“NeTraverse Win4Lin 3.0 is a program that allows you to install and run Windows 95/98 under Linux. With Windows up and running (from within Linux) you can
easily add all your favorite Windows applications just like you would with a regular installation of Windows. Win4Lin 3.0 is truly a great product. The ability to connect to Exchange Servers using Outlook along with the ability to use VPN from within Win4Lin is exactly
what I have been dreaming of for a very long time.” Read the full review at Linux-World Danmark.

Zack Brown posts the latest summary of linux-kernel mailing list traffic and topics. Hot topics from the 998 posts made to the list in the past week include “Docs from 3Com,” “Sony VAIO motion eye camera driver,” and “IBM lumbering near Open Source.”

From ZDNet (via Yahoo News): “In an interview with ZDNet Germany,
Caldera chief Ransom Love hits back at
free software founder Richard Stallman, denying that he is a ‘greedy
capitalist’ or a ‘parasite.’

‘I am not a greedy capitalist. I am only a businessman. I just do my job. I’m not
quite sure whether you can call this parasitic. I am not a parasite,’ Caldera
chief executive Ransom Love told ZDNet in Munich, Germany over the
weekend. Love was defending himself and the open source movement against
reproaches by Richard Stallman, the chairman of the Free Software Foundation. Back in May, Stallman was
quoted as saying of Love: ‘He’s only a parasite.'”

From Apache Today: “Lineo has released Lineo Availix Vertical Clustering 1.0, an solution to
provide Internet data centers, large Internet service
providers and access providers with high scalability and performance for non-stop access
services.

Availix clustering solutions are based on the Linux operating system, high-speed switched
technologies, and CompactPCI bus. They offer high availability and full hot-swap capabilities with
all the benefits of a single administration interface per cluster and shared devices.”

ZDNet News reports on IBM’s new silicon-germanium chipmaking technology that allows it to produce transistors much thinner than those from other makers. As a result of this new manufacturing process, IBM has produced a silicon transistor capable of operating at 210GHz, sipping from a mere 1 milliamp of electrical current. Big Blue expects the technique to pave the way for 80GHz networking chips.

From a press release at Compaq: “Compaq Computer Corporation and Intel Corporation today
announced a multi-year agreement that accelerates availability of next-generation enterprise servers based on the
Intel Itanium processor family. Compaq will transfer key enterprise processor technology to Intel and
consolidate its entire 64-bit server family on the Itanium architecture.”

The Inquirer: “A disillusioned soul at the Big Q has sent us the June 12th memo of CEO Mike
Capellas which, he says, promises the structure of his firm will alter so radically that it won’t
resemble anything like the Compaq of one year ago, never mind five.

Capellas has given himself a deadline of 180 days and set aside some money for
acquisitions, as well as repositioning Q as a solutions and services company. We expect
getting rid of the Alpha platform (see separate story) is part of that “up drawbridge” mentality.
Mike C won’t use 10 words where 3,390 will do, so do sit down before you start to read on.”

From MozillaQuest: “Caldera International has two new Linux products plus a new Linux-savvy UNIX product,
OpenLinux Workstation 3.1, OpenLinux Secure Internet Server, and Open UNIX 8. Along with
Mandrake, Red Hat, and SuSE, Caldera is one of the four leading Linux OS distributions.”

eWEEK: “Despite the anticipation caused by Microsoft’s .Net strategy, many developers still are not
convinced that the impending Web services platform is stable, reliable or ready for the
enterprise.”

Virtual PC for Windows? No, it’s not quite like selling ice cubes to penguins. As ZDnet’s Stephan Somogyi explains, the once Mac-exclusive software is now available for Windows users who need (or just want) to run more than one operating system at a time. Somogyi used his review copy of Virtual PC to install Mandrake 8.0, and reports that everything worked wonderfully.