At LinuxPR: Caldera Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CALD)
Tuesday announced that its new OpenLinux server product, code named
“Project 42,” is entering open beta and will be available for download on March
19 from http://www.calderasystems.com/products/beta/.

From LinuxPR: E-Learning solutions leader
DigitalThink, Inc. (NASDAQ: DTHK) announced today an agreement with IBM
Global Learning Services whereby IBM will offer DigitalThink’s award winning
courses to IBM customers around the world. The agreement includes the ability
to resell the entire DigitalThink catalog and IBM will launch the relationship by
focusing on the Red Hat Linux certification and UNIX curricula.

Posted at Advogato.org: This year the UKUUG Linux Developers’ Conference …takes place at UMIST’s Manchester Conference Centre, from midday Friday, 29th June until the afternoon of
Sunday, 1st July.

“We are inviting speakers on all types of Linux development to contribute. The programme will cover
a variety of subjects, including kernel and desktop development, tools, applications, and networking.
Any topic likely to be of interest to Linux developers and enthusiasts will be considered.”

I’m happy to announce that the 2.2-beta release of the Filesystem
Hierarchy Standard (FHS) is out. The public review begins now and will
end at 09:00 in Universal Coordinated Time, 31 March 2001. After the
public review is finished, we will release FHS 2.2.Please see http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2-beta/review.html for more
details about the public review, to download 2.2-beta, and to see the
CVS log.

I would also like to thank Paul `Rusty’ Russell, editor of FHS 2.2, for
his recent work on FHS. If you see him, please buy him a beer or
whatever his beverage of choice happens to be. The same goes for Alan
Cox for helping us resolve some FHS 2.2-beta issues.

With Rusty is taking some time off, I’ll be handling the beta, so
please
send comments to the mailing list using the procedure described on the
review page.

About the FHS

The FHS consists of a set of requirements and guidelines for file and
directory placement under UNIX-like operating systems. The
guidelines
are intended to support interoperability of applications, system
administration tools, development tools, and scripts as well as
greater uniformity of documentation for these systems. The
Filesystem
Hierarchy Standard is an affiliated project of the Free Standards
Group and is part of the Linux Standard Base.

About the Free Standards Group

The Free Standards Group a non-profit corporation organized to
accelerate the use and acceptance of Open Source technologies through
the application, development and promotion of standards. Free
Standards group projects include the LSB – Linux Standards Base,
www.linuxbase.org, Li18nux – Linux Internationalization Initiative,
www.li18nux.net, , and LDPS – Linux Development Platform
Specification, www.freestandards.org/ldps. For more information on
the
Free Standards Group, visit www.freestandards.org.

From: Daniel Quinlan

From advogato.org: “I dont think it means much to the community at all.
If anything, it might be used against us, and make us lazy. Lets not let that happen!

As far as I can tell from all my investigations of Microsofts .NET, most of which by the pro-Microsoft developers in
my office.
The only thing of true value to the open source/free software community is SOAP. The rest is all server side code
for processing requests. So I dont see much value to us in what they are doing.”

More on the story from TechWeb: “We have always said that we would open source Mobile
Linux,” said Phillip Bergman, a spokesman at Transmeta,
Santa Clara, Calif. “It has already been used in several
specific devices like the Gateway Connected Touch Pad,
but it’s ready for general release now.” Haven’t read enough? Here’s even more from ZDNet.

From Slashdot: “Revista do Linux writes “The final (1.0) version of Nautilus was released this morning. Binaries are available for RedHat 6.x and 7.x, everyone else should try the source code. This version includes a “preview” of the Eazel Services, which includes, among other things, a virtual disk. Grab your copy at the Eazel homepage.”

Over at BSD Today, Jeremy C. Reed shares his experiences building a 100% Open Source music player using BSD (obviously) and the Ogg Vorbis multimedia format.

This week’s wrap-up of mailing list traffic for the GIMP image manipulation tool includes: “Dependencies in 1.4” … “Patches to 1.2.1” … “Win 32 Port and Batch Mode.”

In this issue of Kernel Cousin Debian: “New and Improved dpkg-shlibdeps” … “libc5: In or Out?” … “Mozilla 0.8 Update” … “Weekly Best-Of Summary of debian-user.” Brought to you by Prashanth Mundkur and edited by Zack Brown.