At kt.zork.net: “Welcome to KC KDE! This Cousin covers events on the KDE developer mailing list. A lot of things are
happening on the desktop lately, and it’s very exciting. Hopefully KC KDE will help folks keep up on
these events.”

At LinuxPR: Building on the success of LINUX
Business Expo at COMDEX Fall 2000, Open Source Development Network
(OSDN.com) and COMDEX are collaborating to produce the best LINUX
Business Expo yet at COMDEX Chicago 2001, April 2-5 in Chicago.

With a focus on “Open Source Answers for Business,” OSDN will present a
three-day program with three separate conference tracks aimed at providing
attendees with the right point of entry into the world of Open Source. (NewsForge is part of OSDN.)

It’s at LWN.net and includes typo fixes; merging the first block of OHCI non x86 support; and added Edgeport USB serial support.

The Straits Times reports on a lawsuit accusing seven
investment banks of collusion and violating antitrust laws in their allocation of
sought-after initial public offers.

“Lawyers in this latest case said that while other class-action suits have been
filed since the probe was announced, those were all based on the offering of
one stock, VA Linux Systems.” (VA Linux owns NewsForge.)

From BusinessWire: RidgeRun, Inc., today announced that it has successfully added support for
Bluetooth Service Discovery Protocol (SDP) to the OpenBT Linux Bluetooth stack sponsored by Axis Communications.
SDP will be incorporated into RidgeRun’s upcoming distribution of DSPLinux which is focused on Texas Instruments’ Digital Signal
Processors.

From LinuxPR: Starship Traders, a multiplayer strategy game that runs under Linux, is now
available for download. It is free for non-commercial use and is playable from
any operating system.

From LinuxPlanet: “The Windows Emulator for Linux,
WINE, is often proposed as a solution for migrating Windows apps to the Linux platform. But WINE’s
technology is tricky to use and not entirely stable at this point in its development.

VMware is another potential solution for getting this task done, but this solution, while stable, is often
hugely processor-intensive and a bit slow to use.

Other solutions, however, exist for the Linux users, both corporate and home, who absolutely must have
their Windows applications.”

InfoWorld has a story about German Net filtering company Webwasher.com releasing a new version of its software for the Linux and Windows operating systems that can filter out all of the new, larger Web site ads that were launched last month.

From PR Newswire: Digital Creations,
developers of Zope, the leading Open Source Web application server
announces the release of its new Content Management Framework (CMF). CMF makes
it easy to rapidly build content management systems so even non-technical
users can maintain systems, safely speeding content creation and publication.

Interactive Week reports on the detective efforts of businesses to track down copyright and trademark infringement “as never before.”