Here’s a technical article at O’Reilly about Adobe’s GoLive that includes some tidbits about what may a slight softening in Adobe’s attitude toward Linux and Open Source. We’d hardly call it an embrace, though.

In only three years of development, MandrakeSoft has positioned itself as
one of the three leading worldwide Linux producers & publishers. Since the
company recentered its focus on Linux in April 2001, and despite a
difficult economic climate, the company has achieved solid increase in
revenues and cost reductions.
In order to preserve the company’s growth while reaching the break-even
point before the end of the year, MandrakeSoft is currently conducting an
increase of capital with a special warrant system (“Rights Issue”) that is
available to all MandrakeSoft shareholders.

When the Mandrake Linux Users Club was launched, many people expressed
their desire to become MandrakeSoft shareholders but complained that it was
difficult to do so. With this new operation, it is a fairly easy process
for everyone to buy MandrakeSoft shares once a current shareholder agrees
to transfer his warrants.

Several shareholders have agreed to transfer their rights for the new stock
in priority to Club Members. This means that any Club member who is
interested in becoming a shareholder can buy MandrakeSoft shares at a
special fixed price. The process is very simple: just sign a form, send the
funds, and receive the new shares.

Since the number of warrants is not unlimited, and the operation is for a
limited time only, the rule is “first come, first served”.

Details of the operation are described here:
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/investors/bsa

For Club members, the process is described here:
http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=34&mode=nocomments

To learn more about the Club:
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/club/

More about MandrakeSoft’s position on the Linux market is available at:
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/investors/bsa/position

What is the value of MandrakeSoft? Many Questions/Answers about the offer
are available at:
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/investors/bsa/faq

I guess it depends on whether MS is a girl or a boy. Anyway, here’s another report at News.com about the Ralph Nader/James Love initiative to persuade the government to backdoor MS on the monopoly front. It makes so much sense, it’s one of those things that make you go hmm, why didn’t I think of that.

Mark Gilbert writes: “AbiWord 1.0.2 aka “Hold me, love me, embed me” is now available for
general consumption.

After extensive efforts at bugfixing as well as a few new features,
we’re proud to announce 1.0.2 as the latest release for pure
satisfaction. Developers are hacking away on the next big milestone and in the meantime we’ll continue to deliver solid dependability through 1.0.x releases.

Most notable:

+ AbiWord can now be embedded in other GNOME applications (Evolution, Gnumeric)
+ Internationalization support has undergone a great deal of work by both translaters and coders.
+ RTF and LaTeX import/export enhancements.
+ Bugs 3301, 3171, 3215, 2223, 3332.
+ Enhanced documentation.
+ Fixes and enhancements in the AbiGimp, AbiMagick, AbiPaint, and GDict plugins.

Full release notes are available at http://www.abisource.com/release-notes/1.0.2.html

We’d like to thank everyone who contributed to making AbiWord 1.0.2 a
rock solid, lightning fast, universal (as close as it gets anyway) word
processor.”

– By Grant Gross –

Linux news site LWN.net has been redesigned, with several changes under the hood intended to make adding new features easier and to bring more traffic to the site.
The new layout at LWN.net, launched last Friday, features a two-column layout and a new and improved back-end. “The old site was based on static HTML/PHP pages, while the new one is based on Python, Quixote, and Postgres,” says Jonathan Corbet, executive editor. “So it allows us to do things like user accounts, a great deal of user customization of the site, comment posting, a true security alert and vulnerability database, with more to come.”

All this is designed to bring in more readers and, by extension, more revenue. Since support from LWN was dropped by Tucows.com in October 2001, the site has been working on ways to increase revenue. LWN, launched in January 1998, was acquired by Tucows in April 2000.

After the “unacquisition,” LWN launched an email discussion list to talk about ways for the independent Linux site to make money. The list is still occasionally active, and Corbet says LWN is working on some revenue ideas.

“We’re doing better after our unacquisition — $0 isn’t too hard to beat,” he says. “But we have a long way to go yet. We have some ideas that we’re working on, mostly involving additional services that, we hope, people will be willing to pay for.”

