Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates and his wife Melinda are the most generous charitable donors in America, Business Week magazine said this week, as the couple gave away or pledged a staggering $23 billion -- more than half of their net worth.

This whitepaper published at LinuxDevices describes an approach to solving the "device driver crisis" that plagues both the embedded and non-embedded computer system markets. SciTech, the developer of the "System Neutral Access Protocol" device driver architecture ("SNAP"), says the SNAP approach to device driver development is radically different from traditional methods, and can drastically reduce the complexity of OS- and processor architecture-related device driver support.

The Server Administration Software contains administration software and tools that you can install on a computer other than your server. The following tools will be installed into Applications/Server folder with the exception of QuickTime Broadcaster: Server Admin, Workgroup Manager, Server Monitor, Network Image Utility, Server Assistant, and QuickTime Broadcaster.

AmigaWorld has interviewed Alan Redhouse, the managing director of the Eyetech Group, regarding the AmigaOne motherboards. Alan is trying to push AmigaOS4, LinuxPPC and the AmigaOne boards into new markets. For instance earlier this year he did presentations in Taipei and Beijing.

"A reasonably good start for a very promising Linux distro. Tinkerers should give it a shot. Those wanting a bug-free experience should skip this version and wait for the next release" says ZDNet's Jim Lynch (our review is here). "Red Hat's Desktop Linux Isn't Going Away" says eWEEK too, while a Linux developer and user wrote an Open Letter towards Red Hat.

"Windows is the McDonald's of operating systems. You know it's not good for you, but you can't help but buy it at least once in a while. And it's the same everywhere you go, which is the real key to Microsoft's success." eCommerceTimes says. Elsewhere "Less than two years ago, Lynanne Fowle, a Holly Springs charter high school director and mother of five, made the switch. She said that security and costs were the two main reasons she jumped ship from Microsoft" the LinuxInsider says.