The iRobot-LE is powered by a Pentium II class processor running the Apache-SSL web server on Linux. Priced about the same as a high-end notebook computer, the iRobot-LE is a fully functional mobile computer.

Loki Software, a publisher of commercial games for the Linux operating system, and Trolltech, a developer of C++ cross-platform GUI application frameworks, announced a strategic alliance to provide business and end-user programs for Linux.

This entire thing is just too absurd and we refuse to play this game.

Making Qt available under the GPL provides a way to resolve one of the free software community's long-standing problems, the problem of the ethical and legal status of KDE.

Trolltech has eliminated a legal barrier between competing graphical user interfaces that have divided Linux users.

Neoware made its name selling thin clients for Windows. Now it has built a new strategy around embedded systems, appliances, and Linux.

Silicon Graphics Inc said that Linux, the open-source computer operating system software that nobody owns, was just right for the country with its vast army of programmers and security minded officials.

In a move that should eliminate a major criticism of KDE as a development platform, Trolltech announced that it was licensing the upcoming free version of Qt/Unix 2.2 under the GPL. Developers will have the option of using the open-source version of Qt 2.2 under either the QPL or GPL license.

IBM AIX 5L raises the issue of how far software distributed under open source/free software licenses can be incorporated into an existing product without triggering licensing issues that would force the release of the entire product as an open source or free software product.

KM vendors turn to this upstart Unix platform as an alternative to Windows.