Eazel has been developing software called Nautilus that lets Linux users

manage their computer files, view documents, browse the Web, and tap into

Eazel's online services. On Monday, Sun said it will use Eazel for its own

computers, which use the Solaris operating system instead of Linux.

Through separate efforts, MontaVista and Lineo seem to have come to the same conclusion: education is the key to pushing Linux in the embedded market. To that end both have announced a variety of educational services designed to help students preparing for a career in embedded development and existing developers better understand and work with Linux as an embedded platform.

In a recent "One Linux Day Conference" sponsored by the Development Academy

of the Philippines and the Bluepoint Institute of Higher Technology

Foundation (BIHTP), Linux was showcased as a viable computing solution for

the government, academic sector and the enterprise.

Trolltech is proud to present the release of version 1.1 of the Qt Palmtop

Environment, the leading GUI software package for embedded Linux released

under the GPL.

Linux evangelist Jeff Davis' "small is beautiful" approach to pitching Linux is a winner, as this success story shows.

The increasing popularity of Linux has fashioned a reversal in the fortunes of Red Hat, a front-runner in packaged Linux systems. The company, which has drastically cut down on its losses, is confident of achieving profitability by 2002.

Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik, who said he wasn't really the right person to respond to Linus' charges, also said that Red Hat has been expecting a denunciation like this. The rumbling has been going on for months and in many corners.

Global Linux Partners, a company that funds startups utilizing the free, Internet-based operating system, has signed a letter of intent to pay US$5-million for Corel's Linux line of products, according to sources close to the negotiations. In exchange, Corel will take a 20% stake in the newly formed company.

FreeS/WAN was started 4 years ago by John Gilmore with the goal of encrypting 5% of all Internet traffic by distributing and installing low-cost encryption devices in businesses and homes running Linux and FreeS/WAN software. While this ambitious goal was not met, the project did result in a handy tool for cheaply building a VPN using Linux and commodity PC hardware and network components.

"This is very dramatic ... We weren't doing any Linux one year ago. Now 90 percent of the Web hosting and Web serving we are doing is on Linux. The stability and total cost of the solution is really appealing."