An Apple developer noticed a cryptic mention of the PowerPC 970MP processor while using Apple's MONster utility. Update: Everything Apple has even more evidence.

MadPenguin published a two-page review on VectorLinux 5 SOHO.

Today we feature a mini-interview with Chris Schlaeger of SuSE and Novell. Chris answers some questions about SuSE 9.3.

PalmSource is preparing to launch an OS for budget-priced cell phones--but the devices that use it won't be true Palms.

From a stable and reliable Linux operating system to a complete set of desktop applications—including an office suite, a Web browser, an instant-messaging client, multimedia viewers and graphical software—SUSE LINUX Professional 9.3 has it all.

A preview of Ubuntu Linux 5.04 has been released. This release comes with GNOME 2.10 which was released yesterday.

Jaluna has partnered with Accelerated Technology, a division of Mentor Graphics, on a combined Nucleus/Linux offering that the companies claim allows real-time Nucleus applications to run side-by-side with Linux applications on the same system, without additional hardware, and without requiring changes to the applications.

NetBSD's Alistair Crooks has posted his monthly account of the changes to the Packages Collection in February 2005 to the tech-pkg mailing list.

The next instalment of Windows will act as the cornerstone in MS’ ongoing battle with IBM & Linux.

Avalon is the new rendering and compositing technology that Microsoft is developing primarily for Longhorn (Microsoft's next release of Windows) that is available in beta form on Windows XP.

Orange Crate has an interview with Jim Curtin, CEO of Win4Lin, a company that makes software that allows users to run Windows from within Linux. The company recently restructured, and they have big plans to "play a lead role in un-coupling applications from operating systems and hardware dependencies" and "make end user computing as cost-efficient, stable and secure as possible."

As far as I am aware, this is a world first, a live-CD that saves back to the CD at the end of the session. So how does it work? "Boot the PC with the multi-session CD inserted in the CD-burner drive -- thus, Puppy automatically knows which drive is the CD-burner, in case you have more than one CD/DVD drive. Then you use Puppy in the normal way. At shutdown, all the changed files in your home directory are saved back to CD. That's it. Next time you boot, all the personal files are restored."

Novell is releasing SuSE Linux Professional 9.3 today. It includes the new desktop search utilty Beagle, and support for the iPod.

The Least Privilege Model in Solaris 10 allows for finegrained management of process and user privileges within Solaris 10. Amy Rich has written a nice introduction for Sun's bigadmin website.