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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.

The Windows Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) version 3.0 for Windows 2000-SP3/XP/Server-2003 contains the tools and documentation you need to design, deploy, and support applications on these platforms.

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.

"But now we have absolute confirmation that there is an X86-64 version of Windows for the Hammer platform and rather suitably Microsoft has codenamed it Anvil," TheInquirer claims. The existence of Opteron and Athlon64 processors with support from Microsoft, and even apparently its thorough endorsement, will put some serious pressure on Intel to re-examine its desktop 64-bit strategy" says another Inquirer article.

'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.

Download the developer release of HelloWorld, a new chatting/community environment (with a backend connected to Gnutella for file sharing) that some people say that it could revolutionize the way we see the world via IM. The application currently works under Windows (the company might do an OSX port if there is enough demand for it) and the file weighs 24 MB.

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.

Sun Microsystems may be planning to drop its private-label version of Linux for servers, but the company is still on track with a Linux-based desktop system that should hit the market this summer, the company said. However, eWeek says that Sun has no plans to support Linux or Solaris on Intel Corp. Itanium systems, but the company is evaluating AMD's upcoming Opteron processors, Sun officials said on Monday.

Miguel de Icaza of Ximian tells all about Mono, .NET and dotGNU, Gnome and its relationship to KDE, and much more.

In part one in a series of chats with key members of the Xandros team, DesktopLinux.com gives you an insider's view of the Xandros project philosophy and architecture. Oleg Noskov, Xandros software development manager, talks about domain authentication -- one of the essential keys to integrating with, and eventually migrating from, existing Windows networking infrastructures.

And one more Mandrake Linux 9.1 review. This time is at LinuxOrbit.

DistroWatch has the details of the official release: The press release has all the details with links to further information, such as features and benefits, product description of the Personal and Professional editions, technical details and the package list. Red Hat Linux 9 is available for immediate download to paid subscribers to Red Hat Network (US$60 per year). It will be released to FTP servers on 7 April. Update: Release notes on the newly created "Shrike" mailing list. New Nvidia drivers here. Update 2: How to add the Java plugin on RH 9.