Official download site is now http://www.xMach.org/src/.

Ports now for HP PA-RISC, SGI MIPS, Sun4u, and i386

(official description Not -too- shabby. Still need developers).

A online wishlist - feel free to ask for everything you could ever

want!

A newsgroup - alt.os.xmach. That's the best place to ask

questions or send bugs.

A few new 'ideas' have been announced. There's more

coming this week.

After full integration of the RPM patches into APT, it will have

the potential to become the standard package management

frontend for Linux, shortening the gap between distributions

and reducing incompatibility across distributions for at least

one important system administration tool.

The new release provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system.

SGI has invested in SuSE, part of what the two companies are calling a "strategic partnership" to grow the open source OS' applications market. The duo said that the alliance will also involve their close co-operation on the "development, deployment and support of the Linux OS and infrastructure code".

Researchers at the Carnegie Institution in Washington are using an Alpha Linux Beowulf Cluster -- driven by technology from API NetWorks, Inc. -- to dramatically speed up the mind-boggling calculations that are gradually edging them nearer to an understanding of the origins of life.

Thanks to the imminent arrival of MacOS X, the next generation of Apple's Macintosh operating system that incorporates substantial portions of the BSD code base, self-described "BSD bigots" are contemplating a future in which more computers users run versions of BSD than rival Linux.

Thanks to the imminent arrival of MacOS X, the next generation of Apple's Macintosh operating system that incorporates substantial portions of the BSD code base, self-described "BSD bigots" are contemplating a future in which more computers users run versions of BSD than rival Linux.

Red Hat has dropped support for Sun Microsystems' Sparc chips for its new version 7 of Linux, saying there just wasn't enough interest in the product. The move whittles down Red Hat's product line to Linux software for Intel and Compaq Computer's Alpha chips, though the company plans support for several IBM servers with different CPUs.

Dell Computer has invested in Eazel, a company devoted to making Linux easier for average computer users, and will include its software on Linux desktop and laptop computers. As part of the deal, Dell and Eazel will share revenue from customers who sign up for Eazel's services

Caldera Systems has hired open-source guru John Terpstra to be its technology vice president in a push to link the company with outside open-source efforts.