LinuxGram reports that embedded software development company Green Hills will port its Multi 2000 IDE to Linux. The company expects to have its Linux offering ready by this summer for PowerPC development, with an x86 version to follow shortly after.

More from Slashdot: “Spindl3top released their latest community-generated Blackbird source today, pooling together some of the coolest free software-friendly components. Highlights include the project’s ultracool trademark black cube, SMP with dual PIIIs @ 1GHz, SCSI @ 10000RPM, a Matrix-Orbital LCD panel (with lcdproc), a ThermoEngine (or optional Watercooler), and an ultra quiet PS from Enermax.”

Is Indrema about to close shop? In a report at RedHerring.com, company founder John Gildred is quoted as saying “We’ll know in 30 days” if the company will have enough money to see his dream of a Linux-based gaming console become reality. Slashdot users discuss the story.

From LinuxGram: “Great Bridge, the year-old open source database start-up underwritten by Red Hat’s original investor, a guy who made a killing on a reported $3 million investment – he once reportedly owned 30% of the joint – is branching out of Linux and is going to support PostgreSQL on Solaris.”

The Register has a short item saying that the latest version of the IA-64 Linux kernel has been released, including
support for Intel’s McKinley processor.

ZDNet profiles Steve Chang, who founded anti-virus company Trend Micro. His company offers Linux-based Internet server applicances, software and services through subsidiary ipTrend.

Among the items in this week’s ApacheWeek: “A two day hackathon for the Apache developers took place on Monday and Tuesday at the Apple campus. The hackathon was well attended
with over 40 developers making use of the time to discuss Apache 2.0 topics including filtering, the proxy module, libtool, SSL, and the
upcoming beta release.

The first beta of Apache, version 2.0.16, was released after work at the Hackathon, just over a year since the first alpha was released. “

– By Grant Gross –

The manager of Advanced Micro Devices’ software research and development group says the chip-maker is committed to making Linux work with AMD’s not-yet-released 64-bit architecture.

Wayne Meretsky, an AMD fellow, says AMD “went out of our way” to include the Linux community when AMD announced its x86-64 project last summer.

Meretsky promised that AMD would fix the closed-source license on the x86-64.org project site to port Linux to AMD’s 64-bit architecture. The license, which appears on the front page of the site, and several other pages, including downloads to Open Source tools such as GCC, should be pegged only to proprietary downloads on the site by mid-month, Meretsky said. GPL-licensed tools will have the GPL linked to their downloads.

“It was a clear oversight on our part,” Meretsky said of the license. “It’s obviously silly, and we’re getting it addressed as soon as possible.

Developers working on the Linux port to AMD’s architecture have defended the company for including Linux in its plans for its 64-bit chips from the very start. AMD, which is excited about the growth and potential of Linux, has its heart in the right place, Meretsky said. AMD, unlike some competitors that guard their intellectual property, made its architectural specification available at no cost “when the ink was dry” on its 64-bit announcement, he said, so that “people can actually get to work.”

AMD’s goal is to have its Sledgehammer and Clawhammer chips based on the x86-64 architecture in the second half of 2002, according to the company’s processor roadmap. AMD eventually plans to have the 64-bit architecture work on a variety of Linux distributions, including SuSE and Red Hat, plus most other major operating systems, including Windows, Solaris, DOS, and OS/2. In some cases, the chips will work in 32-bit mode before they’re tested for 64-bit mode.

Meanwhile, AMD is learning about Open Source, Meretsky said. “There a whole lot of things we’ve learned along the way,” he said. “This was my first interaction with the Open Source community of this magnitude.”

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ZDNet has a review of several recent worms that have targeted Linux.

ZDNet UK reports on Bruce Perens’ plans to challenge big tech on intellectual software patents at a meeting this summer. “The open source community is planning to meet IBM, HP and
others that are making fat profits from open source software,
and ask them to relinquish intellectual property in return.”