Japan to spend 1 billion yen on Linux, Feb 07, 2003

Japan plans to spend about 1 billion yen (US$8.3 million) funding Asian software developers working on the open-source Linux operating system for consumer electronics goods, an official said Wednesday

Overall, SuSE Linux 8.1 presents a nicely polished, powerful, and fairly easy to use desktop GNU/Linux distribution. Sadly, numerous issues that we encountered make it seem like a step backwards from SuSE Linux 8.0 in many ways. While organizations considering adopting SuSE for the first time should probably go with SuSE Linux 8.1, we see no reason for those using 8.0 to take any risks in moving up to this release

Picking a Linux cluster to run Oracle, for example, can come with many of the obvious benefits often tied to the Linux space. Customers can hook together a number of relatively powerful but low-cost Intel-based servers all running an inexpensive operating system. If a server fails or the company needs to expand its network, the price of adding new servers can be substantially lower than that of adding a new SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) Unix system, analysts say.

Gnome 2.2 arrives about five months after the landmark 2.0 release. It includes a number of new features, such as context-sensitive menus that call up other applications and "properties" dialog boxes that display detailed information for media files.

The new kernel series has been in development for a while, and Linus Torvalds declared a feature freeze for the old, established series last fall. Most people expect to see the 2.6 version released sometime in 2003, though an exact date is still up in the air.

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