The new release of Mozilla is out, fixing some major crash bugs, adding context sensitive help and a fully integrated Security UI.

Here's a collection of Microsoft items related to news regarding the court vacating Microsoft's breakup. The biggest development is, of course, that Microsoft may be willing to make a deal, and that the coalition of state attorneys general that drove much of the case may be willing to come to the table for resolution. Reactions to the ruling range from relief to angry defiance, as this sampling shows.

MozillaQuest Magazine reports thats "Caldera International has two new Linux products plus a new Linux-savvy UNIX product, OpenLinux Workstation 3.1, OpenLinux Secure Internet Server, and Open UNIX 8. OpenLinux Workstation 3.1 is a Linux desktop operating system (OS) based on the Linux 2.4.2 kernel. It is expected to start shipping on June 30, 2001. Open UNIX 8 brings a Linux "personality" to the UnixWare 7 kernel. The idea here is to better enable Linux programs to run on UNIX."

K12LTSP is an easy to install, Linux based terminal server package designed for schools. It comes ready to run with lots of programs for classroom use. It works with low maintenance, diskless workstations that are immune to viruses and mischievous student tampering. K12LTSP is based on RedHat 7.1, StarOffice from Sun microsystems and the Linux Terminal Server Project.

The cleaner meaner, grammaticaly correct Gnome Basic. It transpires lots of work has got done recently, so what better than a new release.

Is Microsoft preparing to port part of its .Net platform to Linux? Beta testers and developers think so, saying there is growing evidence that the Redmond-based software giant may well ship a smaller version of its .Net common language runtime on operating systems other than Windows, including Linux and Unix.

IBM has announced two new eServer systems that offer small and medium-sized businesses access to mainframe and self-healing technologies. The new IBM eServer xSeries 232 and 342 include intelligent management features that support IBM's Project eLiza initiative, a multi-billion dollar program aimed at creating a world of self-managing servers requiring little or no human interaction with the goal of making computing networks as easy to manage as today's kitchen appliances.

The primary goals of this release are to provide a preview of KOffice 1.1 and to involve users and developers who wish to request/implement missing features or identify problems. Code development is currently focused on stabilizing KOffice 1.1, scheduled for final release late next quarter. Though this release is a beta, it is substantially more stable and feature-complete than KOffice 1.0, which was released together with KDE 2.0 in October 2000.

The new open source consulting services target areas where open source technologies can greatly improve the strategic use of IT infrastructure through more effective delivery of business requirements. Services include: Linux migration and integration services, Open source Web infrastructure services and Open source strategic opportunities services that enable IT executives to review and evaluate the benefits of open source technologies, and to explore opportunities to pilot open source solutions within their organization.

Trolltech has created a brand-new noncommercial License that will allow Windows developers to use Qt, the cross-platform C++ GUI application development framework, at no charge. The Non-Commercial License lets developers download Qt to either evaluate the framework before purchase, or to create software for personal use on the Microsoft Windows platform. Qt currently supports: Windows 9X, NT, 2000, ME; Linux; all major versions of Unix; embedded Linux; and later this fall, Mac OS X.