ActionAid, a poverty relief organisation, which operates in 30 countries, is on the brink of the move after becoming increasing fed up with the effort needed to deal with recent virus outbreaks, and suffering infection from the Emmanuel bug.

Analysts say, Microsoft's decision to show the Windows 2000 source code to its large corporate customers was influenced by the open-source movement and the success of the Linux operating system. It is also an effort to reassure customers that are putting their trust in Microsoft for critical business operations.

"Hardware giant Intel, which has thrown its considerable weight behind the Linux operating system in recent months, is looking at creating a European Linux research laboratory."

"With this acquisition, Lineo is enhancing its position as the first and only provider of Linux-based development tools for digital television products."

The PLDE allows users on a Linux PC or workstation to develop applications for any Concurrent PowerPC-based real-time computer system. It offers a convenient and economical way to utilize the extensive features of Concurrent compilers and real-time GUI tools.

F-Secure Anti-Virus for Firewalls on Linux provides unsurpassed detection and disinfection of Internet-borne viruses and malicious code passing through OPSEC CVP firewalls.

Linux NetworX has announced an exclusive partner/distributor program, the LNXI Cluster Partner Program, to resellers and VARs (value added reseller) to provide customers with fully integrated cluster solutions by Linux NetworX.

"A SuSE-internal security audit conducted by Sebastian Krahmer and Thomas Biege revealed several overflows as well as insecure file handling. These bugs have been fixed by adding length-checks and securing the file-access."

Sharp Electronics, which leads Japan's market for handheld electronic organizers, plans to challenge Palm and Microsoft on their home turf by introducing a device running on the free Linux operating system. It will be the first major maker of PDAs to introduce a Linux OS-based PDA.

freeVSD, the GPL virtual server solution for Linux, is announcing the release of version 1.4.6 which now provides full support for Red Hat 7.0, and includes the latest true `thin client' administration interface for virtual servers, VSDClient.