From LinuxPR: Jeff Gerhardt, Producer and Co-host of The Linux Show!!
http://www.thelinuxshow.com announced today, ” we are very pleased to
announce that we are again going to have our annual BattleTech LUG party the
same week as Spring Comdex and the Linux Business Expo. The expo is held
the week of April 2nd through 5th at Chicago’s McCormick Place. You can still
register FREE for the expo at http://www.key3media.com/comdex/chicago2001.

InfoWorld follows up on an earlier press release by saying that IBM’s decision to connect its Enterprise Storage Server to Linux-based mainframes “further underlines” Big Blue’s commitment to Linux.

LinuxPlanet has the review: “MusicMatch runs on Linux thanks to the auspices of WINE. While this normally gives me the willies, I have to say
that this was the smoothest installation of a WINE-using app I have ever seen. The program ran flawlessly in
terms of functions, though there was significant delays as the various windows and dialogs were jerkily painted
on the screen. Strictly in terms of performance, this was the most disappointing part of using MusicMatch on my
machine. The good news is, that while the interface was slow and jerky, music playing and recording were not
hindered at all.”

From PR Newswire: Metro Link Inc., the
leader in graphical display software for high-performance embedded systems,
has joined DY 4 Systems Inc. in a strategic relationship to provide complete
2D and 3D graphical solutions for military and aerospace applications. DY 4,
the world’s leading provider of mission-critical, real-time embedded
solutions, is a subsidiary of C-MAC Industries Inc. (NYSE: EMS)
(Toronto: CMS).
Under the strategic partnership agreement, Metro Link will merge DY 4’s
comprehensive OpenGL code with their own OpenGL code that was written for
LynuxWorks’ LynxOS real-time operating system, Linux and Concurrent
Computer Corporation’s PowerMAX OS real-time operating system.

InfoWorld reports that SGI will introduce a version of its Origin 3000 computer running Linux, instead of SGI’s proprietary Irix operating system.

“At long last, stable release 0.4.9 of heartbeat and associated
High-Availability (linux-ha) software has been released. This is a significant milestone for the project, and contains a great many
new features and bug fixes from many contributors, new and old.” More at LWN.net.

“LSB-OS is built using the VSXgen (the generic VSX test framework), and
contains additional tests for operating system interfaces within the
Linux Standard Base. This test suite has not yet been adopted by the
Linux Standard Base team and no claims should be made of LSB conformance
to this version of the test suite. The test assertions being tested
are available from http://www.linuxbase.org/test/lsb-os/.” Posted at LWN.net.

Danielsson, Krissi writes“”People can get quite emotional about Python, in a way they rarely get about software,” says Guido van Rossum, who developed the Python programming language. He predicts that use of Python is going to increase dramatically. “There’s a definite need for a language that’s as easy to use as Python,” he says.”From SearchEnterprise Linux

Anonymous Reader writes “Mexico City’s municipal government announced plans to switch city computers to the Linux operating system and to use the money it saves to fund social welfare programs.

In an interview with the Mexican daily Reforma, the city’s technical coordinator, José Barberán estimated that the municipality would save millions of dollars “that are spent, in my opinion, unnecessarily on software.”

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,42456,00 .html“

True, playing with Linux on a big, ugly mainframe computer can be fun, if that’s your idea of fun. It turns out that Linux on big iron not only gives the IT geeks a thrill, it’s also a money saver. News to make any corporate bean counter smile: $200,000 annual savings are forecast for companies brave enough to replace every 500 Sun servers with a single new IBM mainframe. Full story at Enterprise Linux Today.