LinuxPlanet follows up on a CNet report this week, saying that Red Hat officer Michael Tiemann claimed his company started the Open Source revolution. From LinuxPlanet: “To some in the community, the quote indicated the worst they’ve ever
suspected of Red Hat, revealing a ‘Microsoftian’ lapse into editing the
historical record. Others of a more charitable disposition decided to wait and
see what Tiemann had to say for himself.

‘I was a little bit disappointed [Shankland] took that tack, because I think
he was focusing on the wrong point,’ said Tiemann.

‘Red Hat, Inc. is the company that really did start the commercial open
source revolution.’ “

Impera Corporation announced it
will close its subsidiary known as LinuxComponents.com and will lay off its
staff of eight people.

All orders placed with the site before Oct. 3 will still be shipped. The press release is at LinuxPR.

From an article at LinuxLookup.com: “I know almost nobody uses floppies anymore but if you happen to be in a situation where you have to this will help you. I’m talking about the mtools which is usually packed with every distribution of Linux.” — Submitted by an Anonymous Reader.

If you want to use Linux as the basis of a real-time application, there are a
great many options you can choose from in order to enhance the real-time
responsiveness of Linux. Given the somewhat bewildering variety of
alternatives, LinuxDevices.com has created the Real-time Linux Quick
Reference Guide, which we hope will assist you in locating Linux-based
solutions that match your system requirements. Read the press release at LinuxPR.

Entera is currently providing a preview of the beta version of TeraEDGE
Linux, the world’s first commercial content delivery server on the Linux OS
platform. Entera built TeraEDGE with special patented technologies that
allow it to intelligently cache proxy streaming media as well as static content.

Read the press release at LinuxPR.

The Slashdot community debates a claim that a Windows 2000 IIS based machine can handle more hits than a Linux 6.2 Apache based machine.

Jabber.com, a subsidiary of Webb Interactive
Services, today announced it has reached a
multi-faceted instant messaging (IM) training and certification agreement with
Kaivo, a leading open source solutions provider. The agreement creates the
first Jabber Instant Message Training Program and Certified Developers
Network. Check out the press release at LinuxPR.

Cyberconcepts, Inc. today announced the
opening of OpenSource Solutions (www.opensource-solutions.net ). The
company’s newest division will specialize in supporting the ever-popular
Linux operating system and other free open-source software systems. The press release is at LinuxPR.

Frpm a CNet story: “Linux long has been criticized for not being able to tap into the potential power of large
servers, but programmers have begun taking early steps to push it onto these high-end
machines.

The next version of the core of Linux, the 2.4 kernel, is up and running on Sun Microsystems’ top-end
E10000 server with 24 processors, Linuxcare chief technology officer Dave Sifry said today.”

KDE Dot News reports that KDE has won the Linux
Community Award 2000 at LWE in Frankfurt, Germany. Pictures are available, including a shot of the KDE team with none
other than Linus himself.