LinuxGram has a story about all the Linux PDAs that greeted CeBit attendees, including Sharp, HNT Company Ltd, and Digital iPad.

ftobin writes, “IBM developerWorks has part 3 of a tutorial on XPCOM, a framework for writing cross-platform, modular software. Part 1 and part 2 are also available.”

From LinuxPR: theKompany.com Releases Beta 2 of
Aethera Messaging Client
Apr 2nd, 20:19 UTC

theKompany.com is pleased to announce the long awaited second beta (version
0.9.1) of our Aethera Messaging and Groupware client for KDE.

New releases will start to come much more frequently. Most of the details for the
project roadmap can be found at www.thekompany.com/projects/aethera, but
this is subject to change as we are constantly researching new features.

PR Newswire has an item about the show, to be available April 4.

Collaborative software
development is more than just the new buzz word — it’s the hot trend that has
something critical to offer businesses and developers alike. The E-Business
Network takes a close look at collaborative software development in
“Burning Issues: Collaborative Software Development,” the latest show in the
new “Burning Issues” series. Bringing the lessons learned in the open source
revolution to enterprise software development, collaborative development
offers companies a new way to get software written. (VA Linux, mentioned in the press release, owns NewsForge.)

LWN.net has a summary of the summit. Among the items: “The first presentation was by Lance Larsh of Oracle who, essentially, provided a laundry list of changes and features
Oracle would like to see in order to get better performance out of high-end, large database servers.”

From LinuxPR: Jeff Gerhardt, co-host of The Linux Show!! stated today, “The Linux
Show!! will once again be hosting our 4th Annual LUG Battletech Party at
COMDEX Chicago 2001. The Party will be Tuesday night April 3rd starting at
7:30 pm. The principle sponsor of this years event is Caldera Systems (thank you
Ransom).”

Ask Slashdot deals with a trademark issue between SGI and a developer creating something called OpenIL. Slashdot readers debate whether trademark pursuits have gone too far.

From PR Newswire: Lineo, Inc. a leading innovator
in embedded systems, real-time and high availability solutions, today
announced the availability of Lineo Embedix Software Development Kit (SDK)
2.0, the powerful development environment for configuring, customizing and
deploying Linux-based embedded software solutions.

A Sm@rt Partner columnist prefers KDE 2.0 on Caldera for himself, but says Windows 2000 Professional is the best desktop “in terms of applications, stability, and speed.” He adds: “The simple truth is that
Linux, and the rest of the
Unix family, simply aren’t
popular for desktop
systems. Corel, the
company that tried the
hardest to bring out a
commercially successful
desktop version of Linux,
fell flat on its face despite a
pretty darned good
package. I’ll keep using it — and so
will hundreds of thousands of Linux fans — but for the foreseeable future, Linux won’t be appearing on
many desktops.”

TechWeb has a story quoting Linuxcare CEO Arthur Tyde as saying there are too many companies competing for the Linux market. “Tyde, whose 2-year-old services company is
contemplating a major shift in direction, came to this
startling realization after walking the halls of a recent Linux
trade show. Tyde expects to see a significant wave of
consolidation within the next two years.”