From a press release at LinuxPR: “For the third year, LogOn Technology Transfer will be organizing a series of Linux events throughout Europe called “Linux@work” starting May 9, 2001. Each “Linux@work” is composed by a conference and an exhibits. These 1-day, city-to-city events, will take place in several European venues in 2001…”

“TUXIA, was successfully introduced to the Australian market at the recently held IT Comdex/Linux Expo 2001, at the Sydney Exhibition Centre Darling Harbour. With close to 400 exhibitors and over 32000 visitors at the expo, the expo provided them with an excellent opportunity to launch their company TUXIA – a leader in the field of Embedded Linux solutions for Internet Appliances and their product – TASTE (TUXIA Appliance Synthesis Technology Enabled).” Read the press release at LinuxPR.

From ZDNet UK: “Companies are paying more attention to safeguarding their digital assets, but the overall state of corporate data security is still poor, according to security experts attending the recent CanSecWest conference.”

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. “