A test release of Fedora Core 2 is now available from Red Hat and at distinguished mirror sites near you, and is also available in the torrent. Fedora Core has expanded in this release to four binary ISO images and four source ISO images. This test release is specifically designed for testing the 2.6 kernel, GNOME 2.5, and KDE 3.2. Please file bugs via Bugzilla, Product Fedora Core, Version test1, Architecture i386 so that they are noticed and appropriately classified.

Cooker is a test distro and Mandrake has come up with the idea of using testzilla to formalize hardware testing. What it does is register your hardware configuration with mandrake's bugzilla. Read the full review of Mandrake Linux 10b2 at GUILinux.

Once every three months, Alan Nugent, chief technology officer of billion-dollar software company Novell, sits down with a small group of colleagues to decide what software the company will give away for free.

SCO is giving us their ten cents why customers should use Unixware instead of Linux.

"When we launched our first security newsletter in December, I asked you to send me your comments and feedback so that I could be your advocate at Microsoft for security issues—and you delivered! I appreciate the many e-mail messages with comments and questions, and we will begin answering them this month." Read the rest here by Jeffrey R. Jones, Senior Director, Microsoft Security Business Unit.

On Time specializes in providing software development tools for real-time embedded systems on Intel x86 compatible CPUs. Founded in 1989, On Time has offices in Massachusetts and Hamburg, Germany. On Time offers a complete range of real-time operating systems and development tools for 32-bit flat address protected-mode and 16-bit real-mode environments. Recently the company got a port of SciTech's SNAP graphics suite. Here is an Interview with SciTech's Dave Milici, who was responsible for porting SciTech SNAP to On Time RTOS-32.

With the current release of Mozilla Firefox 0.8, and in the excitement to try out something new, FlexBeta decided to compile 13 Reasons To Use Firefox Over IE.

Get the latest DB2, Lotus, Rational, Tivoli, and WebSphere Linux code from IBM on DVD, for free. This is the fastest way to get access to all of IBM middleware that has been ported to Linux. The package contains almost 8 GB of IBM tools and products at no charge, including Rational Rose and PurifyPlus, WebSphere Studio Site Developer, WebSphere SDK for Web services, WebSphere Application Server, DB2 Universal Database, Tivoli Access Manager, and Lotus Domino Server.

Macslash reports that handheld maker Palm announced today that they were no longer going to develop Palm Desktop for the Mac platform, freezing the current version as their final. UPDATE: PalmSource today introduced Palm OS Cobalt & Garnet, previously know as Palm OS 6.

Whether you are developing at the enterprise level or for the smallest venues, IT is all about automation, finding ways to allow these infernal machines to do things better, faster, or in many cases, "at all" than the human alternatives.

Microsoft has warned that a "critical" flaw in the latest versions of its Windows operating system could allow hackers to access a person's computer. "This is one of the most serious Microsoft vulnerabilities ever released" said Mr Maiffret.

Ignore the comments about the value of Psion shares: concentrate on what Psion is going to do with all the money it got from selling its interest in Symbian. The answer is probably: "Linux portables" but we'll find out later this year for sure.

The legal battle with Microsoft that has seen Linux reseller Lindows running a gantlet of courts over trademark infringement seems, for the moment, to be going in the open-source company's favor.

Resilient is a secure, object-oriented, serviceable, real-time software platform for embedded devices. The platform enables developers to debug, profile, and update code running on embedded devices in the field, vastly improving reliability and development productivity. The compactness makes it possible to fit the virtual machine, core libraries, device drivers, TCP/IP networking stack, and user applications in less than 128KB of memory. The Resilient Technology Preview was released last week. It can be downloaded for free for non-commercial use.