Anonymous Reader writes “Royal Consumer Information Products unveiled a new Linux-powered PDA
Tuesday at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, NV. Royal’s new “Lin@x” PDA sports a full-color graphic LCD display and is based on a 206MHz Intel StrongARM processor with 16MB of Flash ROM and 32MB of system RAM. This latest Linux-based PDA is expected to hit store shelves by mid-2002 and be priced at $299. Read more about it at LinuxDevices.com.”

I. Valdes writes, “Andreas Tille is announcing a medicine oriented Debian distribution project called ‘Debian-Med’ which ‘…will have two main components: Support for general practice and laboratory research. The general idea is adopted from the Debian Junior project. So we provide a set of packages which have dependencies from Debian packages which help solve certain tasks.Complete story at LinuxMedNews.com.”

Anonymous Reader writes, “According to its website, the goal of theKompany is ‘to provide developers with powerful, easy-to-use tools for creating equally powerful and useful software for the world’s leading open-source operating system, Linux — and thereby ensure the long-term success of Linux.’ To find out more about theKompany and its plans for supporting Linux on the corporate and home desktop, DesktopLinux.com spoke with theKompany President and Founder, Shawn Gordon. Read the interview here.”

From PRNewswire:
Lineo(R), Metrowerks, and Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) Broadband Communications
Sector announced today that they have joined forces to form Triarc Content
Labs. Triarc Content Labs will facilitate the design and development of
Linux-based, advanced-interactive television software applications on
Motorola’s DCT5000 family of advanced-interactive digital set-tops.

IDG News Service has more information from an earlier press release.
Version 7.2 of Red Hat Linux for the Itanium processor uses the 2.4.9 Linux
kernel and incorporates the same feature set as the general use version released
in October.

From Linux-Security.com: “mutt, a popular mail client for Linux-like systems, is vulnerable to a
buffer overflow that is remotely exploitable. We have added patches to
the versions of mutt as shipped with the affected distributions to fix
the problem. We recommend to install the update package for your product
and to restart all running instances of mutt.
We thank Joost Pol for reporting the problem to the makers of mutt.”

LinuxPlanet has the review: “Gnumeric was the first desktop application I ever used in Linux that gave me a clear
sign that not all good apps have to be on a Windows platform. In my formative years on Linux, it
was the one thing I could point to and say ‘see? Excel is not the be-all end-all. Nor is Lotus.’ ”

From Businesswire.com: Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq: RHAT), the leader in
developing, deploying and managing open source solutions, announced today the availability of Red Hat Linux 7.2 for the Intel(R)
Itanium(TM) Processor.
Red Hat Linux 7.2 for the Itanium Processor features the Red Hat Linux 7.2 operating system with the 2.4 kernel and ext3 journaling
file system. This configuration supports the very large address space of Itanium-based systems and scales efficiently to eight or more
Itanium processors running as a single system image. A more complete set of configuration tools and security enhancements are also
available in this new release from Red Hat.

It’s at kt.zork.net. The issue covers a new Kate
export, KBugBuster, KOffice filters, and Emacs-style keybindings.

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Read the full article at Linuxlookup.com.