From PR Newswire: “SGI (NYSE: SGI) today
announced that Paul F. McNamara has been named vice president of open source
for SGI. In this role, McNamara, 39, will be responsible for formulating SGI’s
plans and guiding its actions as SGI strengthens its commitment to the
Linux(R) operating system and the open-source movement. He will report to
Kenneth L. Coleman, executive vice president of Global Sales, Service and
Marketing, SGI.”

From PR Newswire: “SteelEye(TM) Technology
Inc., a leading application reliability company, today announced an enhanced
Linux version of its LifeKeeper(R) Next Generation Enterprise Reliability(TM)
platform that allows enterprises to quickly implement cost-effective
high-availability clustering solutions to maximize uptime of business-critical
applications.”

A post on use Perl; announces the release of perl version 5.6.1-trial 2, including a download link and more information.

A press release at Linux PR tipped us to the latest big announcement from the Free Stardards Group. Beta version 1.1 of the Linux Development Platform Specification (LDPS) is now available for review at freestandards.org. LDPS aims to create common references that enable easy portability of applications between available Linux distributions. After a two-week review of the beta version of LDPS, the group will release the official 1.1 version.

From Maximum Linux: “Good news, Eazel release Preview Release 3 (PR3) of Nautilus today. Bad news: it still doesn’t work on Red Hat 7.0 (unless you’re a hacker, or so we’re told). And who’s the biggest name at Eazel? Well that’d be Andy Hertzfeld, co-founder of Eazel, old-school Mac GUI programmer, and self-proclaimed “software wizard”, who sat down with us to give us some details of what’s the come with Nautilus.”

ZDNet News spoke with Microsoft product manager Doug Miller who proclaimed that his employer is “not at all worried about (Linux) from a techological standpoint.” or at least one of its product managers, says that people who use free software are actually doing themselves a “disservice in the long run.” Remember, folks: you’re only hurting yourself if you haven’t paid Microsoft for a server license.

PC World reports on a Linux conference tradition, the Golden Penguin Bowl. Gather the self-defined geeks on one end of the room, the self-defined nerds on the other end of the room, and wait to see who in each group is the first to do an unintentional impersonation of the comic book shop owner from The Simpsons. Well, not exactly — but do click through to find out who answered the most technical questions correctly this time around.

And the winner is… Samba. CMP’s Tech Web reports that the Open Source networking effort has won this year’s $25,000 IDG/Linus Torvalds Community Award. Samba team member Andrew Tridgell was somewhat modest in describing the origins of his project: “This was something I did while I was procrastinating the stuff that I was supposed to be doing.”

LinuxPR draws this press release, telling the world that Best Linux T-1/2001 will be available sometime next week. This latest version of Best Linux includes Linux kernel 2.4.1, a kernel so new that the ink used on its own announcement is barely dry. If you’re in Tampere or Helsinki, Finland, Linkoping, Sweden, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Melbourne, Australia, or Tallinn, Estonia, be sure to stop by your friendly neighborhood SOT (parent company of Best Linux) and pick up your very own shiny new Best Linux CD.

ABC News thinks that there just might be something to this Linux thing, what with that big conference in New York this week and established companies like IBM tossing in a few billion dollars to promote the Open Source operating system. This means that corporate America won’t be far behind.