LWN’s last redesign was in August 1998, when LWN moved from a single-page static format to multiple pages, and Corbet says the new design is getting mixed reviews, as changes often do. “We have not had the strong negative response that moving to the multi-page format created,” he says. “Only one person has called us ‘morons.’ Our initial stylesheet was somewhat heavy-handed,
but we’ve taken care of that.

“Quite a few readers are concerned that we have moved the Weekly Edition off
the front page; we will simply have to convince them that our Weekly content remains an important part of the site and is certainly not going away,” he adds.

One person on the mailing list asked for the old yellow color scheme back, but generally, those on the email list who pre-tested the site had positive things to say.

Another had this to say: “For the most part I like the new site, that said I really miss the links on the left side. It made my life MUCH easier when I was not at my own computer, all I had to remember was lwn.com/daily and I not only get the daily content but links to many of the other sites I visit. Please put them back or make a links page.”

LinuxDevices.com writes “Embedded software vendor LynuxWorks says the newest release of LynxOS,
their proprietary real-time operating system (RTOS), has achieved Linux ABI compatibility — allowing unmodified Linux application binaries to run within on LynxOS (without requiring recompilation). This whitepaper by Arun Subbarao, Director of Software Engineering for LynuxWorks, examines the architecture, technology, performance implications, and potential benefits of such an approach. Read it here.”

Red Hat has issued security advisories for XChat, GNU Ghostscript, bind and nss_ldap. More information in the following security advisories.

The New Zealand Herald reports that the newly formed New Zealand Open Source Society is trying to get Sun Microsystems’ StarOffice and OpenOffice into the country’s schools. ” Minister of Education Trevor Mallard said the StarOffice licensing offer had no implications for the $10 million education deal struck with Microsoft last year.

He said StarOffice was previously free for everyone, was already used in some schools, and was supported by the Ministry of Education’s ICT helpdesk.”

Jeff writes: Tuesday, June 4th, 2002, from the home of Wayne’s World, Aurora IL
Tonight LIVE on
www.thelinuxshow.com.
Note: we are experiencing severe rain here in the Chicago Burbs. Flash floods all around the area. It is possible we may have to canel tonights show and bail out our basements. We will keep an update on our site.
At 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et…. Kevin Hill, Jeff Gerhardt, Doc
Searls (Linux Journal), Arne Flones and Russ Pavlicek; have another strange and wonderful show lined up tonight on The Linux Show!!

Segment One- The News. We will cover THE HOT NEWS of the last few weeks tonight. In particular, Phat Linux 4.0 and the big news on IBM and The German Congress.

Segment Two- United Linux and ain’t it amazing how it seems to divide us.

Tonight we debate the issue of UnitedLinux, the common Linux distro announced last Thursday by Linux distro companies; Caldera, SuSE, Conectiva and Turbolinux. These four came together and announced a new combined distro called UnitedLinux. The four companies will pool resources to create a single Linux distribution focused on the business server market. The four companies will be free to bundle their own software with the distribution to add value to the generic distribution. Furthermore, other Linux companies are free to join the effort.

There has been a firestorm of controversy since the announcememnt, with most of the usual Linux and Open Source pundits chiming in, including the article by our own Russel Pavlicek at
Newsforge. The controversy rages on, including with differing opinions by the panel here at TLS. SO, we will debate the issue during segment 2 of tonights show. There is a HUGE difference of opinion on the panel for this, so this is going to be a great segment. Make sure that you also read the article at Linux and Main quoting RMS and his issues with comments by some of the United Linux founders, associated with per seat licensing.

We have invited people from SuSE and Caldera to join us tonight and put in their 2 cents as well.

Please join us on the show, and check our IRC Chat(irc.thelinuxshow.com
#linuxshow).
Remember tune in at 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et. NOTE: we are now on
Daylight Saving Time in the US.
Catch the Linux show at www.thelinuxshow.com

LinuxandMain has the announcement: “Due to more critical bugs than expected, this week’s scheduled release candidate 1 of GNOME2 has been pushed back a week, according to the release coordinator, Jeff Waugh. The GNOME2 release date, June 21, has not moved, however.”