In the wake of one of the most devastating forest fire seasons in history, the U.S. government has purchased an IBM eServer supercomputer that will provide hyper-accurate weather data to help authorities battle the destructive blazes. The new IBM supercomputer can process 478 billion calculations per second -- 40 times faster than the IBM "Deep Blue" supercomputer that defeated chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997.

A spokesperson for SuSE Inc. announced that SuSE Linux AG's Chief Technology Officer Dirk Hohndel will begin serving as President of SuSE Inc., replacing current President Volker Wiegand. In addition, Holger Dyroff has been appointed Director of Sales North America.

This most notable new feature of APT 0.5 is the automatic configuration of build-dependencies for source packages via apt-get build-dep which will download a source package, satisfy build dependencies, and build it.

To overcome the inertia of its flagship OS, HP has opted to open up HP-UX to allow the best of both worlds: Linux's populist appeal and HP's bulletproof, if staid, image to create HP-UX 11i, Hewlett-Packard's most ambitious operating system to date.

In its typically quiet yet productive fashion, IBM is readying its next-generation Unix, AIX 5L, for an April release. The name alone indicates that the new version marks a radical departure from the current AIX 4.3.3: The L stands for Linux.

"Konqueror is a full-featured and robust web browser and important applications like the mail client (KMail) have greatly improved. The multimedia architecture has made great strides and this release inaugurates the new media player noatun, which has a modular, plugin design for playing the latest audio and video formats."

"Konqueror is a full-featured and robust web browser and important applications like the mail client (KMail) have greatly improved. The multimedia architecture has made great strides and this release inaugurates the new media player noatun, which has a modular, plugin design for playing the latest audio and video formats."

The demo showcased Hard Hat Linux booting from flash memory and supporting standard Linux features such as networking and command shells in a diskless system with minimum memory resources.

"We are pleased to announce the launch of FreeBSD.org.in - The official site for FreeBSD/*BSD in India. The site has news, articles, downloads and links. We request the FreeBSD/*BSD community in India and around the world to contribute to make this site a success and help us promote FreeBSD/*BSD."

"Effective Monday, March 19 2001, five weeks after the release of the new SuSE-7.1 distribution, SuSE will discontinue support for the SuSE-linux distributions SuSE-6.0 SuSE-6.1 and SuSE-6.2."