanet, a technology that Corel had
mightily championed and used as the underlying technology for its
release of Corel WordPerfect Office 9.

32BitsOnline reviews Xi Graphics’ Accelerated-X laptop display server.

Red Hat previews GTK+ version 2.0’s advantages for users and programmer.

Bringing Linux gamers the most comprehensive testing of 3D cards in Linux, vows this article on LinuxGames.com.

Salon News proclaims, forget Napster and
Gnutella, Jim
McCoy’s Mojo
Nation is the coolest
file-trading service
on the Net.

Built on open source technology, Intel’s NetStructureTM 1010 and 1020
hosting appliances will now package the Knox Software’s flagship product, Arkeia, from Linux PR.

Linux PR announces, on October 28, the Simi Conejo Linux Users’ Group will be hosting
LUG Fest III in Simi Valley, Calif.

Synopsys Inc. this week will announce the
availability of Design Compiler and other popular chip
design tools for the open-source operating system, a
move that opens the door for the widespread adoption of
Linux as the No. 2 EDA platform and very possibly
writes the epitaph for Windows NT in chip design, from EE Times News.