One of the chip maker’s biggest investors includes Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, whose Vulcan Ventures investment vehicle currently holds a 7 percent stake equal to 3,954,333 shares, Reuters reports. Transmeta, based in Santa Clara, Calif., has applied for a Nasdaq listing under the symbol “TMTA” and will have the IPO jointly managed by Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and Deutsche Banc Alex Brown.
In other news: Transmeta has begun shipping its latest notebook chip, the Crusoe 5600 processor to computer makers, CNet
reports.

From a BBC story: A group of captive chimps in Spain have started to purée their food. This is the first known case of chimps preparing food purely to please their palettes. “They’ve started this behaviour in this case because they’re captive and have more time and are bored,” said chimp expert Dr. Jane Goodall.

Intel Corporation and its Dialogic subsidiary have announced the availability of its Linux application development kit. With platform support for this mainstream operating system, Dialogic enables the Linux developer community to create robust voice-based Internet and e-Commerce applications like voice portals, multimedia messaging and Web-enabled contact centers, said a press release on LinuxPR.

“If logs are a peek at your system’s private diaries, then the /proc filesystem (or pseudo-filesystem, since it doesn’t really exist) is a means of looking into the very soul of your system.” — from Linux’s Tell-Tale Heart, Part 6 at Linux Journal.

Informix Corporation has announced that the Informix Dynamic Server.2000 database engine running with SuSE Linux on Compaq Computer Corporation Alpha processor is now available for customer shipments, according to LinuxPR. This new release of IDS.2000 is an effort to bring the power and memory capacity of Compaq’s 64-bit Alpha system to the Linux market place.

NeTraverse has a announced the October 2000 availability of the 2.0 release of Win4Lin Desktop, which allows Linux users to run popular Windows applications such as MS Office, Quicken and Lotus out of the box at native speeds, according to a press release from Business Wire.

From Infoworld’s LinuxWorld wrapup: “Two years ago, it was just a hobbyists operating system, but it’s not for just hobbyists anymore,” said Jerry Deruntz, a senior CAD systems engineer at Lattice Semiconductor.

MaximumLinux covers Eric S. Raymond’s “selling Linux to the boss” speech at LinuxWorld: “The problem with ‘free software’ is it sounds far too ambiguous,” Raymond says. “They think free sounds shotty, worthless and some even think ‘communist’.”

Slower growth in Unix contributes to a flagging stock price the day after Hewlett-Packard’s third quarter earnings report, Upside.com reports.

Linuxlab releases streamlined server Linux

Several Linuxlab press releases hit LinuxPR Thursday. Among them: Linuxlab announced the release of its version 1.0 server operating system, designed as a fast reliable server operating system.
Also, the company agreed to a strategic alliance with Red Flag Software of China to develop and market Linux software.
In addition, the company announced its new 800 MHz ThinRackTM 4-in-1 server configuration. When combined with the Linuxlab FarManTM management software, the new 4-in-1 provides an advanced Linux-based server-clustering solution.
Finally, Linuxlab introduced EasyMailer, a Web-based e-mail server enabling Palm personal digital assistants to access e-mail services from a simple browser.