Is Microsoft poised to sue a Noorda-funded company for intellectual property infringement? The latest round is all about Windows and Linux.

Red Hat announced that Samsung has awarded it a million dollar contract to port the Red Hat GNUpro embedded development tools to the Samsung CalmRISC line of low-power processors.

Will large-system vendors fork the Linux kernel?

Samsung Electronics, Samsung Electro-Mechanics and Lineo announced the formation of a joint venture in Korea. The venture, to be headed by a senior Samsung executive, will focus on providing embedded systems solutions to Samsung Electronics and Samsung Electro-Mechanics.

SGI has released a beta of XFS as a patch against linux-2.4.0-test5, and as a set of RPMs.

Mylex, an IBM company and leading supplier of RAID controllers, today announced that Linux administrators can now monitor and manage their RAID systems using Mylex's Global Array Manager client/server RAID management tools. This Linux-compatible server software is available as a free download.

TurboLinux has teamed with Compaq Computer Japan, OMRON ALPHATEC Corporation and Oracle Corporation Japan to deliver a Linux all-in-one server, which has been adopted by NTT Communications Corp. for its Info-Communications Platform Products line.

The initial version of the Simputer, a low-cost generic mobile computing device, is based on a StrongARM CPU on the Linux platform. To enable rapid development and deployment of application software, the basic development platform is Perl / Tk.

Motorola, through its wholly owned subsidiary Metrowerks, is expected to acquire 3 million shares of Lineo Inc. representing eight percent of the issued capital stock of Lineo Inc. for the aggregate price of US$22.5 million.

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