From IDG.net: “Spreading like a virus everyone wants to
catch, hardware and software vendors lined
up Tuesday to announce their support for
Intel’s new Itanium 64-bit chip, parading a
slew of new products while promising
consumers high-performance and variety.

Hardware big names such as Itanium
co-developer Hewlett-Packard and
software makers like Red Hat toasted the
long-awaited arrival of Intel’s new chip by
popping the cork on a range of
Itanium-based products.”

From LinuxPR: DMS Decision Management Systems is both pleased and proud to announce the
release of the seasonal fruits of its developmental loins, version 1.5A of the Kopi Suite.

This new version corrects some important bugs and contains various
enhancements in type handling and internationalisation.

From LinuxPR: OpenNA, Inc. (www.openna.com), Leaders in totally secured, totally optimized,
ready to use Linux solutions, announce today the availability of “Securing &
Optimizing Linux: The Ultimate Solution”, the latest version and the
successor to our very popular “Securing and Optimizing Linux: Red Hat Edition”.

The latest release includes the new 2.4 kernel with IPTABLES NetFilter,
Sendmail, Qmail, IMAP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, OpenLDAP, Apache, with SSL
support and many more topics like chroot jail environment for the majority of all
important services under Linux OS. The new edition takes into account the
feedback we received on the original book and is a complete rewrite from
scratch.

From BusinessWire: In a move that shows strong support for open source software in Japan and Asia, the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) has
announced the establishment of a second facility outside Tokyo.
The new lab, in addition to a facility near Portland, Ore., will increase OSDL’s ability to enable projects that expand the enterprise and
carrier-class functionality of Linux and Linux-based software.

LinuxGram reports that “George Paolini, the Java VP reportedly responsible for Sun’s feeble Sun ONE retort to Microsoft’s
.NET scheme and the evangelist whose oversight of the so-called Java Community Process, Sun’s
quasi Java standardization process, has not proven particularly conciliatory toward Java licensees, is
leaving the company at the end of Java One next week.”

It’s at Linuxdoc.org and among the new or updated documents are: Linux ACP Modem (Mwave) mini-HOWTO; C++ Programming HOW-TO; PHP HOW-TO; and Process Monitor HOW-TO for Linux.

From LinuxPR: IBM today announced new Intel
ItaniumTM-based eServer and IntelliStation workstations which will form a
new Linux supercluster at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications
(NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Capable of 1 trillion
calculations per second, a cluster of 160 new IBM Itanium-based systems will
be the most powerful Linux supercluster in academia.

MacDiscussion.com has an interview with Yellow Dog Linux’s co-founder and CIO, Dan Burcaw, about the Linux-on-Mac operating system’s 2.0 release. Burcaw says the release is up to the Red Hat 7.0 standard as for current applications.

From LinuxPR: Pogo Linux has announced the immediate availability of its Pogo Verona,
powered by Intel’s new Pentium 4 processor. The Verona is equipped with all the
necessary essentials at a very affordable initial price of $999. Additional
upgrades can be configured through the Pogo Linux website.

It’s at seul.org and includes information on eight new Open Source education projects.