A significant number of Apple Authorized Resellers were deauthorized this week, objecting to the company's new contracts for dealers. One reseller estimated that about 50 resellers haven't signed the contract, representing over $300 Million in revenue for Apple.

The main commercial company behind NetBSD is Wasabi Systems. The company has contributed advances and big chunks of code to the open source project, while they do offer a boxed release of NetBSD. However, their main business for the company is the embedded market and NetBSD is marketed as an embedded OS. Today, we talk to the Vice President of Wasabi Systems, Jay Michaelson.

Hewlett-Packard has cut prices for its midrange Unix servers by about 20 percent, in an attempt to thwart renewed competition from rivals Sun Microsystems and IBM.

The AROS team has updated their web site with new information about their operating system, plus a number of new screenshots. The team is also looking for active developers to help out the project.

In one of a string of changes, mozilla.org today announced a new plan that would have future Mozilla development work will be focussed around the soon-to-be-renamed stand-alone Phoenix browser and the Thunderbird mail and newsgroups client (also known as Minotaur). Mozilla 1.4 (an alpha released yesterday) would be the last milestone release of the traditional Mozilla browser suite and the 1.4 milestone would replace 1.0 as the stable development path.

This is by no means a technical review - it is just a summary of my experience as I was going along, installing and configuring a Red Hat Linux 9 machine. I installed the standard "workstation" installation on my 2 year old desktop machine. I like Gnome at home, KDE at work, but this review only covers my experience with the default Gnome installation.

The Fiasco Team is pleased to announce Fiasco version 1.0, the first official release of the Fiasco L4 microkernel developed at the University of Technology, Dresden.

John Siracusa from ArsTechnica, author of the famous 'Metadata, The Mac, and You' article, now comes back with an article that describes how a better Finder for Mac OS X should look like and behave.

Check out the top five reasons for moving to Windows 2000 or XP, and find out what you need to do if you decide to make the change. The article is at ZDNet's TechUpdate.

'To cross the chasm, an OS needs a big marketing machine behind it. Linux doesn't have one. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" stuff only goes so far.' Read the editorial by V. Ryan at OSOpinion.

LinuxPlanet reviews Red Hat Linux 9. Another story, by Guru Labs, is written mostly for system admins. Also, MozillaQuest has published a brief interview with Mark de Visser, Vice President of Red Hat, Inc.

IST announced the launch of its Motif to Java Migration Solution, a complete solution for the rapid and automated conversion of legacy C/C++ X/Motif based applications to the Java Platform.

A volunteer group of OS/2 developers has announced REXX/OS, a successor to the OS/2 OS based entirely on the interpreted REXX language that so many considered one of OS/2's best features...

Over at our sister site, NewMobileComputing today: Microsoft's inclusion of Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) in an XP patch, small motherboards for mobile devices, Biofuel cells that could replace batteries, and an exciting announcement from Apple: the iPad! Visit NewMobileComputing for more details.