DaemonNews.org has a story on the the FreeBSD sysctl mechanism, which is based on the so-called linker set technology. “It lets us gather information of a running kernel and
configure it to some extent without rebuilding a new kernel. It can also be very useful for kernel debugging. For example, you may want
to use a sysctl command to modify your TCP keepalive parameters, test new VFS write behind features, or simply to know when the
machine was booted up.”

Posted at LWN.net: “As of yesterday :), the koffice module is half-frozen: no new features to
be checked in, bugfixes commits only.
The plan is to package it as koffice-1.1-beta1 on Wednesday, [April] 18.”

Linuxgram has a short story on Torque Systems’ new Linux-based digital asset management (DAM) appliance, which it calls a “live content manager.”

From LinuxPR: theKompany.com is pleased to announce the availability of Kivio 1.0 and 11
commercial stencils sets. Kivio is a professional flowcharting and diagramming
tool in the spirit of Visio for KDE and is part of Koffice.

This new version has finalized the internal stencil structure allowing for new
`smart’ stencils to be built in the near future that will make use of Python for their
intelligence.

Linuxgram has a story about ZF Linux Devices changing its name to ZF Micro Devices. Fewer of ZF’s customers want Linux in embedded systems than the company originally thought.

From LinuxPR: To continue building a
valuable online resource for companies contemplating Open Source
Development, CommercialOS.org calls for existing companies to submit case
studies highlighting their involvement in Open Source development.

To assist companies to put together appropriate constructed case studies a
template is provided on CommercialOS.org at
http://commercialos.org/case.phtml/25/ to be used as a starting point.

Open Magazine has a story explaining how kqueues, which may be included in the next version of NetBSD, may help server performance.

Linuxgram has a short item on Chromium Communications, a firm started last year by a pair of former Microsoft execs, releasing an optimized version of Apache 1.3 running on Linux that it touts as up to three times faster than a standard Apache web server.

From LinuxPR: LinuxCertified.com, a leading provider of Linux training, will offer weekend
system administration bootcamp on May 5-6, 2001 in San Francisco bay area
(south bay). This workshop is designed for busy information technology
professionals and is designed to cover the most important Linux administration
areas.

the coolgeek writes: “I noticed that it isn’t all that easy to get started in linux kernel programming (aside from the v2.0.x-something docs floating around), so I started a forum for (hopefully) willing kernel braves, amateur and expert, to bounce information around and give the info to those who seek it. http://www.coolgeek.net/kernel_hacking.”