Kelly McNeill writes: “After enduring the joke of a settlement proposal agreed to by Microsoft, the U.S. Department of Justice and nine other states, it appears that we may finally have a new settlement worth considering. If a settlement is required, I would recommend this revised settlement being discussed by the nine remaining holdout states be the deal the court approves.”

“MVD Powered NAS 1.0 runs with Intel’s CPU-mounted hardware architecture on originally upgraded Linux system. MVD also improved its open-source managing programs for NAS 1.0. That’s why MVD has mainly contacted Linux-based storage manufacturers and system integrators.” More at AsiaBizTech.

LinuxSecurity: “This week, advisories were released for postfix, openssh, wuftpd, apache, fml, icecast-server, xtel, ssh, and xmtv.  The vendors include Conectiva, Debian, FreeBSD, Mandrake, Red Hat, and SuSE.”

Rami Kassab writes “Sharp has announced their new Zaurus SL-5500, which will be released to the US early 2002. The Zaurus is a PC/PDA offspring featuring Sharp’s high res color reflective LCD screen, a QWERTY keyboard, an Intel® StrongARM® 206MHz cpu, 64MB of standard memory, and an MP3 and MPEG1 multimedia player. Eventually, wireless Bluetooth modems will be available for purchase with the Zaurus. Sharp has chosen to embed Linux as the operating system along with Personal Java, an application development environment, in order to take advantage of the open operating environment. Linux and Java developers beware! Take an in depth look at Sharp’s new Zaurus SL-5500 here.“

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Caldera didn’t think coming up with a messaging server was a good idea. Their customers did.”We had clients coming to us with a pretty good description of what they wanted,” says Louis Imershein, product architect for Caldera. The Caldera consulting and sales team was hearing from the field that Microsoft’s Exchange Server wasn’t scaling well for small- to medium-sized businesses. “Especially some of the newer features of Exchange,” Imershein says. “That was a big impetus to do it.”

So Imershein and his team got busy developing an alternative to Exchange.

A messaging server is integral to the operation of a networked company, especially as the number of workstations climbs to 50 or more. As the name implies, it is a server that handles mail, file-sharing, calendaring, and other “group activities.” Clients connect to the server to pick up messages. These clients can be the same brand as the server, but it is not imperative, and the clients can even be running a different operating system, as long as the software uses the correct protocol.

For example, the Caldera Volution Messaging Server is tightly integrated with Volution Manager, a systems management application, so resellers can bundle and sell it to businesses ready to move away from Microsoft. But individual workstations and remote systems can be running Windows client software like Outlook and still connect to and retrieve email from the Caldera server.

Imershein says that although not all of the software is Open Source, customers who need to tweak the features of the messaging server can have access to the source code and make modifications. Caldera has a Professional Services department that can help with development and customization of Volution Messaging Server. After the fact, customers who need help with installation and configuration can purchase their choice of technical support options with the package: 60 days of email support, or six months of email and phone support.

Caldera Volution Messaging Server runs exclusively on Caldera OpenLinux and OpenUnix, which means that businesses interested in using the messaging server will have to install one of Caldera’s operating systems. Imershein says that Caldera is investigating the option of porting the messaging server to Red Hat and SuSE for a followup release.

Kelly McNeill writes “Imagine that you could simply roll up your computer as though it were a newspaper and stick it in your pocket when you were done with it. The race to come up with such flexible “electronic paper” is a highly competitive one, with huge profits awaiting the winner. Royal Philips Electronics took a big step in this direction, announcing Wednesday that it has developed a viable, but primitive, video screen with the properties of paper. The secret: the scientists were able to use plastic transistor technology.”

Dave writes “Changelog:pre6:
– Jens Axboe: more bio stuff
– Coda compile fixes
– Nathan Laredo: stradis driver updateDownload: http://www.kernel.org/mirrors/”

From LinuxPlanet: “There is out there somewhere a project that proposesd to make Windows plug-ins available to Linux browsers by firing up a copy of WINE and running them there. I’ve seen some discussion of this on KDE lists lately, and it strikes me as a not-very-good idea for several reasons.”

CNet reports that Via’s public fight with Intel has taken a turn in Via’s favor, with a California District Court judge ruling that Via did not violate Intel’s intellectual property.

From Advogato: “Most academic software is released under a “free for academic use” license, which makes it impossible to use such software in a free software project. Some notable counterexamples exist. I am looking for more examples of academic software that has been successfully released under truly free licenses.”