A new hat arrives Monday….

Red Hat upgrades Linux desktop OS. Red Hat Linux 9, which will be available for download as of Monday by members of the Red Hat Network (http://rhn.redhat.com) and in retail stores a week later, features new threading technology called NPTL (Native Posix Thread Library) that its predecessor Red Hat Linux 8 lacks, said Matt Wilson,…

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Just when you thought it was safe to open the browser….

Microsoft breaks with standards effort. The software giant steps down from the W3C choreography working group, reflecting a growing discord between IBM, Microsoft and other companies over standards for Web services. [CNET News.com] Crap! Here we go. Now there’ll be 50 flavors of XML: XML, IBM-XML, XML-scape, X++,x#.

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