Xandros, Inc., today announced the opening of the beta program for the 2.0 release of its award-winning Xandros Desktop. Users interested in testing Xandros Desktop 2.0 are invited to apply at the Xandros web site. Xandros is also looking for IT administrators considering mass deployment of the Xandros Desktop to test the forthcoming release of Xandros Networks Enterprise. For more info check here.

"Lindows CEO wants a piece of Microsoft": Q&A with Lindows.com CEO Michael Robertson who wants to turn the Linux operating system into a real alternative to Windows--but he's fighting an uphill battle.

A recent study by analyst Evans Data concluded that KDE has a small edge, preferred over Gnome among Linux developers 65% vs 56% (with some respondents using both).

Primates are becoming the latest high-tech outsourcing trend in a collapsing economic market.

The following is an interview with Ola Jensen and Adam Chodorowski, two of the core developers of the Amiga Research Operating System (AROS), a project to develop a open source Amiga OS clone.

Linux World Expo is underway, and Gentoo has announced the release of version 1.4. It's available at the usual mirrors.

In this extended review - "Linux servers battle for enterprise recognition" - InfoWorld compares four different and well-known Linux products dedicated to business environments, mostly for server use: Mandrake Linux ProSuite 9.1, Red Hat Linux Enterprise Server ES 2.1, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server and TurbolinuxEnterprise Server 8. Many tests, including load tests, have been performed on three different systems. This article underlines the overall excellent quality of all these Linux solutions, with notes from 7.6/10 (TurboLinux) to 8.4/10 (Mandrake).

If your computer is having persistent stability problems, it may be bad RAM. Now that Windows is a bit more stable than it was back in the bad old days, Microsoft would like to give users a way to point the finger back at their own hardware if their computer is acting up. It released a memory diagnostic utility yesterday.

"The purpose of this complaint is to demonstrate that Red Hat's technologies do not infringe any intellectual property of SCO and to hold SCO accountable for its unfair and deceptive actions." The article is here. fuzzyping also points to this story.

An anonymous contributor writes "An interesting legal commentary on SCO can be found at web page for the Law Office of Lewis A. Mettler which includes some highly critical comments about SCO, their actions, and their legal approach. Another attorney, Tom Carey warned that SCO needs to include some interesting terms in its new licenses. Otherwise, "SCO will have committed the business equivalent of extortion, assuming they lose their case against IBM..." Mark Radcliffe, from the same firm as Carey, although he appears to have some doubts about Eben Moglen's OSDL position paper, also points out some issues with SCO's position in the same article."

"Microsoft said last week it plans to hire 4,000 to 5,000 new workers and to increase research spending by about 8 percent, to $6.9 billion per year. The company also said it has $49 billion lying around collecting interest. So what should Bill and Steve do with these wondrous resources? My suggestion: Start over." It's radical, but interesting. Check out the rest on zdnet.

From their press release: "Now, yellowTAB presents a fully-functional, fully-featured implementation of ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) for Zeta! Both the API and the user interface for configuring ODBC connections is 100% compatible with the original Windows version and its UNIX clones."

Fleecy Moss has answered 10 new Amiga community questions addressing various topics at the AmigaWorld.net portal. This week AmigaOS4 events are sheduled for New York and Denmark.

InceptionOS, a Linux distribution aimed at full LSB compliance, but not based on an existing Linux distribution, is currently looking for people to participate in the creation of a new distribution. If you're interested, read on.