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.

– By Dan Berkes –
Indrema’s impending shutdown has
produced a barrage of questions from
developers and the media. Tonight, company founder John Gildred provided a
few answers. In a chat with Indrema supporters and developers on Wednesday night,
Gildred answered a few of the community’s burning questions. First and
foremost, what’s going to happen to all that software that Indrema has
nurtured along over the past 24 months?

Indrema had planned to release some of its software under the Open Source
model when the console was released. At this point, said Gildred, “If we
release code, it will include Popcorn only. Not OpenStream. Not Xtrema.”

Popcorn is the name of a video navigation system that would have been
included with Indrema’s box. OpenStream is a system for video rendering
and manipulation; Xtrema is described as “essentially a limited version of
the X Windows API” at the Indrema
Developer Network site.

The latter pair of projects have already been “taken by one of
the developers to work on independently,” he said, and whatever becomes of
them, they won’t be released as Open Source.

The state of Indrema’s hardware intellectual property is still
uncertain. Indrema is considering opportunities to sell the design to
other developers, but who, if anyone, will wind up with those plans has
yet to be determined.

Also uncertain is the future of community/developer site Indrema
Developer Network, currently hosted via an
Indrema/CollabNet partnership. Without the Indrema corporate backing,
IDN will likely have to find a new home. Talks are underway with
other companies interested in Linux and Open Source gaming to take over
hosting the community, said an IDN volunteer.

Gildred’s statements left no doubt that Indrema is dead, and it won’t be
back. With no buyout offers waiting in the wings, the company would have
needed “upwards of $10 million” to keep going. Whatever remains of Indrema
will be gone this Friday, when the last of the company’s employees are
terminated.

At the same time, Gildred wouldn’t entirely rule out the possibility that
an Indrema-like console would ever make it to market. If he had to do it
all over again, he said “I will make sure the (venture) capital will be
there for three years.”

Indrema’s founder isn’t about to retreat for an extended sulk. He’s
already accepted a job offer from electronics giant Pioneer,
where he’ll take the lead in developing the next generation of
“killer” digital television services.

At the end of the week, all that will be left of Indrema are memories — and the “Chrome” console prototype of the L600 (displayed prominently on the Indrema
home page), which Gildred plans to keep around the house.

“It was a helluva ride,” he said.

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LinuxPR: “You have heard about Linux and want to try it on your PC but aren’t sure where
to begin. You’re not quite sure about partitioning your hard disk or whether you
have a winmodem or not. Would you like some help? That’s what this day is
about. The UK Linux community is volunteering its services for the day by
offering to help you install Linux on your PC.”

From LinuxPR: “Today, SuSE Linux
announced SuSE’s Free Linux Program for US High Schools. Administrators, IT
specialist or teachers of computer science at secondary educational institutions
are invited to participate in the program immediately. The announcement is part
of an ongoing campaign to make open source computing the IT standard for
operating systems and applications worldwide. Initially, SuSE will sponsor more
than 2,000 boxes of SuSE Linux throughout US public and private high schools.”

ActiveState, the leader in open source programming, announces the ActiveState Programmer Network (ASPN). ASPN delivers tools and knowledge to enable programming with open source technologies.

“The all-in-one access to resources seamlessly integrated with our multi-language, cross-platform
IDEs and other technologies make it easier to program with open source technologies,” said Dick Hardt,
Founder & CEO. “Programmers can develop in the language and platform that maps best to their coding task.”

ASPN features:

• Komodo IDE for Perl and Python, with PHP, Tcl and XSLT coming
• Visual Studio.NET integration for Perl, Python and XSLT
• Online searchable O’Reilly technical references
• Python cookbook and sample code
• ActivePerl, ActivePython, and ActiveTcl, binary distributions
• FAQs and mailing lists

To empower a broader class of programmers with open source and to enable programmer productivity,
ActiveState launched ASPN in multiple levels.

ASPN Open is a free online resource where casual and new programmers can easily access a comprehensive knowledge base. Technical references, cookbooks, sample code and ActiveState documentation are categorized and searchable online. ASPN Open also includes ActiveState’s popular, quality-assured, binary distributions of open source programming languages, which have had over a million downloads in the past year. For those learning to program, ASPN Open provides a non-commercial license for Komodo.

ASPN Komodo, designed for professional programmers, combines the Komodo IDE with essential programming information in a single, convenient interface. Built on the Mozilla framework, the Komodo IDE is cross-platform and will provide support for all popular open source programming languages. Priced at $295, ASPN Komodo provides Komodo plus all updates for one year, as well as all the features of ASPN Open.

ASPN Perl combines advanced programming technology and Perl knowledge for the discerning Perl developer. This level includes all popular O’Reilly Perl titles, searchable and retrievable online. Building on top of ASPN Open and ASPN Komodo, ASPN Perl delivers Perl utilities and Visual Perl. Developers familiar with Visual Studio can now use Visual Perl for rapid Perl application development in Visual Studio.NET. Priced at $495, ASPN Perl assures all updates for one year, including Visual Perl updates released to correspond with Visual Studio.NET development.

About ActiveState:
ActiveState is the leading provider of open source based programming products and services for cross-platform development. ActiveState’s key technologies are Perl, the Internet’s most popular programming language; Python and Tcl, user-friendly scripting languages; PHP, the dynamic Web programming language; and XSLT, the XML transformation language. The ActiveState Programmer Network (ASPN) offers these technologies with the latest information and productivity tools, empowering programmers with the freedom to work with their preferred language and development environment.

© ActiveState Corporation 2001.
ActiveState, ASPN and Komodo are trademarks of ActiveState Corp. All other company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Media & Analyst Contacts:
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Linux Journal reviews Charles F. Bowman’s The New X Window System: A Complete Internet Architecture: “On the positive side, this book will inform
IT managers, administrators and developers of the many advantages and possibilities that Broadway offers. Programmers, however, might feel the book is a little sparse on
details.”

Slashdot: “The Perl Journal is back in the hands of Jon Orwant, after a sorrowful chapter in the
hands of EarthWeb. No details available yet, just the good news. He is now accepting article proposals
for future issues, and Issue #20 will be printed and mailed soon.”

From a press release at PR Newswire: “LynuxWorks(TM) and Trolltech are pleased to announce the availability of
Trolltech’s Qt/Embedded for LynuxWorks’ BlueCat(TM) Linux. The new agreement
bundles Qt/Embedded with LynuxWorks’ BlueCat Linux. LynuxWorks will resell and
offer professional services, as well as work with Trolltech to ensure that
Qt/Embedded is fully supported. Trolltech and LynuxWorks will also pursue
joint marketing and sales efforts.”

Linux Journal: “For those who are not aware of LPI, we are an independent, nonprofit professional certification organization that evolved out of the Linux community and
continues to move ahead with community support. We specify only the certification standards and NOT how you prepare to meet those standards. We do not approve, endorse
or authorize any specific courseware, books or any other means. We are not in the business of selling training. What we are is an organization of Linux professionals setting
standards for what knowledge should be known by someone working with Linux.”

New Java announcements from Sun: “The first is the completion of the Java platform for Linux,
which provides embedded application developers access to the entire Java
platform for use on the Linux operating system. In the second, Sun announced
availability of the Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME(TM)) for VxWorks,
Wind River System’s popular real-time operating system.” Press release at PR Newswire.