The Contiki operating system is a multi-tasking operating system with full TCP/IP support. Contiki is designed for memory contrained devices ranging from tiny 8-bit embedded microcontrollers to old 8-bit homecomputers like the Commodore 64. Here is a screenshot of Contiki rendering the mobile/text-mode version of OSNews (double sized, C64 only does 320x200 in this mode).

It has not been announced on Linare.com, but it appears that Linare Linux 2.0 has been uploaded to Ibiblio.org and its mirrors, and is available for free download. We will post a review of Linare PRO soon.

yellowTAB has announced that they are making Zeta's user license more family-friendly. Under the new license clause, members of a single family residing in the same household can use a single copy of Zeta on multiple computers for non-commercial purposes. Elsewhere, Adi Oanca of the Haiku OS project is participating on the App/Interface Kit development and HaikuNews interviewed him.

Lycoris, today announced that it has commenced shipping Desktop/LX 1.4 to customers after a brief delay in the original release schedule. It is available in Personal, Deluxe and PowerPak editions.

AppleInsider has got info about a new build of Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" seeded to a few select developers. Screenshots show iChatJabber support, new "Family Controls," and advanced Safari RSS features.

Red Hat's Havoc Pennington announced the "Stateless Linux" project for Fedora, an interesting new philosophy as to how software should be developed/behave. Here is the PDF with all the details.

"A number of software makers and well-known IT vendors have agreed to endorse the Free Standards Group's latest Linux standard to help create common ground for companies building open-source technologies." Read more about the Linux Standards Base 2.0 at News.com.

Novell asserts that the future of software development will not be found in the open-source or proprietary models, but in one that combines the best of both worlds--or "both source" as the company calls it.

Visopsys 0.42 has been released with various touch-ups and bug fixes, plus partition formatting in the Disk Manager, and other GUI enhancements.

JRuby combines the object-oriented strength of Smalltalk, the expressiveness of Perl, and the flexibility of the Java class libraries into a single, efficient rapid development framework for the Java platform. This article introduces JRuby, a sophisticated addition to your Java development toolbox.

Novell Inc.'s SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, which began shipping last month, is the first version of SuSE's enterprise-oriented distribution that has shipped since Novell acquired SuSE Linux AG earlier this year. Read the review at eWEEK.

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is proud to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.3-BETA4. This is the fourth BETA of the 5.3 release cycle. It is intended for early adopters and those wishing to help find and/or fix bugs.

Nemerle is a hybrid (functional, object-oriented and imperative) programming language for the .NET platform. The key features of the language include C#-like syntax, easy access to functional, object-oriented, and imperative features, powerful code-generating macros, variants, pattern matching, static and on-demand dynamic typing, and type inference. This version makes the Nemerle language full CLS consumer and producer. A number of non-CLS features are also in place, for C# compatibility, but CLSCompliant attribute checking is not yet supported. Any lack in CLS compliance is a bug now.

A couple of speakers at last week's AUUG conference drilled home several messages that those in the Linux and open source communities with serious commercial aspirations must accept in order to make serious headway into the corporate and government sectors.