The Sun-Tomax solution was to get rid of the Windows servers and substitute a cluster of eight Sun servers running Linux sitting in a data-center that is professionally managed in a high-availability environment. Soon, the companies plan to add six more servers to that cluster, according to Klingler.

WindowSizer was just released, a tiling window manager for Microsoft Windows: It picks up where the Tile Windows command leaves off. Useful for viewing multiple application windows. Resizing one window resizes others to maintain a no gap, no overlap efficient workspace. Swap window positions in arrangement with drag and drop. Save common work arrangements to bring back when you like.

First, allow me to say that I have only been using Linux for about 5 months, so I'm a comparative newbie to many in the Linux world. I don't make presumptions to know everything. With that in mind, this review is not geared toward the Linux veteran, but for people who have more curiosity than experience with Linux.

PocketGamer is carrying a story on the successful emulation of Windows 95 and Windows 98SE on the Pocket PC. This was made possible by a Pocket PC port of Bochs, an x86 emulator. Read more in the report over at Slashdot.

Linux Compatible has published a review on Fedora Core 2 with 30 screenshots: "Fedora Core 2 is the latest release of Red Hat's community supported Linux distribution. This release is available on 4 CDs (+ 4 CDs sources) or 1 DVD, and for x86-compatible (32-bit) and AMD64 (64-bit) platforms."

SkyOS 5.0 beta 6 has been released to all SkyOS beta team members. There are too many changes and improvements to mention them all, but many recent news items are newly available in this beta, including the new ISS, improvements to the GUI, fixed partition manager, sticky notes, new drivers and much more. A few screenshots of beta 6 can be found in this thread on the SkyOS forums.

A NY startup selling Linux-based thin-client management software has called foul on HP and Dell for recent efforts to fund computer recycling programs. Symbio Technologies says they stand to sell more new PCs if future diskless clients are destroyed, instead of being donated to schools or resold.

Robert Cringely editorializes on the latest changes inside Apple with the shifts of the execs and the creation of the iPod division. He believes that Apple is exiting the Mac hardware business (maintaining it only until their margins are not met) and it is going to focus on the OS, apps and the music business.

Linux.com has a review of Sun's second release of their GNU/Linux-based Java Desktop System.

An article on GNU/OSS, and how it integrates with the current IT situation. GNU: The New World Order.

Mozilla.org today released the latest milestone of the Mozilla Suite and platform, 1.8 Alpha 1. This release is the first step towards a new milestone plan, outlined below. New in this release is a basic FTP upload UI, better Linux mouse support, and a number of other features. A more complete change log is also available. Builds are starting to become available on the FTP servers currently.

This is part 4 in a four-part series of articles that is roughly a response to "The Magic Cauldron," the seminal work on open source economics written by Eric Raymond. This installment discusses some of Raymond's proposals relating to the manner in which developers will earn money in an OSS economy.

Here is a step-by-step tutorial on getting GCJ working on Mac OS X. It's aimed at Java devs on OS X who probably don't have any experience with configuring and building GCC.

PearPC 0.1.2 was released. Among other things it fixes a bug in the program that crashes MacOS if left idle. OSNews' article with screenshots is here.