– by Tina Gasperson –
Jae Hwang, engineer and team leader for NuxOne, Inc., makes it clear that his company is in no way affiliated with *that* LinuxOne. Here at LinuxWorld Expo, the Korea-based developer hopes that it can stand on its own with its new mass-mailer, NanoMailer.NanoMailer is a simple mailing program that supports MySQL and Oracle type databases. It runs on the Web, so is platform independent, and supports multiple users. It’s a nice tool for big companies that send out frequent mass emails — NuxOne claims that you can send out a million emails a day with NanoMailer. Can you say spam (or targeted advertising)?

One interesting feature of NanoMailer is its comprehensive reporting ability, with which companies can track the effectiveness of a particular mail message. By creating HTML mail messages with imbedded images, says Hwang, the program can easily report back to the owner how many times the message has been opened by the recipient. Simple concept, but a good indicator of just how intrusive merchants can get once they have your address.

If you don’t like the idea of someone keeping tabs on how many times you read your email messages, it’s a good idea to turn off HTML in your mailer, or use a text-based program like pine or mutt. “Most people have HTML turned on and don’t know it,” says Hwang. “But if it’s text, you’ll have no way of knowing” what the recipient is doing with his email.

NuxOne, the company behind the NanoMailer, used to be known as LinuxOne.co.kr. Are they affiliated with that other LinuxOne? “No, no, no,” said Hwang and an unidentified female companion, waving their arms vigorously as punctuation, at their Linux World booth.

They changed to NuxOne in order to distance themselves from LinuxOne.net, the California company that virtually dropped out of sight after claiming it would file for an IPO in 1999, in the midst of rampant criticism from the Open Source community.

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Another press release from Lineo, courtesy of PR Newswire: Lineo, Inc., a leading innovator in
embedded Linux(TM) systems, real-time and high availability solutions, today
announced it has acquired significant additional products and capabilities
through a merger with Embedded Power Corporation, a leader in real-time
operating systems for digital signal processors and
microprocessors. Terms of the deal are not being disclosed.

From InternetWire: Kargo, Inc., a leading
New York-based wireless infrastructure
software company, today announced the
release of Morphis, its transcoding platform for wireless content. As an open-source
platform, Morphis provides a low-cost means for enterprises to deliver content to the
millions of wireless devices in the market including mobile phones, handheld PCs and personal
digital assistants.

CNet follows up on earlier reports. “Advanced Micro Devices has released a Linux version of a simulator
application to help programmers write software for its upcoming 64-bit chips.”

AMD hopes the Linux faithful will add to the sales its upcoming Sledgehammer chip, with prototypes expected late in the year.

LWN.net has the press release: SOT, the publisher of Best Linux, is going to release the Best
Linux T-1/2001 version next week. The new release contains
the brand new kernel 2.4.1 released yesterday and KDE 2.1
version. This release is part of SOT’s T-1 beta testing
program having over 3400 registered beta testers globally.

ZDNet reports that Lineo, one of the first companies to use Linux on “non-PC devices,” has inked a deal with Force Computers to build “ultrareliable” computers running Red Hat.

From PR Newswire: Lineo, Inc., a leading
innovator in embedded Linux, real-time and high availability solutions, today
launched the SecureEdge hardware brand, the OEM development platform for
Linux-based appliances and devices. SecureEdge replaces the Lineo NETtel name
and will be the basis for future OEM appliances from Lineo. Currently the
product line includes the SecureEdge VPN Router and other SecureEdge brand
products are planned for later this year.

From the humor site, Segfault: “Microsoft chairman Bill Gates’ ego was reportedly ‘crushed’ today by a sarcastic anti-Microsoft comment on
the Internet. Linux user Tim Hampton referred to the company as ‘Micro$oft’ in a story on satirical news site
CoreDump.org, immediately provoking a unprecedented public backlash against the Redmond software giant.

‘I’d always been a loyal Microsoft consumer,’ said one CoreDump.org reader. ‘But after reading that story, I’ve
come to realize the awful truth: Microsoft is a large publically-traded corporation that deals with significant
amounts of money. I’m never buying one of their products again.’

From PR Newswire: SGI (NYSE: SGI)
today announced a new strategic alliance with Turbolinux, Inc., a leader in
high-performance Linux(R) OS-based solutions. The alliance agreement includes
an SGI equity investment in Turbolinux. In addition, SGI and Turbolinux will
work closely in a number of areas, including engineering, distribution,
business development and marketing.

Maximum Linux interviews Corel CEO Derek Burney: “We’re focusing on creative products to unleash the power of Linux. We’re doing this by spinning off Corel OS and way it will
become something better. The OS needs the single vision of one company to grow.”