HP-Bulgaria has started selling desktop PC's with Linux installed. These PC's are targeted at small to medium sized businesses. This is part of the new HP initiative targeting Eastern European price-sensitive markets.

TclCurl, a Tcl extension to access the facilities of libcurl has been released. With TclCurl you can get a URL with FTP, TELNET, LDAP, GOPHER, DICT, FILE, HTTP or HTTPS syntax.

SuSE Linux has announced the release of SuSE Linux 7.1 for the Sparc architecture of Sun Microsystems. It comes with the proven Linux Kernel 2.2.18 as well as the latest Kernel 2.4.2 as a special bonus for technophile users. this version is based on the program library glibc 2.2 and the popular SBUS graphics cards are supported by XFree86 4.0.2.

ASPN delivers tools and knowledge to enable programming with open source technologies. ASPN, launched in multiple levels, empowers a broader class of programmers with open source and boosts programmer productivity. Programmers can develop in the language and platform that maps best to their coding task.

Compaq/Check Point SolutionPaq is a `secured by Check Point(TM) Appliance' integrating Compaq ProLiant servers with Check Point's VPN-1/FireWall-1 software and enabled with firewall high availability software from Rainfinity. The platform is optimized for security applications, running on a hardened Red Hat Linux operating system with all software pre-installed, pre-configured, tested and OPSEC-certified.

The three new servers, the VA Linux 2231, the VA Linux 2241, and the VA Linux 2251, offer advanced remote management capabilities using VACM(pronounced vacuum), VA Linux's open source cluster management software, and augment the vendor's line of ultradense 1U and 2U rack-optimized Linux servers.

According to a Wired report, Adore and Lion are the crowbars in political defacement campaigns by Chinese "hacktivists" protesting revisionist Japanese textbooks and the recent death of a Chinese pilot. Adore and Lion both target exploits most Linux distributors patched well before their advent.

Lineo's SecureEdgeTM Network Attached Storage (NAS) platform is designed to provide OEMs with storage solutions for secure Internet appliances and SecureEdge Firewall, a low-cost network access platform that provides a router, firewall and secure PPTP and IPSec VPN capabilities in a single compact enclosure. These are new additions to the OEM development platform for Linux-based appliances and devices.

"Rekall uses KDE-DB to access whatever database is needed. So instead of supplying a native database format, we've supplied a default database format that is meant to be light weight, easy to use and require no RDBMS experience. This uses common dBase format via an interface which provides SQL functionality."

Hard Hat Linux 2.0 focuses on cross development capability, with tools available on 8 host environments, including Red Hat Linux, Yellow Dog Linux, Suse, Mandrake, TurboLinux, Solaris, native/hosted Hard Hat Linux, as well as under VMWare on Windows NT/2000. The Hard Hat Linux host-target matrix boasts over 420 fully tested and supported combinations!