Meredith Derby writes: “BMC Software, Inc. expanded its commitment to managing open source software Jan. 30. The company announced several new products designed for deploying and managing the Linux operating system.” The story’s at Searchwindowsmanageability.techtarget.com.

Fosdem.org has an interview with Adam Fedor of GNUstep. How he got started: “A long time ago I wrote a program to design holograms on my NeXT computer. When I was at
collage, all they had were Unix computers, so I tried to port the application to Unix. This got me started
with some of the precursors to GNUstep.”

Anonymous Reader writes, “According to this story at LinuxDevices.com, the future of the Agenda Linux PDA is very much in doubt. Agenda’s U.S. phone and fax numbers have been disconnected (with no forwarding number), and Fry’s Electronics and Tiger Direct are now sold out of ‘the last hardware that Agenda dumped to them in late 2001,’ a source said. But Agenda Germany reportedly still has VR3s available and says they are continuing the development of the product.”

NewsFactor Network writes, “Consider the Sony PlayStation 2. For a retail price of US$300, you get a gaming console with excellent hardware capabilities. It has an IEEE 1394 port (which Sony calls iLink and Apple calls Firewire), two USB ports, and is capable of high-quality optical audio (DTS/Dolby Digital) and video (S-Video). In essence, it is the perfect gaming console. Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better, Sony announced the availability of a Linux for PS2 option. For an additional $200, you get a 40 GB hard drive, a 100 Base-T Ethernet card, a computer monitor adapter and a keyboard and mouse. You also get the Linux operating system, compilers and programming tools. So for as little as $500, you’ll be able to play the best-selling console games on the market, watch DVDs and get a very capable Linux workstation.”

Anonymous Reader writes, “NVMAX.COM has a review of Sorcerer Linux at http://www.nvmax.com/cgi-bin/nvmax.pl?action=revie ws:SORCERER_GNU which is fairly in-depth.”

C|Net reports that “Egenera, a start-up betting that financial services companies and
other customers will like its expensive Linux servers, has found its first customer in
Credit Suisse First Boston.”

From Reuters: “Eric Corley, the central figure in the ‘DVD hacker’ case who was
barred by a court from posting online how to make copies of DVDs, vowed Wednesday
to keep fighting the copyright law the ruling was based on, and which he says
oppresses more and more people each day.”

Lyn Reaves writes: Team ASA Inc., a manufacturer of high-performance cross platform networking products, today announced the newest member in the NPWR Single Networking Computer family, the NPWR-DS.

The NPWR-DS, the first Single Board Networking Computer (SBNC) implemented with Dual 160 Mega bytes per second SCSI ports and Dual Gigabit Ethernet channels. The NPWR-DS is specifically designed for tape drive manufacturers who wish to implement embedded Linux and BSD servers.

“The NPWR-DS with its dual SCSI channels will give our customers the ability to fetch data from slower tape drives on one SCSI port, and access higher speed disk on the second SCSI port, simultaneously.” Said Mark Murray, president of Team ASA, Inc. “Dual SCSI ports is something our customers have been asking for since the initial release of NPWR” explained Murray.

The NPWR-DS offers the same high performance, compact footprint, and low power consumption as the previous NPWR family members. NPWR-DS consumes only 15W at 733 MHz. The NPWR-DS is shipped standard with a Linux OS FLASH ROM Drive. A BSD port for all NPWR SBNCs will be available soon.

The NPWR-DS is powered by a Intel XScale processor, a RISC CPU with clock rates reaching as high as 733 Mhz. The NPWR-DS standard configuration includes Dual 160 Megabyte per second SCSI ports, 8 Mbytes of FLASH ROM, 128 Mbytes of SDRAM and Dual Gigabit Ethernet ports.

Every NPWR includes Team ASA’s Linux port on CDROM. The NPWR CDROM also includes all tools, documentation and sources needed to make any NPWR based product an immediate success. NPWR is factory configured with a Flash ROM disk running Linux to ensure expedited product development.

“OEMs can use the NPWR-DS to build Tape Servers, Tape Controllers, Firewalls, Routers even RAID Controllers” said Murray. “Our customers can take the NPWR out of the box and implement a new product in a single day.”
NPWR_DS is scheduled to start shipping on March 4th, 2002. Team ASA is currently shipping the single Channel SCSI with Dual Gigabit Ethernet version of the NPWR . Suggested retail pricing for NPWR-DS with Dual SCSI and Dual Gigabit Ethernet at the following speeds is as follows, 400 MHz NPWR is $1.095; the 600 MHz NPWR is $1,135 and the pricing for the 733 MHz. NPWR is $1,395. OEM pricing is available on request.

Team ASA, Inc. will display it’s product line including all NPWR family members during the Intel Developers Forum at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco on February 25th, 26th, and 27th, 2002.

About Team ASA, Inc.

Team ASA, Inc. designs, develops, and markets high-speed networking communications solutions for Pre-Press and Digital Multimedia professionals. Team ASA’s products increase the productivity of professional users working with large files in networked environments. Team ASA solves the common problem of long delays when sending large multi-megabyte digital files across a network. Team ASA’s released the NPWR in June of 2001. Team ASA ‘s current product line also includes the Stallion GT/GE Gigabit Ethernet adapters.

For more information, please contact:

Lyn Reaves
Team ASA, Inc.
6690 Mission Gorge Road, Suite Q
San Diego, CA 92120
(619) 563-5540 or fax (619) 563-7640
Email: lyn@TeamASA.com
URL: www.TeamASA.com

Anonymous Reader writes, “X Windows and GTK+ are not the bloated monsters you think they are. In this article at LinuxDevices.com, Chuck Groom explains how you can modify GTK+/X to build your device’s GUI. Create graphics for devices that span widgets, space-saving text fields, and more by customizing the freely available GTK+ toolkit.”

C|Net reports that E*Trade is moving its computer systems over to IBM servers that run Linux. E*Trade cited cost savings and performance as reasons for
switching to Linux. See also, the press release from Canada NewsWire.