"Caldera is obviously trying to get the best of both worlds by claiming to be an open source company and still introducing a per-seat licensing model. We have no plans to introduce per-seat licensing," says Colin Tennick, the European VP of Red Hat.

MontaVista Software, a company selling Linux for non-PC computing products, signed up Toshiba and Ericsson as major new business partners but laid off 20 percent of its staff.

"A modestly performing 32-bit RISC processor with a pedigree dating back to the early 1990s is quietly gaining momentum in the marketplace, having hitched its star to the Linux platform."

Miguel de Icaza speaks on why he is leading an open source project to implement Microsoft's .NET development framework on Linux. Mono was unveiled recently, and promises to provide an alternative toolchain and execution environment for .NET developers. It'll run on Linux and Windows first, but should be portable to almost any platform. It's currently being developed on Solaris.

Miguel de Icaza speaks on why he is leading an open source project to implement Microsoft's .NET development framework on Linux. Mono was unveiled recently, and promises to provide an alternative toolchain and execution environment for .NET developers. It'll run on Linux and Windows first, but should be portable to almost any platform. It's currently being developed on Solaris.

People in developing nations could soon be using modified Linux game consoles equipped with satellite links to help them learn about vital health issues. The project, sponsored by Western and Asian business leaders working through the World Economic Forum, aims to narrow the so-called digital divide.

"EPM is a software packaging tool for all versions of UNIX that generates software and patch distributions in various formats, including rpm and deb ... EPM also includes a graphical "setup" program that can be provided with your distributions to make installation of more than one package a snap."

"EPM is a software packaging tool for all versions of UNIX that generates software and patch distributions in various formats, including rpm and deb ... EPM also includes a graphical "setup" program that can be provided with your distributions to make installation of more than one package a snap."

CUPS 1.1.9 adds support for AIX, adds several performance improvements to the scheduler, adds support for the Apache Include directive, adds new HideImplicitMembers and ImplicitAnyClasses directives, stores user-defined options as differences from the system-defined options, adds a "natural-scaling" option for printing images, and fixes a number of small bugs.

"The main thrust has been the removal of a number of changes in the core kernel which were required for to support the journalling of data. This has caused some duplication of core code within ext3, but it's not too bad."