[Updated Feb. 1, 2002 — added photo] New York; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — Thirsty attendees at this year's LinuxWorld Conference and Expo could leave their change at home and order drinks using a PDA or smart card. (more…)

San Diego, CA — (press release excerpt) — Team ASA Inc. today announced the NPWR-DS, the first Single Board Networking Computer (SBNC) implemented with dual 160MB/sec SCSI ports and dual gigabit Ethernet channels. This newest member in Team ASA's NPWR SBNC family is specifically designed for tape drive manufacturers who wish to implement embedded Linux and BSD servers. (more…)

Zaltbommel, The Netherlands — (press release excerpt) — ACTIVE Exhibitions Europe is pleased to announced the next European Embedded Linux Expo & Conference (ELEC), which will be held in Stockholm this March. (more…)

[Updated 10:00 am PST] CNET's News.com video team was doing its usual job of capturing interesting eye candy from the floor this week's LinuxWorld conference in New York City for those of us who were unable to attend the show in person . . .

• Linux bets on interactive TV — CNET News.com correspondent Melissa Francis looks inside the device MontaVista Software hopes to sell to… (more…)

[Updated Feb. 1, 2002] ZDNet has created a special feature devoted to this week's LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in New York City . . . (more…)

The future of the Agenda Linux PDA is very much in doubt. (more…)

New York; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — IDG World Expo (the LinuxWorld show management) and the UniForum Association have announced the winners of awards recognizing achievements by the Open Source community at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, held this week in New York City.

• Best Developer Tools
  Borland: Kylix 2 (more…)

By Stephen Shankland and Richard Shim; special to ZDNet News . . . (more…)

San Francisco, CA — (press release excerpt) — The Open Group announced completion of the joint revision to POSIX and the Single UNIX Specification. The new standard is now available for download, in keeping with The Open Group's policy of open and free access to its standards. (more…)

TheKompany.com has announced a family of Linux “products for the embedded world” which support the Sharp Zaurus 5x series. The following products are either available now or coming soon . . .

• tkcExplorer — an enhanced file manager
• tkcEditor — a serious editor that provides many tools that are convenient for both programmers or end users
• tkcJabber — an… (more…)

New York; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — In a move that will allow true interoperability between Linux distributions and better internationalization capabilities, the Free Standards Group has released Linux Standard Base (LSB) 1.1 and Li18nux 1.0. LSB enhances existing compatibility among Linux distributions and will enable software applications to run on any compliant Linux-based operating… (more…)

Upper Saddle River, NJ — (press release excerpt) — Technical book publisher Prentice Hall and Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) have announced the creation of The Bruce Perens' Open Source Series of books. The series will be created and edited by Bruce Perens, a founding father of the open source community, and will focus on Linux and a broad variety of Open Source topics including BSD, Open Source… (more…)

New York; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — In her keynote address here, Hewlett-Packard Company Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Carly Fiorina declared this the breakout year for Linux, the open source technology that is finding favor with big businesses for its flexibility and cost-effectiveness. (more…)

New York; LinuxWorld — (press release excerpt) — Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. announced today that it is set to release Linux for PlayStation 2 (Release 1.0), targeted toward the Linux development community in North America. Designed as a hobbyist development environment, users can not only run the wide variety of computer applications written for the Linux operating system, but also create… (more…)

The 22-member non-profit Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) today announced a pair of technical working groups aimed at enhancing the suitability of Linux for telecommunications and datacenter infrastructure applications. The two groups, called the Carrier Grade Linux Working Group and the Data Center Linux Working Group, will provide “vision and guidance” to “encourage the development of whatever… (more…)