From LinuxPR: “REDSonic, Inc. and K Computing are hosting a hands-on Real-Time Embedded Linux Training class in San Jose from April 16-18, 2001. This hands-on tutorial walks the participants through the steps involved in customizing a Linux environment to support an embedded application.”

From LinuxWorld: “LynuxWorks(tm), Inc., a provider of open source and true real-time embedded solutions for the post-PC era, and NeoMagic Corporation (Nasdaq: NMGC), a leading pioneer of embedded DRAM and logic technology, today announced that they are using LynuxWorks’ embedded BlueCat(tm) Linux for the upcoming NeoMagic System-on-Chip (SoC) platform for smart handheld devices.”

“The Simi-Conejo Linux Users Group will be holding LUGFest IV on April 21st and 22nd, 2001, in Simi Valley, California. Approximately 350 Linux enthusiasts and a number of vendors attended over the course of the afternoon. This April the event will expand to cover two days.” From LinuxPR.

From LinuxPR: “Linux enthusiasts need wait no more as once again Linux fever strikes the region with the third Singapore Linux Conference. Entering its third iteration in the annual series that started in 1999, the show promises to be bigger and better to satisfy and sate the appetites of the thousands of Linux fanatics out there.”

Promotion by osmosis. InternetWire has a press release about VDSL
Systems Inc. lauching its U.S. operations to
enable telecommunications carriers and service providers to deliver
voice, data and video content to businesses and consumers at speeds
up to 30 times faster over traditional copper telephone lines. “VDSL Systems was established in Finland, home of Linux creator Linus Torvalds, and a hot bed for
telecommunications companies such as Nokia.”

From the humor site Segfault: “Tux the Linux Penguin and Beastie the BSD Demon have been killed as part of the effort to prevent the
spread of Hoof-and-Mouth disease across England.

Tux and Beastie were on a walking tour of the English countryside yesterday when the farm they were
passing through was quarantined upon finding Hoof-and-Mouth present in several of the pigs. The
English Minister of Agriculture ordered all animals on the farm destroyed and burned.”

Reuters reports that file-sharing firm Aimster, acting on a request from Napster, has removed from its Web site a
program based on pig Latin that enabled Napster users to get around
court-ordered restrictions on the popular song-swap service. More from TheStandard.com.

Wired.com reports on Apple planning to discontinue the Cube. Apple has apparently disbanded its Cube development team and bought back $3.5 million worth of the
high-design machine from CompUSA.

The San Fransisco Chronicle reports that Napster’s Wednesday court-ordered deadline to block 135,000 songs has passed, and the songs are still there. Another version of the story from CBSnews.com.

From TheStandard.com: “During the past five months, dozens of intellectual property
sleuths have been trying to find enough evidence to debunk
one controversial patent: the patent that Amazon.com
(AMZN) has on the process of using just one mouse click to
place an online order.

The reward for finding such evidence? Ten thousand dollars
and the undying gratitude of Amazon’s e-retailing competitors.

But every detective failed. While many came close, no one
qualified for the reward that had been offered by technology
guru Tim O’Reilly.” Here’s another story from the same site reporting on some of the reporting about the contest.