Linux Games previews Rune, a multiplayer game currently in production at Loki. “The game itself is built on the Unreal Tournament engine, modified by Human Head Studios: Human Head licensed the UT engine and made several
enhancements to it, including a skeletal animation system, a new particle effects system, and an enhanced shadowing system. All in all with these
enhancements, the game play is smooth and fluid. With these enhancements comes natural settings, elements/people/creatures that react to their
environments and other people. They all add up to a great game.”

Linux Games previews Rune, a multiplayer game currently in production at Loki. “The game itself is built on the Unreal Tournament engine, modified by Human Head Studios: Human Head licensed the UT engine and made several
enhancements to it, including a skeletal animation system, a new particle effects system, and an enhanced shadowing system. All in all with these
enhancements, the game play is smooth and fluid. With these enhancements comes natural settings, elements/people/creatures that react to their
environments and other people. They all add up to a great game.”

Penguinppc.org reports from the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco. “Every type of hardware periphrial, chip, compiler, etc vendor is here showing off their wares to an embedded
crowd. I was a little disappointed by the number of linux based demos. For some reason I figured I would see more. (But maybe I am biased working
for a Linux company!) I did see a lot of demos based on Embedded Planet hardware, they definitly had the largest presence for a powerpc hardware
vendor.”

“pyprofis a wrapper around python’s profile module for easily profiling
python scripts without having to specify the whole path to them if they
are in $PATH, and with command line arg configurable behaviors.
(show/strip dirs, multiple output sortings, multiple print_x calls).”

“MontaVista Software Inc., the company powering the embedded
revolution, today announced the submission of its hot swap infrastructure code to the Open Source Community.
MontaVista is releasing the hot swap code as a project on Source Forge (www.sourceforge.com) with two
goals: to encourage a wide adoption of the base software and to promote the development of the infrastructure
for fault-resilience and high availability.” From a press release at All Linux Devices.

OpenOffice.org has released a new snapshot of its office producivity services. Snapshot 625 includes complete “out of the box” support for Unix printing with Xprint; an enhanced and rewritten database component; and default component file format change to XML.

From MacGIMP: “We now have GIMP 1.2 compiled and running on Mac OS X. There is a screenshot of the installation here, and another screenshot of Mac GIMP here. Before a how-to is written up, we’ll be spending more time getting XFree86 running rootless.”

From a press release at Wide Open News: “Using the power of Linux(R) to transform the Internet experience and thin client
computing, TUXIA today announced the launch of TASTE – a suite of embedded Linux software for Internet appliances and network computing
devices, such as WebPADs(TM), TV set-top boxes, thin clients and screen phones.”

“Sometimes I think that if Microsoft didn’t exist, Linux
fans would have had to invent it. It’s the company
everyone in Linux land loves to hate–very often with
good reason, sometimes without reason, and
occasionally just because it feels good. Recently,
Redmond seems to be returning the compliment in kind.” Full column at ZDNet.

Uprizer, is the lucky recipient of $4 million in funding from a group of investors including Intel. The new P2P company was founded by Ian Clarke, who is also the creator of the Freenet service that protects free speech on the Internet by decentralizing content storage. Uprizer plans to use some of the technologies developed at Freenet. Full story at CNET News.com.