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Geronimo, Apache's open source J2EE project, is quietly making a ton of progress. Late last week, after nine months of development work, Apache released its first set of code for Geronimo. Further, Geronimo devs say they will begin self-certification J2EE tests this month, with hopes they'll be fully compliant this summer.

The friendly folks over at LinuxCertified.com were very gracious to send us over their latest laptop, LC2210, loaded with Xandros Desktop 2.0. Here is what we think about the product and the integration between the hardware and software.

Last week two friends of mine from the local Linux Users Group were telling me that while they realize bringing in and helping new users is important, they're more interested in meetings that focus on enterprise-level tech presentations that will help them in their jobs. Is it possible for a LUG to serve everyone?

At a press conference in London today, Red Hat chairman and CEO Matthew Szulik unveiled the firm's latest plans for desktop/client Linux. Longtime followers of Red Hat's march to the desktop are probably already making book on how long it is before the company reverses its direction again.

A recent discussion on the lkml looked into a reproducable random file I/O regression in 2.6 compared to the 2.4 kernel. Alexey Kopytov posted the benchmark results, attempting to simulate the workload of a database under intensive load. The tests were tried with all I/O schedulers, including the anticipatory, deadline and CFQ, and in all cases 2.4 outperformed 2.6.

The following posting has been contributed by Mark Johnson, Debian's representative at OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards.

The Extensible Open Router Platform (XORP) is an open-source software project for creating production-level open-source router code. Like its predecessor the Linux Router Project (which ended in 2002) the goal of XORP is to create open-source routing code that can run on commodity hardware and become "the Linux of routing," according to the project's founders. The project is run by the International Computer Science Institute, which is affiliated with the University of California at Berkeley.

Delivering Technology Choice to Customers is Driving Force Behind Red Hat Client Strategy, Red Hat Desktop is First Deliverable

Opening a new chapter in its 10-year history and a new front in its war against Microsoft, leading Linux seller Red Hat on Tuesday plans to announce its first version of the open-source operating system for desktop computers.

While proprietary OSs have been blessed by an onslaught of competing audio players, the Free Software world has remained relatively stagnant since XMMS was released in 1997. Recently, however, there has been a lot of development work surrounding Free Software media players. I ran across several audio programs worth looking into, including mpd, muine, and musikcube, but the most promising program I found is Rhythmbox.

In this week's Gentoo Weekly Newsletter we say farewell to Chief Architect Daniel Robbins, who has retired. In the rest of the issue you'll find out about the success of the 10th Gentoo BugDay and read some security announcements and community coverage. Enjoy!

Of course readers of a book learn from it, but authors learn from writing it, too. One of the most surprising things I learned from writing the second edition of Advanced UNIX Programming was how good Linux really is.

"Security certifications and compliance with standards are top priorities for Red Hat and are key drivers of innovation," noted Paul Cormier, executive vice president of Engineering at Red Hat. "We are committed to industry standards and will continue to drive acceptance and adherence of standards, leading by example."

Matthew Szulik, Red Hat Chairman and CEO, will host a press conference in London at 11am BST on May 4, 2004. Mr. Szulik is expected to discuss Red Hat's technical strategy and trends in the adoption of open source by the Enterprise. The conference will be broadcast via a conference call.

KDE announces the immediate opening of registration for the KDE Community World Summit event. Taking place for 9 days (from 21st to 29th of August in Ludwigsburg, Germany) the organizing team is scheduling 5 different event modules.

Security enhanced Linux, a set of kernel modifications and utilities initially developed by the National Security Agency, bolsters the security of Linux systems by enabling administrators to more finely tune data and process permissions. SELinux enforces mandatory access control policies, which limit user and application privileges to the minimum required to do the job. In contrast, most operating systems have DAC (discretionary access control) schemes in which a process has access to everything available to the user who launched it.