As ZDnet Interactive Week’s Charles Babcock points out, Linux and Apache are far from the only Open Source success stories. What about OpenNMS, Tomcat, Velocity, and Zope? They’re all covered, briefly, in this column.

ZDNet Interactive Week: “It started as a small rebellion – a warning shot fired at the
Windows monopoly by independent-minded programmers.
But the open source movement traditionally associated
with the happy penguin and the pierced, tattooed crowd is
increasingly moving into the enterprise, mingling
peacefully with commercial and proprietary code.”

ZDNET.co.uk: “Microsoft has quietly posted a second collection of Windows 2000 bug
fixes, indicating the official release of an update could come this week.

The software company last July released the first Windows 2000 bug
fix — or service pack — in a similar manner the weekend before the
official announcement of the update. Microsoft officials were
unavailable for comment.”

ZDNET.co.uk: “From the end of this month, eBay will stop sellers posting
hyperlinks to other sites, in an effort to stop buyers bypassing
its payment system.”

ZDNET.co.uk: “Opera 5.0 for Linux will have all the features of the
Windows-based version, plus a couple extra. It is also very,
very fast, according to the company.”

ZDNET.co.uk: “Wearable computing is a small industry that has gained some
attention, particularly for the offbeat nature of its products. Internet
habitués get a daily dose of it when visiting such sites as Slashdot.org,
which routinely augments some of its stories with a picture of
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates seemingly wearing a head-mounted
computer.”

The Register: “Microsoft is to supply USB 2.0 drivers for Windows XP after all.

Earlier this year, the software giant said XP would not support the next generation
serial connectivity system, preferring instead to focus on IEEE 1394 as the OS’
high speed peripherals interface.”

BBC: “The British inventor of the world wide web, Timothy Bermers-Lee, has been awarded fellowship of the Royal Society.”

CNET: “A long-awaited Crusoe-based Web tablet is set to hit the market this week.

Sonicblue–the former graphics-chip company turned Internet-appliance
maker–announced on Monday that it began shipping ProGear, a wireless Internet tablet
using Transmeta’s Crusoe TM3200 chip. Sonicblue (formerly known as S3) was one of the first
companies to announce plans to build a Transmeta-based device, shortly after the chipmaker
emerged from stealth mode in January 2000.”

“So now that you have installed FreeBSD, what do you do next? Well there are lots of things you can configure. Here, we
bring you an article that focuses on various aspects like environment, shells, etc, which need configuration. This should
set the ball rolling.” More at FreeOS.