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.”

From Linuxgram: “The Linux gods have spoken.

The operating system is about to get a new kernel-configuration system, one that’s supposed to make it easier to
build a Linux kernel.

Free software demigod Eric Raymond has written the new system, CML2, with the blessings of co-god Linus
Torvalds who’s promised to put it into the Linux 2.5 development kernel when it gets to the 2.5.1-2.5.2 stage. Work
on that kernel, which will eventually be released as Linux 2.6, began a little more than week ago (CSN No 395).”