TurboLinux has announced that computer giant Acer will ship the TurboLinux operating system in the European market on
selected models of AcerPower and Veriton business desktop computers. Read the press release from Business Wire.

Dell has announced first-to-market
availability of Version 7 of the Red Hat Linux operating system on Dell PowerEdge servers
and Dell Precision Workstations worldwide. The press release is from Business Wire.

From column at Sun World: “There’s an old saying, ‘The right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing.’ Sometimes it seems
as if Sun has a split-brain personality, particularly when it comes to releasing Solaris source code.”

LinuxWorld reviews the Omnis Studio RAD tool: “This RAD tool pulls its weight, but still suffers from some bugs and annoying licensing.”

From a Wired.com story about AOL promoting Internet music services: “Ian Clarke turned the world on its head with
the development of Freenet, a decentralized, anonymous
information-sharing application which would dwarf Napster in its
ability to connect users.

What is in doubt is when, or if, the open source programming
will ever be finished and usable by a mass, mainstream audience
living in the point-and-click, AOL world.”

Akopia Interchange, a leading
open source e-commerce software has been selected by Red Hat for inclusion on
Linux 7, Deluxe edition, LACD. The press release is at LinuxPR.

From a review at ZDNet: “Although it won’t single-handedly render Linux palatable to the masses, Nautilus goes a long way toward delivering the sort of desktop experience that Windows and Macintosh users demand. The first preview release of Nautilus shows that Eazel Inc. will bolster the GNOME desktop environment with an open-source file manager and graphical shell that are easy to use and highly configurable.”

e-smith, a provider ofnetwork server solutions for small and mid-sized
businesses, has announced the appointment of IBM veteran John Landry to its board of
directors, according to LinuxPR.

From a 32bitsonline review: “The comic strip User Friendly
(http://www.userfriendly.org), written by J.D.
“Illiad” Frazer, has quickly reached cult status
amongst UNIX administrators, programmers, and
users. Why is this the case? Illiad has a knack
for depicting graphically what?s on everyone?s
mind-that the world of computers has gone
completely to hell.”

Ever wonder what BSD Unix is all about? Chris Coleman, maintainer of the BSD Development Center at www.oreilly.com and editor of Daemon News at www.daemonnews.org on BSD Unix, explains it. The
story is at Inter@ctive Week.