Hot on the tail of Wind River’s acquisition of BSDi and the related services, Linuxdevices interviews John Fogelin, the VP and general manager of Wind River Systems. In it, they discuss why they chose a BSD over linux, and some possible applications of the software.

Over at Signalground.com, they have a review of the Pogo Linux Velocity Workstation, a preconfigure Linux RAID workstation.

A wonderful paper on detecting trojan Loadable Kernel Modules has been written. While all the BSDs, Solaris, and Linux support LKMs, this paper focuses specifically on Linux.

Debian unstable has added the GCC 3.0 and glibc 2.2.3pre1 packages. This move has been done so that people can help test the new release of GCC.

The recently released mod_mp3, a module which lets Apache stream MP3s, has been written up on Slashdot.

“The Open Source business model continues to gain credibility with Stratabase’s announcement of increased revenues and positive Q4 net income.” The complete information package is on LinuxPR.

From the humor site, Segfault.org: “O’Reilly and Associates, publishers of technical and computer related textbooks, released a report today of a
mass breakout at their headquarters in Sebastopol, California. Spokeswomen Sara Whinge was calm and
collected as she read a prepared statement revealing that the Javascript Rhinoceros, Information Architecture
Polar Bear, Apache Horse, HTML & XHTML Koala and other front page models have been missing since
Wednesday.”

CNet has a blurb on SourceXchange closing. The most interesting thing to note is that there were no layoffs involved at all, merely a restructuring of available resources.

Debianplant has linked to the first interview with the Debian Project Leader, Ben Collins.

KDE’s KDevelop IDE has reached version 3.0 (as reported by KDE.news). This release includes Java and Objective C support, and is ripe for having its code hacked by developers looking to add features. KDevelop 2, the current stable version of KDevelop, is scheduled to ship with KDE 2.2.