Hand me the Linux, Apr 03, 2001

If you've been in the market for a new handheld computer recently, chances are you've been weighing two options: Palm or PocketPC. But what about Linux? That's the question Bradlee LaRonde asked himself about three years ago when he first started toying with the idea of using the alternative operating system as the basis for a handheld computer.

Linux Online also interviewed Brad LaRonde this week. Check out our interview here

A class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday accuses Linux software leader Red Hat of misleading investors in relation to its initial public offering. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in New York, accuses Red Hat of filing a misleading prospectus in connection with its April 1999 IPO by not fully disclosing how underwriters Credit Suisse First Boston and Goldman Sachs planned to sell their shares.

The Linux development community is committed to shortening the development cycle for the next major kernel release, but so far it hasn't come up with any timetables. The two-year development cycle for the 2.4 kernel, which was released in January, "was just too long," said Ted Ts'o, a core Linux developer and principal engineer at VA Linux Systems

Linus Torvalds and 60 of his closet friends met this past weekend to map out development plans for the Linux kernel 2.5. At the invitation-only summit in San Jose, California, the kernel hackers privately discussed what features they'd like to see in the next version of the open-source operating system's core.

With some of the entrepreneurial glamour gone from open-source software, companies backing the cooperative-programming approach are resorting to more traditional means to boost their prospects: the old-boys network. Open-source programming, in which software code may be shared and changed, has been popularized by successes such as Linux and Apache. Now companies backing lesser-known open-source packages are nailing down alliances to help their prospects.

The next version of the Linux kernel, due sometime in mid-to-late 2002, will offer improved support for enterprise, mobile and Internet use, said Ted Ts'o, Linux kernel developer and principal engineer at VA Linux Systems

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