BFS-Rocks writes “A very interesting interview is held at OSNews, featuring the main people behind IBM’s JFS, ReiserFS and SGI’s XFS filesystems. From what I can gather from the interview and this article over at Linux Gazette, XFS seems to be the filesystem with the most features, capabilities and most thought out design.”

ZDNet reports that Turbolinux Inc. and Samsung SDS Co. have “joined forces to create a product development and marketing company, Turbolinux Systems, that will provide Linux systems integration support and enterprise applications to the corporate and public sector in Korea, Northeast and Southeast Asia, and the Middle East.”

CNET News.com reports from Linux World: “Linux has technical strength and industry momentum,
but several obstacles remain before the Unix clone will penetrate the
deepest parts of corporate computing, Compaq Computer Chief
Technology Officer Shane Robison said Tuesday.

“The No. 1 reason corporations are hesitant to deploy Linux in the enterprise
surrounds the very nature of the open-source model,” Robison said.”

Investor’s Business Daily asks “Will Linux be Wall Street’s next killer app?

IBM Corp. (IBM) plans to announce Tuesday that the electronic trading service
that supplies brokers with data from the New York and American stock
exchanges is shifting its key applications to Linux.

The big move is being made by the Securities Industry Automation Corp., or
SIAC, and a related unit, Sector Inc.

SIAC runs the NYSE’s and Amex’s computer trading and messaging systems. It
supplies brokers and member firms with constant streams of data on buy and sell
transactions. The system handles about 4 to 5 billion trades daily from the
exchanges.”

Slashdotter Alan Jenkins reviews John P. Mulligan’s Solaris 8 Essential Reference the predecessor to the book that covered Solaris 7. Bottom line: “The book is good as a Solaris reference,
giving general coverage of the Solaris operating system for users, developers and administrators. However, it misses a
lot of the main features of Solaris 8, which are probably the reasons most people would buy version 8 in the first place.”

Linus releases the latest stable kernel prepatch, introducing a major PowerPC update and tidying things up a bit. kernel.org or your favorite mirror site will have the goods soon, if not already. Changelog below.

pre2:
 - Al Viro: block device cleanups
 - Marcelo Tosatti: make bounce buffer allocations more robust (it's ok
   for them to do IO, just not cause recursive bounce IO. So allow them)
 - Anton Altaparmakov: NTFS update (1.1.17)
 - Paul Mackerras: PPC update (big re-org)
 - Petko Manolov: USB pegasus driver fixes
 - David Miller: networking and sparc updates
 - Trond Myklebust: Export atomic_dec_and_lock
 - OGAWA Hirofumi: find and fix umsdos "filldir" users that were broken
   by the 64-bit-cleanups. Fix msdos warnings.
 - Al Viro: superblock handling cleanups and race fixes
 - Johannes Erdfelt++: USB updates

pre1:
 - Jeff Hartmann: DRM AGP/alpha cleanups
 - Ben LaHaise: highmem user pagecopy/clear optimization
 - Vojtech Pavlik: VIA IDE driver update
 - Herbert Xu: make cramfs work with HIGHMEM pages
 - David Fennell: awe32 ram size detection improvement
 - Istvan Varadi: umsdos EMD filename bug fix
 - Keith Owens: make min/max work for pointers too
 - Jan Kara: quota initialization fix
 - Brad Hards: Kaweth USB driver update (enable, and fix endianness)
 - Ralf Baechle: MIPS updates
 - David Gibson: airport driver update
 - Rogier Wolff: firestream ATM driver multi-phy support
 - Daniel Phillips: swap read page referenced set - avoid swap thrashing

The Register: “ATI launched the latest chip in its renewed assault against its arch-rival, Nvidia,
yesterday: the notebook-oriented Mobility Radeon 7500.

From a graphics perspective, there’s little that’s new here. The mobile 7500 offers
the same core technology as the desktop 7500, and both are essentially little more
than faster Radeons.”

Canda’s library of Parliament is refusing to obey a Canadian Internation Trade Tribunal ruling to cancel and replace a computer system that unfairly favored Microsoft products. The library claims it has used up its budget for implementing the new service in legal costs to defend itself before the tribunal. That’s an allegation the plaintiff, who would have built a Linux-based news monitoring service for the library, calls “ludicrous,” noting the library seemed to have an endless reserve of cash available during the two-year legal fight. Full story at Ottawa Citizen.

Reuters: “Canadian software developer Corel Corp. (COR.TO) is expected to sell the majority of its Linux division on Wednesday to a privately held startup, a move that
would end its commitment to developing the Linux desktop operating system
software.

A source close to the negotiations told Reuters on Tuesday that a newly
formed company called Xandros will pay $2 million for the Linux unit, a
division that comprised about 14 percent of Corel’s total business as of January 2001.”

Reported at EE Times: “Crossbeam Systems Inc. has announced a system to handle central-office
networking applications such as firewalls and XML accelerators.

Like offerings from CloudShield Technologies Inc., Crossbeam’s X40 box uses off-the-shelf network
processors to route packets in what are traditionally server-based applications. Crossbeam’s expertise lies in moving the packets to the applications blades, where standard
microprocessors running Linux do the actual application processing.”