The Bloomberg News is reporting, the standard would be publicly available and open to improvement by other software developers, a general policy long advocated by IBM but, until now, not by Microsoft.

Alta Terra Ventures Corp. announced today that the MaxOS Linux operating system is now available for consumer purchase through the company’s online e-store at www.maxos.com, from Canadian NewsWire.

AMD today introduced the 750MHz AMD Duron processor, once again
setting the standard for business and home users in the value PC space, reports AMDZone.

This article from the International Free Computing Task Force answers the question “What is the Cygnus tree?”

PRNewswire announces the release of JBuilder 4, the only enterprise productivity environment that supports Enterprise Java Bean 1.1 compliant development on Windows, Linux, and Solaris platforms.

Linux Today article concerning making Qt available under the GPL and the affects on the free software community.

Seattle P-I.com reports that the Exodus
plant will consume enough power for a small town and eventually house Internet
servers for firms such as Avenue A, Microsoft and Onvia.com.

ZDCOUK.com reports that, while a recent patent infringement suit filed against 3Dfx has
heated things up a little and nVidia’s involvement in Microsoft’s
Xbox project is a definite coup, it’s the firm’s decision to go after
alternative markets that could well be the decisive blow.

Carl Manning, a graduate student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has collected about
$700 by peddling advice about the Java programming language, reports SiliconValley.com. He does business on a
Web site that’s a lot like eBay — except instead of baseball cards and vacation packages,
this site’s users swap technical advice and software code.

Newsforge reader Sensei clued us in on this howto at Linuxnewbie.org: “FREESCO (stands for FREEciSCO) is a free replacement for commercial routers supporting up to 3 ethernet/arcnet/arlan network cards or up to 2 modems. With FreeSCO you will be able to get your entire home or office LAN connected to the Internet via a single xDSL or Cable connection using either a static or dynamic IP address.”