Anonymous Reader writes, “After Palm announced the buyout of Be, Inc.’s intellectual property & Technology and after some consequent indications from several key people that Palm has no interest at Be’s products and especially in BeOS, a number of the BeOS believers tried to find a new home. Some found confort in AtheOS, others joined BeUnited‘s effort to license the BeOS source code, while some developers formed efforts like BlueOS and OpenBeOS. OpenBeOS (OBOS for its friends) consists from a number of BeOS developers who are trying to recreate the BeOS Kits in a form of a new, complete and open source Operating System that has source and if possible binary compatibility with BeOS 5. One of the most important people in this effort, Michael Phipps, also part of their kernel team, is being interviewed by OSNews.”

Santa Cruz, CA – October 23, 2001 – Lutris Technologies Inc., a leading provider of JavaÔ/XML application server products for building a Web of Services?, today announced its endorsement of the Sun? ONE software vision and product architecture, and joins other industry leaders in the effort to enable the rapid creation of enterprise solutions that deliver services on demand.
Lutris has integrated its market-leading application server platform products with the Sun ONE platform, enabling Lutris to extend its leadership in delivering the highest value enterprise Java technology development and deployment platforms to its partners in the OEM, VAR, ISV and System Integrator communities. These entities are uniquely positioned to benefit from the Sun ONE value proposition for business accessibility: anytime, anywhere, anyone, and any device services for their constituents.

?The Lutris EAS application server’s dynamically composable platform beautifully complements the ability of Sun ONE to provide services on demand,? stated Paul Morgan, CTO of Lutris Technologies. ?Through tight integration with Sun?s Forte[tm] for Java[tm] IDE and native support for SOAP, UDDI, and WSDL, the Lutris EAS application server offers Lutris partners a complete platform for authoring and deploying J2EEÔ and JiniÔ technology-based Web Services.?

?Sun is committed to companies like Lutris that are adopting and embracing Sun ONE technologies to evolve their businesses,? said Marge Breya, vice president for Sun ONE at Sun Microsystems.

About Sun ONE
Sun ONE, the integration of Sun’s award-winning portfolio of software products, is Sun’s vision, architecture, platform and expertise that enables the development and delivery of services on demand. Through its open, integratable architecture, Sun ONE extends current enterprise systems to help reduce costs and complexity while improving organizations’ return on assets. Sun ONE represents a significant initiative in Sun’s evolution to providing an open end-to-end architecture building on the company’s offerings across systems and development environments. Further information is available at www.sun.com/sunone.

About Lutris Technologies
Lutris Technologies is a leading provider of Java/XML application server products for building a Web of Services?. Lutris leverages the worldwide Open Source process to combine industry standard technology with the freedom of innovation. The company’s mission is to deliver the highest value development and deployment platforms to our partners in the OEM, VAR, ISV and System Integrator community. Lutris offers a full range of product support, training and custom engineering services to its partners. Additional information about Lutris products, services and partner programs is available at www.lutris.com, or call (877) 688-3724 (U.S. toll free), (831) 460-7590 or +44 1923 431669 in the United Kingdom.

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Lutris and Enhydra are registered trademarks of Lutris Technologies, Inc. Web of Services is a trademark of Lutris Technologies, Inc.

Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Forte, Java, J2EE, Jini and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc., in the United States and other countries. Netscape and the Netscape N logo are registered trademarks of Netscape Communications Corporation in the United States and other countries.

For further information, contact:

David H. Young 			Joel Richman or Hilary Kenworthy 

Lutris Technologies 		PAN Communications, Inc. 

831/460-7310 			978/474-1900

david.young@lutris.com		lutris@pancomm.com

The Register: ” The device, the site claims, as a cross between a PDA and an MP3 player. Inside
its clamshell case is a 512×256 colour LCD (seems a bit big to us, but we’ll let that
pass for now), 128-256MB of RAM. Power is provided by a Lithium-ion battery,
connectivity by AirPort, 1394 and built-in 56Kbps modem.”

TOKYO, Japan – October 23, 2001 – The Open Source Development Lab (OSDL)has hired Shinji Takazawa to head the soon-to-be-opened sub-lab outside Tokyo, Japan. Takazawa, who has a long history of leadership in the Linux community, will manage the day-to-day operations of the sub-lab, which is scheduled to open later this year.
Supported by NEC, Hitachi, Intel, Computer Associates, Hewlett-Packard
Company, IBM, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi Electric, Miracle Linux and another 10 global companies, the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) is a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing the reliability and scalability of the Linux system, enabling the development of Linux-based business systems, communications infrastructure and other mission-critical systems.

Shinji Takazawa is a leader in the Linux community in Japan, serving as the Vice President of the Japan Linux Association (JLA), Director of the Linux Professional Institute Japan and as an advisory board member for LinuxWorld Japan. Prior to joining OSDL, Takazawa worked for SGI Japan, Ltd. and Compaq Computers as marketing and promotions manager.

?Takazawa-san will be a great asset to OSDL,? said Koichi Ikumi, executive general manager, Computer Software Operations Unit at NEC and OSDL board member. ?His leadership in the Linux community gives him credibility with both developers and the companies who support OSDL and open source programming.?

Takazawa will head a new facility outside Tokyo, Japan, which will enable OSDL to increase its ability to support projects and provide Linux developers in Asia with Linux and Linux-based software development environments. The sub-lab will work in concert with the main OSDL facility, which is located outside Portland, Oregon. Takazawa will report to the OSDL Lab Director, Timothy Witham.

