From KDE Dot News: “It’s clear that the KDE Project has done a very poor job in communicating our
policy on releasing binary packages. I say this because as the primary contact on
the release blurbs, I am the one that gets swamped with emails asking ‘where is
insert-your-distro package?’ and ‘how does this package work?’ and ‘why are you
discriminating against that-distro?’ These emails obviously stem from the (incorrect) belief that
the KDE Project is responsible for creating those packages.”

From PR Newswire: Lineo, Inc., a leading innovator in embedded systems, real-time and high
availability solutions today announced the release of SecureEdge Network
Attached Storage (NAS) platform designed to provide OEMs with storage
solutions for secure Internet appliances and SecureEdge Firewall, a low-cost
network access platform that provides a router, firewall and secure PPTP and
IPSec VPN capabilities in a single compact enclosure. Both appliance
platforms are new additions to the Lineo SecureEdge family — the OEM
development platform for Linux-based appliances and devices.

From BusinessWire via Wide Open News: VA Linux Systems, Inc. today introduced its
next generation of high-performance 2U servers in the VA Linux 2200 series. The three new servers offer advanced
remote management capabilities using VACM(TM), VA’s Open Source cluster management software, and augment VA’s
industry-leading line of ultradense 1U and 2U rack-optimized Linux servers. (VA Linux owns NewsForge.)

The Canadian Press reports that Corel Corp. shareholders have approved
a plan to change the
software company’s stock
options for about a dozen
high-ranking executives,
including chief executive
Derek J. Burney.

“Shareholders at the annual
meeting gave overwhelming
support for the move because
they recognized it also
benefited the company’s
finances, Burney said after the
meeting at the Corel Centre in
suburban Ottawa.”

Reuters reports that a judge criticized Napster
on Tuesday, saying it was “disgraceful” that
copyrighted music files remained on its system. The judge threatened to shut the Internet song-swap service down.

From BusinessWire via Wide Open News: ZF Micro Devices, a provider of Open Architecture x86
systems and Embedded Open Source operating systems, has changed the name of ZF Linux Devices to ZF Micro
Devices effective 4/1/01. The new name change comes at a time when the company now has the ability to provide
embedded solutions with all operating systems, including Linux. ZF has also changed the name of its MachZ
PC-on-a-Chip to ZFx86.

Videobusiness.com quotes Indream CEO John Gildred as saying: “Although there’s a lot of interest in the
product, the grim reality is that after six
months of looking, we’re not able to find
funding to continue the operation. I already
let go of several staff members and will
have to let the rest of the staff go this
week.”

A column at Oreillynet.com reviews the recent Linux-based Adore Worm; buffer overflows in xntpd and ntpd; and vulnerabilities in SharePlex, Ultimate Bulletin Board, Lucent/Orinoco Closed Network, Red Hat’s OpenSSH, Cisco Content Services Switches, and IPFilter.

From BusinessWire via Wide Open News:

At the Embedded Systems Conference today, RidgeRun, Inc. announced that its recently launched DSPLinux SDK
will be hosted by DevelopOnline.

This will provide online access to the DSPLinux SDK and Appliance Simulator. The DSPLinux SDK allows developers to
build applications for Texas Instruments (TI) DSP + ARM platforms prior to having access to the actual hardware.
Availability at DevelopOnline is anticipated to be in May 2001.

From PR Newswire:

Lineo, Inc., a leading innovator in embedded systems, real-time and high
availability solutions today announced it has opened an office in Silicon
Valley to become the new Lineo Embedded Systems Center (LESC) focused on
sales, marketing and services functions under the direction of Richard Larsen,
senior vice president of sales, marketing and services, Lineo, Inc.