By building AIX-based clustering capabilities into Linux, IBM hopes to eventually make it easier for its larger customers to seamlessly mix and match Unix and Linux clusters. This ability, will give corporate IT shops more confidence to deploy Linux for mission-critical applications.

"Myself, Joseph Mallett, and David Jorm have recently begun to take xMach in a slightly more specialised direction, concentrating on disk and i/o for mass storage, network fileserver, and (possibly) forensics applications. With improvements made to Disk I/O, a server setting could also be suitable. I've begun to squash some of the bugs that were left in by previous developers, because I didn't quite understand some workings of assembley constructs inside GCC. I'm taking a trip to Australia to stay with David Jorm and work out details of xMach and do some (hopefully) serious code hacking.

"We have two new uploads. A binary tarball, and a source tarball. With the source... kernel and lites compile cleanly on FreeBSD, user and kernel compile cleanly on Linux 2.4.1 (Slackware). The binary should be extracted in / and will require a little hacking with symlinks, etc., on whoever's part, but they should work. I don't have a test box, all the fixes are compile-time related... But it IS a step in the right direction. By the way, I redid the website so it's a little cleaner."

Boeing on Wednesday bought a 96-processor supercomputer based on the Linux operating system and Advanced Micro Devices processors for use in designing the new Delta IV rocket that launches satellites into space.

Alongside the changes in registration requirements, users will have a slightly different experience in obtaining updates, with a web-based interface that allows them to review changelogs, queue packages for delivery to their systems, and receive zip files of fix collections.

Under terms of the letter of understanding Linux NetworX will maintain their current research and development operation and sales team in Salt Lake City and will broaden their manufacturing and corporate functions with resources available in the EBIZ Technology Center in Houston.

This release adds several new applets including ifconfig, route, pivot_root, stty, and tftp, and also fixes tons of bugs. Tab completion in the shell is working very well, and the shell's environment variable expansion was fixed. Tons of other improvement have been undertaken.

New Internet Computer Company (NICC), has released version 2.0 of the operating system for its NIC: a Linux-based Internet appliance. The enhancements have streamlined the device's usability and improved the ease with which the device can connect to various broad-band and dialup ISP's.

"RC1 is the final form for Progeny Debian's first edition," explains Ian Murdock, president and CEO of Progeny Linux Systems and the founder of the Debian project. "We expect any changes after RC1 to be either bug-fixes or cosmetic improvements."

"RC1 is the final form for Progeny Debian's first edition," explains Ian Murdock, president and CEO of Progeny Linux Systems and the founder of the Debian project. "We expect any changes after RC1 to be either bug-fixes or cosmetic improvements."