?We?re very proud to add Shinji Takazawa to OSDL?s staff of Linux leaders,? said Timothy Witham, OSDL lab director. ?His experience and guidance for the sub-lab in Japan will make him a great asset, not only to the open source community in Asia, but to developers worldwide.?

OSDL fulfills a critical need of developers to have access to high-end
enterprise hardware for programming and testing. Resources for the open source community include the Scalable Test Platform, an automated testing platform for Linux development and enhancements. OSDL continues to take a leadership role in the open source community, providing an invaluable resource for developers worldwide.

About the Open Source Development Lab
Supported by a global consortium of industry leaders, the Open Source
Development Lab (OSDL) is an independent, vendor-neutral, non-profit
organization dedicated to enabling Linux and Linux-based programming for enterprise and carrier-class functionality worldwide. Headquartered near Portland, Oregon, OSDL fulfills a critical need in the open source development community to have access to the high-end hardware for programming and testing. More information on OSDL is available at www.osdlab.org.

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The Register: “The mechanisms for controlling large numbers of compromised boxes have also
changed, said Houle, becoming vastly more sophisticated since DDoS attacks
began in 1999. Attackers increasingly use IRC — the Internet’s chat room systems
— to direct attacks, sometimes using domain name records as a kind of dead drop
for directing their agents to a particular IRC server.

More disturbing to network operators, attackers have taking over the machines that
route and direct the flow of Internet traffic, to use them as weapons.”

“As I wandered down aisle after aisle of corporations selling their wares to ISPs and ASPs, I
saw no obvious sign of Linux or other open-source solutions. Yet, as is everything else in
Las Vegas, nothing is ever as it appears.” From InfoWorld.

Zack Brown posts the latest Kernel Traffic report. From over 2,000 posts made by 651 different contributors, hot topics culled from the linux-kernel mailing list include “Identifying kernels linked with undebuggable code,” “More discussion of the VM changes in 2.4,” and “Speeding up diff of kernel trees.”

OSLO, Norway– October 23, 2001–Opera Software ASA, the developer of the Opera Web
browser, the fastest browser on earth, today announced that it has joined with Ximian, Inc., the
leading open-source desktop company, to deliver its Opera for Linux Web browser through the
Ximian Red Carpet Program. Red Carpet is a software management solution that efficiently and
securely keeps Linux and UNIX systems up-to-date. Through the Red Carpet Program, the Opera for Linux Web browser has a direct connection to
hundreds of thousands of Ximian desktop customers who use Red Carpet to install, maintain
and update the software on their Linux computers.

“Red Carpet’s intuitive end-user design and broad support for different Linux distributions
makes it an exciting solution for Operas users, said Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO of Opera
Software ASA. ”

Opera Software ASA is among the first participants in the Red Carpet Partner Program.

“Opera for Linux is an innovative browser, and we are pleased to have Opera join the Red
Carpet Program, said David Patrick, president and CEO of Ximian. Operas unique surfing
experience, combined with Ximian Red Carpets growing library of software, expands a
complete software solution for the Linux desktop.”

About Opera Software ASA:
Opera Software ASA is an industry leader in the development of Web browsers for the desktop
and device markets, partnering with companies such as IBM, AMD, Symbian, Canal+
Technologies, Ericsson, and Lineo. The Opera browser has received international recognition
from end-users and the industry press for being faster, smaller and more standards-compliant
than other browsers. Opera Software ASA is a privately held company headquartered in Oslo,
Norway. Learn more about Opera at www.opera.com.

About Ximian, Inc.

Ximian is the established leader in providing open-source desktop technology, applications,
support and services for the Linux and UNIX marketplaces. Ximian products, in use by over
800,000 people worldwide, are providing the ease of use, productivity and interoperability
needed to propel the adoption of the Linux desktop in corporate computing environments. Its
Ximian Desktop software starts with Ximian GNOME, a productized end-user desktop based
on the GNOME project, to provide a complete graphical desktop environment and productivity
application suite for Linux and UNIX systems. Ximian Red Carpet and Ximian Evolution deliver
software and personal information management solutions for both end-users and corporate
customers. Comprised of many of the original architects of the GNOME system, Ximian is a
founding member of the GNOME Foundation and sits on the advisory board. The company has
secured funding from leading venture firms Charles River Ventures and Battery Ventures and
can be reached at www.ximian.com.

Ximian, Ximian Evolution and Red Carpet are trademarks of Ximian, Inc.

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Contact:

PÃ¥l A. Hvistendahl
Communications Manager
Pal@opera.com
Tel: +47 99 72 4331

Katherine Barrios
PR Manager Americas & Asia/Pacific
Kathy@opera.com
Tel: +47 24 16 44 03

LinuxWorld: “It certainly would not
be a surprise for friction to occur when Windows and Linux developers are confined in close quarters. Now
a recent post on a Borland community message board by Danny Thorpe, a well-known Borland engineer
who has been involved with the Kylix project from the beginning, has stirred the pot. Thorpe, rightly or
wrongly, criticized both Linux and open source in explaining why Kylix wasn’t working exactly as intended
at library load time.”

LinuxPlanet: “In order to get the answers on why users were experiencing problems with Word filters in OpenOffice Writer, I
decided to go to the source itself and dropped a line to Juergen Pingel, who is the project owner for the word
processor project in OpenOffice. He kindly referred me to Dublin-resident Caolán McNamara who is the filters
developer for Writer.

McNamara answered my questions about what exactly was going on with these issues and even pointed me to
a pretty good document explaining how the overall filtering process works. He did this in favor of giving me a
description of the process himself, which he characterized as” a set of incredibly complex mind-numbing
processes to find text, graphics, and attributes in a Word document to map them to our own document
features.””