LWN.net has the info: “The Kernel Janitor’s Project grew out of our search for things to help in
the development of the Linux kernel, and learning from other patches
submitted by more experienced people, we saw that some of these patches
indicated error patterns that could exist in other parts of the kernel, we
looked and … yes, we discovered that some parts of the kernel suffered
from the same problems and in the process we found code bitrotting …”

From LinuxPR: ScanSoft, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSFT), a leader in
paper-to-digital solutions, today announced an agreement with Vividata, Inc., a
Unix and Linux imaging software company, to provide Vividata customers with
the latest in Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology. The agreement
will provide the Unix and Linux markets with powerful OCR functionality not
previously available for these environments.

The USENIX Association writes: “The Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST 2002) is January 28-29, 2002,
in Monterey, California, USA.

The Call for Papers with submission guidelines and suggested
topics is now available at http://www.usenix.org/events/fast/cfp.

Submissions are due July 13, 2001.

The Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST 2002) is sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association, in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS (pending) and IEEE TCOS (pending).”

Ximian, Inc., the leading open source desktop
company (formerly known as Helix Code, Inc.), announced today that Todd
Miceli has joined the company as its chief financial officer. At
Ximian, Miceli will be responsible for the company’s financial direction.

“Todd brings an outstanding balance of business strategy and financial
expertise to our organization,” said Nat Friedman, CEO and co-founder
of Ximian. “In his previous positions, Todd played an integral role in
aggressively raising capital, driving company growth and structuring and
negotiating profitable strategic partnerships. His breadth of
experience will be invaluable as Ximian continues its path toward building a
world-class business.”

“Linux and open source are just beginning to take off in the desktop
market,” said Miceli. “Recent partnerships and technological developments
have helped Ximian GNOME to gain wider acceptance and recognition, and
I look forward to helping the company continue its leadership position
as provider of the world’s best open source desktop environment.”

Miceli joins Ximian from Viveca, Inc., where he served as CEO and
president, leading the corporate restructuring and strategic repositioning
of the company and managing all aspects of the company’s sale. Prior to
serving as CEO and president, Miceli was CFO of Viveca.

Previously, Miceli was vice president of finance and a founding
employee of e-Steel Corporation; vice president of business development and
strategic planning at GE Capital Mortgage Corporation; vice president of
the Corporate Finance Group at Jefferies & Company, Inc.; and principal
of the Investment Banking Group at Southcoast Capital Corporation.

Miceli received a B.S. in Finance from Bentley College and an M.B.A.
from the William E. Simon Graduate School of Administration at the
University of Rochester.

About Ximian

Based in Boston, Massachusetts, Ximian (formerly Helix Code, Inc.)
builds Ximian GNOME, the world’s most user-friendly and cost-effective
Internet desktop. In use by more than 500,000 people, the company’s
software adds an attractive and easy-to-use interface to the power of Linux
and Unix operating systems. Ximian is pursuing an aggressive plan of open
source application development, providing technology, support, and
network services to the Linux and Unix marketplace. Ximian, comprised of
many of the original architects of the GNOME system, is a founding member
of the GNOME foundation and sits on the advisory board. The company has
secured funding from leading VC firms Charles River Ventures and
Battery Ventures. For more information, visit www.ximian.com.

Ximian is a trademark of Ximian, Inc. in the United States and/or other
countries. The names of other companies and products mentioned herein
may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

The ECommerce Times follows up on the Linux Lion worm. Security experts “noted the worm would not be near the threat that it is if systems administrators
would only update their systems. The vulnerability that the Lion worm is presently exploiting has been public knowledge since
the end of January, not long after the Ramen worm made headlines.”

Inter@ctive Week reports on its new webmaster survey by featuring a Linux user. ‘Another Web manager who’s had to maximize the capabilities of his existing infrastructure is
Chris Ellenburg, the Webmaster at WFMY News 2, the CBS affiliate television station in
Greensboro, N.C., owned by Gannett. Ellenburg single-handedly runs the station’s entire Web
operation; he’s a one-man band who is a combination Linux programmer, Web designer, network
engineer and all-around tech support guy. In short, he’s the classic definition of a Webmaster.”

ComputerWorld follows up on earlier reports with a story about IBM adding some of its supercomputer and file management software technologies to its Linux rack-mounted servers.

ComputerWorld has an interview with high-profile Open Source advocate Eric S. Raymond. Among his answers: “I think the Microsoft desktop monopoly will break due to operating system pricing issues before Linux is
really ready for the role of being a true alternative.

We’re nine months away from the polish for that role. What’s still needed is for Linux to be refined to
eliminate any remaining glitches that stall installations and leave users unsure of how to proceed. That’s the
kind of stuff that needs to get fixed. There are people with incentives to do that now. The companies
making Linux distributions hire people to do it.”

From Linux Today: “Hewlett-Packard has released drivers for over 30 of their inkjet printers. The drivers themselves are provided under a mixture of licenses, ranging from GPL for GNU-licensed Ghostscript additions, the GNU Lesser GPL (LGPL) for the glue code, and a BSD license with an “HP product only” clause for the HP Inkjet Server software.”

From Slashdot: “LEON, the open-source CPU developed for the European Space Agency, has been successfully manufactured and tested by Atmel on an Atmel ATC35. Gaisler Research, whose CEO Jiri Gaisler wrote the VHDL model of LEON, also offers a real time kernel, simulator, a cross-compiler, etc. for this SPARC-family processor designed for space applications.”