Jon writes, “I’ll be the first one to admit it. I haven’t touched any variant of the Debian Linux distribution for a really long time. I personally could never get comfortable with the distribution. When this review was up for grabs I decided what the hell. I’d heard some good things about Progeny circulating and thought I’d give it a whirl…My first installation just awed me…” Read the full review at Linuxlookup.com.”

From PRNewswire: Lineo, Inc., a
leading innovator in embedded systems, real-time and high availability
solutions, today announced it will begin integrating third party software
solutions into the Lineo SecureEdge appliance development platform. Lineo
currently provides several SecureEdge OEM Internet devices including VPN
Internet routers, firewalls and network attached storage. By opening up the
platform to third parties, Lineo can now offer best-of-breed software
solutions to OEMs that desire additional functionality.

From the humor site, Segfault: “Jeff Parns considers himself a model for free software advocacy: helping out at installfests, answering
questions on the Central Kansas Free Unix User’s Group mailing list, working in his spare time on a
user-friendly graphical interface to cron. Why, then, has he yet to write a long-winded essay
rebutting Microsoft exec Craig Mundie’s recent remarks about open source? ‘I really think there are enough rebuttals already,’ said Parns. I mean, have you even read all those
things?’ “

From PRNewswire: SBS Technologies, Inc.
(Nasdaq: SBSE) today introduced Adirondack, a dual IBM PowerPC 750CXe ATX
board, running at processor speeds from 400 to 667 MHz, with IBM’s CPC710 Dual
Bridge and Memory Controller at up to 133 MHz. With VxWorks and Linux
software support plus PCI expansion capability, Adirondack takes full
advantage of IBM chipsets to provide an ideal evaluation and prototyping
platform.

Jeff Gerhardt writes, Tuesday, May 8th, 2001. Tonight live on www.thelinuxshow.comat 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et: Kevin Hill, Jeff Gerhardt, PJ
Hyett, Doc Searls(Linux Journal), and Arne Flones have a groundbreaking show
lined up. Only two segments tonight because we
have too much to cover.

In Segment One – The Linux Community Gets “Mundieized”: and tonight we
respond!
Last Wednesday we were given a head’s up by Eric Raymond about a speech that
was coming up by Craig Mundie of Microsoft, and Eric predicted correctly
that this would be the launch of one of the most controversial attacks on
Open Source yet launched by Microsoft. To say Eric was right is one of the
understatements of the year.

We have purposely kept a low profile during the last week and let the chips
fall. A great deal of writing has been done over the last few days to focus
on the major issues developed by Microsoft’s new attack on Open Source.
Tonight we are opening the mike to let people respond in an open
“uncensored” format. We will be joined tonight by some of the people in the
Linux/Open Source community that have had some of the most profound
responses to Mr. Mundie. Among those participating include: Eric
Raymond, Tom Adelstein, Lyle Ball and (our own) Doc Searls. Check out
Doc’s take on the matter here: http://doc.weblogs.com
/stories/storyReader$715) Tim Oreilly calls Doc’s comments “the most
cogent piece I’ve seen” on the matter.

Please note: We have contacted Microsoft and have invited Craig Mundie to
join us on the show. At the time of this posting we have not heard back
from him.

In Segments Two — LOKI and the future of Linux Gaming
We have been looking forward to this segment for weeks. We want to thank
all the cooperation we have had from Loki to make this segment possible.
This is going to be a lot of FUN. Joining us tonight from the LOKI team
will be:

• Scott Draeker, founder/president
• Matt Carlson, programmer
• Mike Phillips, qa/tech support guru
• Sam Lantinga, lead programmer, who will be calling in from his
  honeymoon (you would think he would have something better to do).

We will be discussing :

• – The future of Linux gaming
• – The success of SMAC (LOKI’s fastest-selling title EVER)
• – Soon to be released titles: MindRover and Rune
• – The NEW LOKI webstore

Plus we will be having a live Tribes 2 on-line game tournament
running. The Tribes server will be up until midnight pacific time, and
Kevin and Jeff will be playing music and running an IRC server for the
participants. This is what we hope will be but the first fo these
events that will allow Linux geeks to gather together for a little
fun and R&R.

Other opinions are welcome at GeekCast. If you would like to join
us on the show, check our IRC Chat
(irc.thelinuxshow.com #linuxshow). Pass a question or comment along.

Remember tune in at 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et.
Catch the Linux show at www.thelinuxshow.com.

CNet follows up on a Monday press release. “After a complicated series of transfers, SCO held rights to a version of the Unix operating system
originally developed by AT&T. That software now is part of Caldera’s product line as part of a
strategy to sell software that covers everything from low-end servers running Linux to high-end
servers with Unix. Caldera also has a much stronger support organization.

But Caldera faces steep competition from Red Hat, which managed to raise money in two public
offerings when the Linux hype was more lucrative. Caldera squeezed in its initial public offering in
March, shortly before investors started to lose interest in Linux.”

http://www.thelinuxsociety.org
What: The Linux Society General Meeting
When: Tuesday, May 8, 2001 at 6:15 pm (sharp!) to 8:30
pm
Where: The NYPC Office, Room 1560, floor 15
481 Eighth Avenue (at 34th Street)
Manhattan, New York City
Speaker: Ruth Shanen (The Linux Society)
Topic: Introduction to Linux
In an anniversary session of The Linux Society,
one of its Founding — I all but said Fathers! —
Ruth Shanen will introduce the basic concepts
of the operating system that we have all gathered
around. Everybody is welcome!

The Linux Society (TM)
(http://www.thelinuxsociety.org)
is a SIG of NYPC (http://www.nypc.org)
meeting monthly in mid-town Manhattan.
We hold a General Meeting each month on a topic of
interest to new or experienced LINUX users.
We also have a Linux Study Group in progress,
meeting two evenings each month
All our meetings are free and open to all.
For more information please check our web site
or send an email to: info@thelinuxsociety.org

Anonymous Reader writes, “Thought you might want to check out FEED’s (www.feedmag.com) interview with OpenCola’s Cory Doctorow about his bid to reinvent the intelligent agent.

Hope it is of interest for NewsForge.”

Posted at LWN.net: Immunix 7.0 is a Red Hat compatible Linux distribution, specialized for
servers (i.e. GNOME and KDE have been stripped off, but X is still there
to support X client workstations). Most of the programs provided have
been hardened with StackGuard and FormatGuard.

Immunix 7.0 includes a SubDomain-enabled kernel, which means that the
kernel will load and enforce SubDomain profiles. However, this edition
does not include the SubDomain development tools. Please contact
sales@wirex.com if you would like to purchase the SubDomain development
toolkit.

From PRNewswire: Now there’s a new weapon in the fight against extortionist patent
claims — one that could impact billions of dollars in online revenue and
alter the competitive fortunes of a number of e-commerce enterprises. In a
surprise move endorsed by the top leaders of the open source movement, two
organizations from seemingly-opposite sides of the Internet patent
debate — the intellectual property firm IP.com, and the open source advocacy
group Foresight Institute — have teamed up to launch PriorArt.org, a new
“defensive publishing” service designed to protect open source developers’
freedom to innovate while also reducing the number of bogus patent claims. Here’s a link to the site itself.