Source code for SashXB for Linux open source project is now available under the LGPL license at Gnome.org, reports Linux Today

Red Hat, Inc. announced today the IA-64 JumpStart Program, which provides all the software, tools, support and training needed for independent software and hardware vendors to quickly develop
solutions for Red Hat Linux on Intel’s new Itanium IA-64
architecture, reports Business Wire.

MSC.Software Corporation today announced that it is to provide scientists, engineers and technical designers with a pre-integrated and optimized turnkey Linux Cluster solutions based on its MSC.Linux appliances and HP VISUALIZE Personal Workstations from Hewlett-Packard Company, reports Business Wire.

Linux PR reports, Compaq Computer Corporation today announced new Linux products and partner-based offerings that will enable its Linux customers to achieve new levels of enterprise availability, scalability and management.

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Scour.net founder Dan Rodrigues defends his search engine against claims by the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America, who say his service is essentially the same thing as other file-sharing Web sites, according to a Salon.com story.

From an OSopinion column by Tom Adelstein: “Can we
trust corporations who have made questionable or inferior technological decisions in
the past to make better technological decisions in the future? Or will the sway and
tug of marketing … nobody ever got fired for buying IBM … as well as the
reductionist thinking continue to hold?”

From a LinuxPlanet interview with TrollTech CEO Haavard Nord: TrollTech has been vilified by the Free Software community — i.e., the Free
Software Foundation and later the Debian organizers — for not releasing Qt
initially under the GPL. While undoubtedly TrollTech made some mistakes, the
reaction among the Free Software crowd has continued to be shrill and out of
proportion to any complaints they may have. Plus, it’s hard to stay mad at a
bunch of round-faced Norwegians, which (judging by some time spent at the
TrollTech booth at the recent LinuxWorld Expo) seem to make up a good
chunk of TrollTech employees.

Linuxdevices.com takes a look at how far embedded Linux has come in the past year, with information from the just-past Linux World.

The rumor is Intel is about to share its file-sharing vision, based on Napster. eWeek’s John Taschek says that’d be a silly idea.