From LinuxPR: OnCore Systems Corporation,
developer of the OnCore OS, the most powerful embedded OS of its kind, today
began shipping full support of IBM’s PowerPC 405 embedded processor,
Revision D, the latest release of this high-power embedded processor line.
“Based on requests from key customers and prospects, whose designs require
the full use of the hardware IP, OnCore Systems responded by delivering the
most comprehensive 405 processor support in the industry,” announced Chip
Downing, President and CEO of OnCore Systems.

More IBM/Linux news: InfoWorld follows up on earlier reports that Big Blue is “trying to broaden the appeal of Linux to smaller companies” by offering a 10 percent discount on Linux servers that use IBM’s suite of Linux-based middleware.

In case you missed the news, InternetNews.com has a followup story on IBM’s ad campaign featuring Linux.

Linux kernel 2.4.3-pre2 is now available. Download from kernel.org or your nearest available mirror site. Here’s the changelog:-pre2:
– Jens Axboe: fix loop device deadlocks
– Greg KH: USB updates
– Alan Cox: continued merging
– Tim Waugh: parport and documentation updates
– Cort Dougan: PowerPC merge
– Jeff Garzik: network driver updates
– Justin Gibbs: new and much improved aic7xxx driver 6.1.5

-pre1:
– Chris Mason: reiserfs, another null bytes bug
– Andrea Arkangeli: make SMP Athlon build
– Alexander Zarochentcev: reiserfs directory fsync SMP locking fix
– Jeff Garzik: PCI network driver updates
– Alan Cox: continue merging
– Ingo Molnar: fix RAID AUTORUN ioctl, scheduling improvements

LinuxNewbie.org presents a short list of Emacs commands for beginning users.

Avatar writes “Over the weekend Evil3D put in a few updates to the HOWTO section. First up is the addition for a HOWTO for getting 3D performance out of Voodoo4/5 cards under RedHat 7. The second is an update to our BestLinux/NVIDIA HOWTO, covering XFree86 4.0.2 installation as well as the latest NVIDIA drivers.”

From ‘slothmud’: “Setting up a Linux VCR turned out to be a bit easier than I thought it would, but it did take a little time and research. I decided to publish my results so others would benefit from the research I’ve done. There are probably many other ways to do this under Linux, I just happened to get these tools to work well for me.”

Linuxsecurity.com posts the latest edition of Linux Security Week. In this edition: Free security books offer from Guardian Digital; Securing the scene of a digital crime; and building a ‘floppy firewall.’

“ASCIITUX is proud to present its first set of original t-shirts, an ASCII art rendering of Larry Ewing’s Tux the Penguin.” More at LinuxPR

“ASCIITUX is proud to present its first set of original t-shirts, an ASCII art rendering of Larry Ewing’s Tux the Penguin.” More at LinuxPR