ZDNet's David Berlind examines IBM and Microsoft sponsored XML-based web protocols, and questions the lack of an 'independent standards body' governing these de facto standards, royalties, and more. Berlind writes . . . (more…)

Lineo has released Linux USB Device software, which was developed to support the Sharp Zaurus Linux PDA, under the GNU GPL open source license. The software can be freely downloaded from Lineo's open source website. (more…)

In this guest editorial, Bruce Perens offers his perspective on the Microsoft antitrust settlement with the Justice Department and nine states. Perens describes how Microsoft initially promised to open up technology that would allow competing products to interoperate with Windows, but backed away by creating new licensing in response. Perens writes . . . (more…)

Linux-Kongress 2002 has announced a Call for Papers for the 9th International Linux System Technology Conference to be held September 4-6, 2002 in Cologne, Germany, as well as the overall schedule of the event itself. The 9th Linux-Kongress 2002 will take place from September 4 to September 6, 2002, at the University of Cologne in Germany. (more…)

Writing at Newsforge, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols interviews Lineo CEO Matt Harris about Lineo's new funding and the future of the company. Vaughan-Nichols writes . . . (more…)

LinuxDevices.com founder and executive editor Rick Lehrbaum offers an exclusive sneak preview of Musenki's new wireless access point which is slated to ship to beta customers on Monday, April 15. In this interview, Musenki founders Jim Thompson and Kem McClelland describe the young company's soon-to-be shipped products, discuss the company's vision, and credit Linux and other open source software with… (more…)

Reviewing the new Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 for ZDNet, Colin Duwe examines the benefits of Linux in the device. Proclaiming the new PDA a 'budding competitor' Duwe writes . . . (more…)

A message from the GNU Bayonne project . . .

Dave Sugar, a GNU package maintainer, announced the 8th major release of GNU Bayonne, Free Software for development of enterprise and carrier class applications for the public telephone network. With this release, we have standardized GNU Bayonne as an environment for delivering new and innovative telephony solutions using GNU/Linux and we look… (more…)

From the Gtk# mailing list . . .

Announcing the first public release of Gtk#, codenamed 'Buttonhook'. (more…)

Sebastopol, CA — (press releae excerpt) — Registration has just opened for the 2002 O'Reilly Open Source Convention, one of the most anticipated annual technical
conferences for the open source community. Creators, practitioners, and hackers come together once again at the Sheraton Hotel and Marina in sunny San Diego, California, July 22-26, 2002. (more…)

When Linux NetworX announced a new appliance-like device that is used for managing rack-mounted Linux clusters, called the ICE Box, LinuxDevices.com naturally wanted to crack open the ICE Box's door to find out what's inside. In this article, Linux NetworX Cluster Tools product manager Jason Lowry opens up the ICE Box and takes you on a tour of its internal hardware and software, explaining what it does… (more…)

Reviewing the new Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 for ZDNet, Colin Duwe examines the benefits of Linux in the device. Proclaiming the new PDA a 'budding competitor' Duwe writes . . . (more…)

Back in November of 2000, Jim Thompson, Kem McClelland, Brad Martin, and Jamie Thompson started brainstorming about the idea creating a company to specialize on the emerging market for publicly accessible wireless access points. They reasoned that there would soon be a significant opportunity to supply devices to public access “hot-spot” providers, wireless ISP/infrastructure providers (WISPs), and… (more…)

In this online article from Linux Journal, Ralph Krause explains how to develop a temperature conversion application program that demonstrates some of the features of using GTK+ and the Free Pascal compiler. Krause writes . . . (more…)

[Updated 1:00pm PDT] — (press release excerpt) — theKompany and Xiph.org have teamed up to bring Ogg Vorbis to the Sharp Zaurus. The result of this collaboration is the newly released tkcPlayer, the first audio playback application that supports playback of Ogg… (more…)