From PR Newswire: LynuxWorks, Inc., a provider of
open source and true real-time embedded solutions for the post-PC era, today
announced SynergyWorks, a program for third-party solution providers working
with LynuxWorks technology and services.
SynergyWorks is an enhanced version that replaces the previous program,
SynergyPartners.

An anonymous reader tells us that NukeNews (http://nukenews.com) opened today.
NukeNews is a news site focused on news about Linux, open source, free
software, science, technology and many more.
The news web site in completely interactive, this means that visitors
can participate on discussion, reviews, comments, surveys, forums, etc.
creating a good space to share ideas and thoughts about this wonderful
Linux world.

We focus specialy on how good is Linux operating system, not because
other operating systems are bad but because Linux is really good, we
also encourage new developers to take this way beceause we think that
the free software and the open source is the future, and it’s happening
right now.

Linux isn’t more a phenomenum, it’s a reality and it is changing the
world of Information Technologies as we know it.
NukeNews visitors will have the power and the freedom to write their
opinions and let the world know about it. We don’t believe in censorship,
we believe in freedom, we believe that the Internet changed a lot of
things, but we can expect much more changes in the future. And because
that changes we created NukeNews for all your information needs.

We manage a lot of services like Articles, Reviews, User’s comments,
surveys, discussion forums, Private Messages, and a lot more.

NukeNews was created by Francisco Burzi (aka Nukelite), well know in
the community for his Web Portal System called PHP-Nuke, distributed
under GNU/GPL license and with a very big group of users and fans
around the world, in fact more than 300 web sites, and growing, are
powered by PHP-Nuke system.

NukeNews is powered by PHP-Nuke software also and is the answer on the
net for the lack of community friendly content. Sometimes some people
named Linux community as “guerrilla”, but the reality is far from that
concept, we are a community like no other, we are users of the best
operating system of the world, and we need to assume our rol, our
possition on the IT.

So, let’s change the world a little bit with our service and our ideas.

Francisco Burzi
NukeNews Founder (http://nukenews.com)
PHP-Nuke Developer (http://phpnuke.org)

NetworkWorld examines the state of Open Source databases, saying they not yet be “armor-clad enough for use as back-end corporate data stores,” but observers say those at LinuxWorld are on the right track.

ComputerWorld has more on LinuxWorld: “The release of the new 2.4
kernel of the Linux operating system won praise from IT managers. But that won’t win Linux a place in their
desktop deployment plans.

Bob Ruddy, owner of Cycle.org Inc., a Web hosting and networking firm in Doylestown, Pa., said the new
expanded kernel on its own won’t convince many smaller and midsize companies to make the jump from
Microsoft Corp.’s or other vendors’ operating systems.”

ComputerWorld follows up on reports that Microsoft’s Doug Miller, a Microsoft .Net program manager, was at LinuxWorld.

” ‘Obviously, Linux is one of those ones getting a lot of press and a lot of hype,’ Miller said. But beyond the
hype of the upstart operating system, Microsoft doesn’t appear to be too worried, he said.”

From PR Newswire: Sixty-three products and services
have been named finalists in the first annual eWEEK eXcellence Awards program,
the online competition to select the best new e-business products and services
introduced during 2000. The program gives enterprise IT professionals a
comprehensive benchmark for assessing the products and services that enhance
various aspects of electronic commerce. In the “intrusion defense and response” category is Pitbull LX for Linux.

Australian IT reports on efforts to protect huge record and movie companies from “pirates.” “A Hollywood-backed anti-piracy scheme that
could change how hard drives, recordable DVDs
and MP3 players are built goes too far to
protect the rights of business at the expense
of computer owners, privacy advocates say.

The plan’s developers … dismiss
the concerns. They say
critics fundamentally
misunderstand the
technology, which can
prevent songs or
movies from being copied without permission.”

Warning, RIAA spin doctoring ahead: Neil Young is the latest musician to come out against free music on the
Internet. In an interview with the Argentinean newspaper La Nacion, Young acknowledged that he
hasn’t debuted any of the new songs he’s recorded with Crazy Horse in concert because he
doesn’t want people to hear them before he thinks the songs are ready to be heard.

Salon.com has a column about the work ethic of programmers, and how they tend to think of work more as play that something to put up with.

From PR Newswire: Caldera Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CALD)
today announced Caldera Volution, its Linux-agnostic management product,
claimed the Best Network Server Application Award at LinuxWorld, New York.