A new release of the Nautilus graphical shell and file manager is available. There have been tons of improvements since Nautilus 1.0.2 was released including UI tweaks, and enhancements, and a modification necessary to allow the package to build against Mozilla 0.9.

This month in the SPECweb99 results, Windows 2000 Datacenter scored 8001 conforming connections compared to 7500 conforming connections using Red Hat Linux running the TUX 2.0 accellerated web server. These scores were achieved on nearly identical 8 CPU Dell PowerEdge 8450/700 servers. Linux has performed better than Windows NT for about a year now in the SPECweb99 results and even lead the whole pack for a while.

RLX Technologies has joined the growing crowd of vendors making strides toward ultra-dense, power-efficient servers with the release of its RLX 324 Web server.RLX 324 is a turnkey solution designed to fit into an enterprise's established environment with minimal configuration. Enterprises have the option of configuring ServerBlades to work with Windows 2000 or Red Hat Linux. Both are preloaded and carry a wide assortment of preloaded tools to simplify deployment and improve ease of use.

These release notes describe system requirements, installation instructions, and known issues for the Mozilla 0.9 release.

Caldera Systems Inc has announced the completion of the acquisition of The Santa Cruz Operation Inc (SCO) Server Software and Professional Services divisions, UnixWare and OpenServer technologies. Caldera thus becomes the largest Linux company in the world with sales, support and marketing representation in 82 countries.

The latest report on Woody includes plans to make preview release CD's in the next few weeks, a freeze in June, hopes for completed ports of hurd-i386, MIPS, HPPA, and IA64, and a possible October release.

The latest report on Woody includes plans to make preview release CD's in the next few weeks, a freeze in June, hopes for completed ports of hurd-i386, MIPS, HPPA, and IA64, and a possible October release.

Maryland Gov. Parris N. Glendening is expected to sign a bill that exempts Open Source software from "mandatory warranties" found in the state's Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act, on the urging of Red Hat and the Open Source Initiative. The bill is part of Red Hat's larger effort to work with UCITA advocates to rework parts of the legislation that are distasteful to the Open Source community.

Lineo decides to call "FUD" in this statement, wherein the company maintains that Microsoft is "clearly intimidated and threatened," and stresses its own advantages in the embedded market, where it's been fairly unabashed over the prospects of respecting intellectual property and cleaving to the letter of the GPL.

Bynari's primary target market for Insight is "Fortune 1000" companies which have a population of Linux or UNIX-based technical/engineering employees who need to interact with their Windows PC counterparts, who use Outlook with Exchange server. With Insight, a single UNIX or Linux user can now install Bynari's client software and immediately join the enterprise, without requiring unique support from the Exchange server.