IDG.net reports: “A controversial e-mail message sent by a top Microsoft Corp. official to Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates that allegedly highlighted the company’s strong-arm dealings with hardware makers will not see the light of day in court.”

CRN.com reports that one of IBM’s biggest solution providers, Mainline Information Systems, has agreed to roll out a comprehensive package of products and programs for SuSE Linux on IBM mainframes.

Anonymous Reader writes, “Take the role of John Mullins in this excellent FPS, the sequel to the hit game Soldier of Fortune. John Mullins has a long combat record with a reputation of getting the job done, when no one else can. After a career with the Special Forces he has decided to work for himself as a mercenary for hire. Taking most of his work from an organisation known only as SHOP. Together with your friends Sam Gladstone and Madeline Taylor, you fight terrorism around the globe.”

The review’s at LinuxGaming.co.uk.

Anonymous Reader writes, “As part of its efforts to support the growing Desktop Linux revolution, DesktopLinux.com is pleased to announce ongoing survey results in our online Desktop Linux distribution ‘quick poll.’ The survey asks readers to provide information about which distribution(s) they use or plan to use for desktop purposes. The results, after 6 months of polling” are at DesktopLinux.com.

LinuxDevices.com writes, “In this whitepaper, Jorge Arellano Cid, the Dillo
project’s founder, maintainer, and lead developer, introduces the
Embedded Linux community to the Dillo project. What’s Dillo? Dillo is a very small, fast, Open Source multi-platform web browser that’s written completely in C and built on GTK+ libraries. Dillo’s high efficiency and minimal library dependencies make it quite suitable for embedded apps. It can even team up with an embedded webserver to completely eliminate the need for a window manager in an embedded device. Read it here.”

IDG: “A controversial e-mail message sent by a top Microsoft Corp. official to Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates that allegedly highlighted the company’s strong-arm dealings with hardware makers will not see the light of day in court, a federal judge ruled again on Wednesday.” Full story here.

ZDNet: “A conservative U.S. think tank suggests in an upcoming report that open-source software is inherently less secure than proprietary software, and warns governments against relying on it for national security.” Read more here.

Anonymous Reader writes, “Columnist Malcolm Dean offers his perspective on the UnitedLinux “uber-distribution” in this entertaining article at DesktopLinux.com”

Open for Business has the review giving “A” grades to both CrossOver Office 1.0 and Win4Lin 4.0.

Okay, so we reported in March, but Wired.com now reports that AOL is testing a browser based on Mozilla for its AOL 8.0 release due out this fall.