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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA -- SpectSoft, creator of open-source Linux high-end digital disk drive recorder (DDR) software, and Panasas, maker of Linux cluster file servers, joined forces at the 31st annual SIGGRAPH conference this week to demonstrate high-performance Linux systems for the digital video and effects industries. This is Panasas's first demonstration of a system for this application, while SpectSoft, a California-based start-up, announced version 1.2 of their application, RaveHD for Linux, with an enhanced user interface.

For the third interview in our series previewing aKademy we approached Waldo Bastian, whose most recent major project has been the Kiosk framework. Tom Chance and Fabrice Mous talked to him about Kiosk, the new Kiosk Admin Tool, Linux on the corporate desktop and what we can expect from his talk at aKademy. Don't miss the previous interviews with Matthias Ettrich and Nils Magnus.

Dear Rob Enderle, I want to thank you, a supposedly independent IT analyst, for the keynote speech you gave recently at the SCO Forum. It certainly explains a lot of things about where you are coming from: your bias toward the Microsoft and SCO alliance, for one thing; your bias against Linux and free software for another. No longer do any of us -- at Groklaw or anywhere else -- need to puzzle over your motivations. You've made them extraordinarily clear.

This whitepaper from TimeSys discusses how graphical tools can assist embedded Linux developers in creating filesystems and managing application packages and library dependencies. It uses TimeSys's TimeStorm tools to illustrate several points, but is largely vendor neutral in its explanation of concepts fundamental to embedded Linux development.

The coolest and most up-and-coming products and projects usually can be found in the .org pavilion.

Open Source Risk Management (OSRM), a provider of open-source consulting and risk mitigation insurance, announced last week that it has found that there are 283 issued, but not yet court-validated, software patents that could conceivably be used in patent claims against Linux. In that same week, the German city of Munich temporarily put its planned Linux desktop migration on hold due to Linux patent concerns.

The Mozilla Foundation is looking for a world class Build and Release Engineer to be part of the core team that creates Mozilla Product distributions, and assists others in building products based on Mozilla Technology.

View the slideshow presentation of Aurox's newly released Fedora based 10.0 Beta 1 by LinuxBeta.com.

LinuxQuestions.org is proud to announce that it will now host the official forum for DNALinux, increasing its total number of participating distributions to sixteen.

According to a report in ComputerWorld, almost half of Vienna's city employees will be able to use Linux desktops by next year. By adding the choice of Linux for desktops, the Austrian city's information services chief Erwin Gillich is hoping to save money and "become less dependent on Microsoft."

Over the past few years, OSNews has grown into a site that many tech fans visit daily for reviews, opinions, and commentaries on a multitude of issues regarding computer operating systems, including Windows, OS X, Linux, BeOS, and others. Eugenia Loli-Queru has been the editor-in-chief of OSNews during much of its growth and has published numerous articles and reviews on operating systems and issues surrounding the graphical user interface ("GUI" or "UI"). Some of these pieces have been controversial, even more so since Eugenia has very strong opinions about things and is not hesitant to state them. Recently, I had the opportunity to conduct an email interview with Eugenia on her technical background, thoughts on various operating systems, and her opinions on the current state of the operating system GUI.

Linus Torvalds has been called on to help an Australian open-source advocate in a battle to stop local companies from trying to trademark the word "Linux."

Wireless communication on Linux is much more than merely a wireless session at a café.

In a press release sent to NewsForge (and probably every other media outlet in the world) yesterday, IBM announced that consumer electronics retailer Circuit City expects to be running most of its critical day-to-day computing functions on Linux by 2006. (Full text of press release below.)

Linspire and Disruptive Innovations have released Nvu 0.4.0, the latest beta of the standalone version of Mozilla Composer. Based on Mozilla 1.7, this version adds horizontal and vertical rulers for mouse-driven resizing, context menus on tabs, improved toolbar customisation, a document inspector and many other bug fixes. Builds for Linspire, other Linux distributions and Windows are available from the Nvu download page.

LinuxBeta.com has released a slideshow presentation of a desktop installation of Fedora Core 3 Test 1. It will give you a feel for the Core 3 Test 1 desktop without the wait of downloading the .iso images.

What is happening with carrier grade Linux and kernel contributions in this area?

At SCO Forum earlier this month, research analyst Rob Enderle was invited to be a keynote speaker. Mr. Enderle has a reputation for his over-the-top, (to put it kindly) style of technology journalism, yet many who attended the SCO Forum keynote said that the speech he gave was a doozy by even his standards. Howard B. Golden submitted the following editorial to osOpinion/osViews, which addresses some of the points expressed throughout Mr. Enderle's speech.

You can build your own system and save a bundle of money while getting a top notch, high quality PC. By using Linux, you can lower you costs even further by not having to purchase proprietary software which would cost you more than your computer.

Novell, IBM join in effort to implement W3C's XForms recommendation