The Beryl project has just released beryl 0.2.1. There’s nothing NEW in the release. However all of the licenses have been fixed so that it can go into Debian and Ubuntu.

As evidenced by major central processing unit (CPU) vendors, multi-core processors are poised to dominate the desktop and embedded space. With multiprocessing comes greater performance but also new problems. This article explores the ideas behind multiprocessing and developing applications for Linux that exploit SMP.

Here is the Linuxlookup.com weekly wrap-up, some of the hottest stories in the Linux community this week were...

- Debian Package of the Day

- How to flash motherboard BIOS from Linux (no DOS/Windows, no floppy drive)

- Corporate Desktop 4.0: The desktop you were waiting for

- Open-Xchange Unveils Community Project To Build Collaboration Suite

- Wikipedia Discredits Open Source

- Ubuntu founder joins Linux Foundation

- The Business Case for Open Source Software

- Evolution 2.10.0 Released

- Dell survey will help forge Linux offerings

- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Released

- Novell linked to 'Windows cheaper than Linux' statement

- Slightly changed openSUSE 10.2 ISOs Released

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In an open letter released earlier this week, the OpenOffice.org community invited Michael Dell to work with them to pre-install OpenOffice.org 2 office software on Dell computers. This rather humorous ad campaign could play a roll in why Dell may not accept the invitation.

Wine 0.9.33 was released with many Direct3D fixes and performance improvements, more comctl32 tests and some bug fixes, compatibility improvements in cmd.exe, still more fixes to builtin OLE, support for process control on Solaris and bug fixes.

Today the openSUSE team is releasing slightly changed openSUSE 10.2 ISO images. The reason for putting out those updated ISOs is a license issue, which had to be addressed. The following ISOs have be replaced on the mirrors:

Here is the transcript of the March 7th hearing in SCO v IBM, the last of the summary judgment hearings transcripts.

The answer to that question is probably not, though the thought had crossed my mind. In a way they already have done in a small way, they have given Novell approximately a quater's worth of net profit in return for what appears to be a cut of all Open Enterprise and SUSE Linux sales. Although no shares have changed hands, this, in itself, seems to me to be a kind of "virtual" company sale. This is even not considering the palaver regarding the patent covenants....