Advogato.org has a short item about the first national meeting on FreeBSD in Brazil August 18 and 19.

Interactive Week reports that Borland is “taking a chapter from the open source developer’s book” by creating a collaborative development model. More from sister publication ZDNet, which mentions our sister site, SourceForge.

LinuxHardware.org has the review. “The Pentium 4 Processor has now been out for several months and
there are many opinions about Intel’s latest silicon. Some claim that
it is the next god CPU and some still declare Athlon as a clear
leader. As usual, all the current tests that are available have been
conducted under Microsoft OSes with very few exceptions. So
how does the Pentium 4 perform under Linux and what support is
available from the kernel and GCC? The results probably will surprise you…”

From EETimes.com: “Promising a significant boost in Verilog simulation
speeds, Avery Design Systems Inc. has released a product that lets users
run one simulation job in parallel on multiple CPUs. Originally part of
Avery’s VCK Verilog simulation and testbench environment, the
SimCluster product can now be licensed separately for use with
third-party Verilog simulators.

As a distributed simulation manager, SimCluster handles synchronization
and communication between simulation runs. It can be used with
multiple-CPU symmetric-multiprocessing machines such as Sun ES450
and ES4500 workstations, or over distributed networks of single-CPU
machines such as Linux PCs.”

Two major American technology companies announced earnings today. First up is Intel, who beat analyst expectations for its second quarter with net income of $854 million, or 12 cents per share. Analysts were expecting 10 cents a share. While better than expected, the figure was a 76 percent drop from 2Q 2000. Cupertino, Calif. computer maker Apple reported earnings of $61 million, or 17 cents a share. In the same quarter for last year, the company had earnings of $200 million, or 55 cents per share.

Want a trial edition copy of Kylix or Delphi 6? All you need do is head on over to register.borland.com, select the product you want, fill out the form, and it will be yours for the downloading. While the site refers to trial and free versions, only the trial version is available at this time.

As predicted, Intel this week made steep price cuts on a variety of Pentium III and Celeron processors. Intel slaed prices on its 900MHz and 1GHz mobile Pentium III chips by 37 percent to $268 and $401, respectively. 900MHz Celerons can now be had for just $89, cut from $103. Keep in mind that the pricing is for chips purchased in units of 1,000, but the price cuts should translate into lower prices at your local geek emporium, eventually. Full story at ZDNet News.

– By Dan Berkes –

San Francisco-based Open Source vendor TurboLinux today announced the appointment of Ly-Huong Pham as the company’s chief executive officer. The announcement, far from earth-shaking, merely confirms Pham’s ongoing duties at the company.Hired last June by outgoing TurboLinux CEO T. Paul Thomas as the company’s executive vice president of development, and promoted to chief operating officer in February, is a tested company veteran at this point, having stayed on with TurboLinux through several crises, including the departure last fall of chairman Cliff Miller, the March cancellation of its IPO, and this spring’s aborted merger with LinuxCare.

Pham’s previous executive office experience includes a stint as COO for OnScreen24, a subsidiary of videoconferencing concern VTEL, and a variety of senior positions with Mitre Corporation. Far from being a corporate suit, Pham holds a master’s degree in computer information systems and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, both from Boston University. She also has over two decades of real-world experience under her belt, including 13 years spent as a programmer for Wang, and five years designing a new interface for Apple Computer’s Mac OS 8. Additionally, Pham holds seven patents in the areas of data object integration and visual communications, and is credited as co-inventor for another six pending patents in computer systems and human interface design.

Founded in 1992, TurboLinux markets its Linux distribution to enterprise markets in a variety of workstation and server packages. The company is also one of IBM’s global Linux partners, and produces a version of its TurboLinux Server 6 product for Big Blue’s zSeries and S/390 server hardware. The company has enjoyed moderate success in Asian markets, notably Japan, but faces an uphill battle in North America in an arena that analysts say is increasingly dominated by Red Hat’s enterprise Linux offerings.

Current company strategy seems to conflict with the TurboLinux push into North America. The plan to profitability includes building on its sales of shrink-wrapped software, but its major market for that particular strategy remains Japan. Still, TurboLinux’s new CEO believes that its current plans, including this particular strategy, will enable the company to reach profitability in the near future.

T. Paul Thomas, who initially planned to leave the company last February when its merger with LinuxCare was still a possibility, plans to stay on with TurboLinux in the role of chairman.

8wire.com reviews NetMAX’s FireWall ProSuite, a Linux-based software solution that handles routin, firewalls, connection sharing, and even APC power management. Reviewer: “Our lab testing couldn’t bring it
down, proving that it’s a highly effective firewall.”

Open Source database vendor Great Bridge LLC confirmed on Monday that it is considering several possible outside investors and strategic partnerships. Great Bridge president Robert R. Gilbert declined to name names, but the Virginian-Pilot report (posted at NewsAlert) speculated that one of those investors might be Red Hat Inc. due to its recently-announced plans to enter the database market with its own version of PostgreSQL.