Red Hat quietly has scaled back its plans to create a Linux and open-source news site, a setback for the company's strategy to diversify its revenue streams and create a dominant Linux Web site.

Linuxcare, the San Francisco-based Linux services provider and currently the open-source community's No. 1 rated soap opera, took a turn for the melodramatic this week.

Adobe FrameMaker 5.5.6 for Linux was released for public beta earlier this spring and it is giving Linux user the newfound ability to create documents via desktop publishing.

With the recent news of the successful lawsuit between Microsoft and the U.S. Justice Department, many are wondering what other alternatives exist to the Microsoft regime. One such alternative is Linux.

The Linux Standard Base (LSB) and Linux Internationalization Initiative (LI18NUX) announced that they have incorporated under the name Free Standards Group. The newly formed Free Standards Group was organized to accelerate the use and acceptance of open source technologies through the application, development and promotion of interoperability standards for open source development.

"This article explains how to easily configure DHCP on a network."

"Asked about the prospects of selling the company vs.

pursuing an IPO, however, Schlein refused to rule out

either prospect. "We're trying to go with what the new

marketplace gives us. Will we be opportunistic? Sure,"

he says. "If somebody wants to acquire the company,

I'll answer the phone call."

"Included with most modern Linux distributions now is a

package called "pilot-link," written by Kenneth Albanowski.

This suite of tools and libraries enables communications

between a Unix environment and a Palm though the serial

port, and is used by many other programs to take

care of the messy details."

Last month, Kalin R. Harvey wrote about the i-opener

and the lessons it could teach companies about how

they can interact with the Open Source community to

everyone's mutual advantage. He's since discussed the

issues with Netpliance directly, and today tells us how

it went.

"The Linux 2.4 kernel is just around the corner and, in

theory, is supposed to be coming to a computer near you

around the time you read this article. So in the interest

of shamelessly tapping into the 2.4 hype and excitement,

this month's column is about the extensions topacket

filtering you will have at your fingertips when you

finally get your hands on the Linux 2.4 kernel."