CNet has a followup story on an earlier press release about LynuxWorks filing for an IPO. “LynuxWorks changed its name from Lynx Real-Time Systems to emphasize its embrace of Linux, but
the company continues to sell its proprietary embedded operating system, Lynx, and has yet to make
any significant money off Linux. Embedded operating systems are used to run all manner of devices,
from computer networking equipment and airplane radar systems to handheld computers and cell
phones.”

ZDNet News article asks, “should all software be open sourced?”

Reuters on Forbes, Urging against delaying the December
auction of valuable wireless airwaves, Federal Communications
Commission Chairman William Kennard said on Thursday that a delay
would likely push back other auctions of airwaves.

Today, Business Wire reports, SuSE Linux, the
international technology leader and solutions provider in open source operating system,
announced the availability for download of the latest version of the Linux desktop KDE and the
forthcoming release of an update package for KDE 2.0.

In this Technology Review from MIT Magazine of Innovation,
Joe Jacobson contends printed logic
could give rise to an open-source hardware movement where chips are
custom-designed via the Internet and printed by the consumer in about the same
time it takes to print out a Web page. You could, says Jacobson, “download the
chip design from the Web, tie in some modifications from some guy in India, and
boom—out comes the device.â€

As the technology-rich Indian cities of
Bangalore and Madras emerge as the new silicon centers of the far east,
Pittsburgh-based TimeSys Corporation (www.timesys.com) takes a page
from its American experience by launching TimeSys India Private Limited
in the southern city of Coimbatore, from All Linux Devices.

O Linux interviews Sergey Brin of Google.com.

Business Wire on NewsAlert: Force Computers, a Solectron company and a leader in embedded computing,
today announced it will support the Linux operating system on its DECtalk
Text-To-Speech (TTS) speech synthesis technology for StrongARM and Intel
processor-based wireless devices.

The Software Group Limited releases Linux drivers and
administration utilities for its SGP hardware adapter to the public domain under the Free Software
Foundation’s General Public License, version 2, from Linux PR.

LinuxDevices.com offers The Embedded Linux Newsletter for the week of October 26, 2000.