Graymalkin asks: "With the new G.lite standard for ADSL service having been agreed upon, I only have one question: Will the new modems be Linux compatible? Does anyone have a Compaq G.lite modems with specifications so that others have a place to start? Are they going to have their own controlling chips or will they be akin to winmodems?"

Prop Head writes "Compaq today named Michael D. Capellas as their new CEO in a hastily called press conference. He was recruited in as the CIO in 1998 and was installed as COO after they tossed Piffer earlier this year. Could this be the end of Compaq's troubles? Time will tell. Click here to see what their P.R. types have to say about it. "

TwoSticks writes "Compaq patents a keyboard that captures your kinetic energy. Magnets and coils on each key charge a small battery to augment the big one in your laptop. Standard NYTimes deal: requires free registration. " I'm a bit suspicious but it looks interesting. It might give me an incentive to fix typos anyway ;)

Philipp Rumpf writes "SuSE began shipping the first official version of their SuSE distribution for Compaq's (former Digital's) 64-bit Alpha architecture this week in Germany. " I'm glad to see SuSE finally expanding into non-x86 platforms. With any luck, it'll be available in the states soon.

EngrBohn writes "Federal Computer Weekly evaluated Unix workstations by Compaq, HP, IBM, and Sun -- they specified minimum hardware requirements and a maximum price; beyond that, all was fair. They did not include *BSD, Linux, or WinNT due to space limitations. Here's a chart (in PDF) comparing the workstations. IBM's RS6000 43P Model 260 won on technical merit, but it exceeded the $15K price cap. "

[Dilbert] was the first to send out the word that CGMI has officially purchased Alta-Vista from Compaq. The two companies also formed a "strategic" partnership-whatever that means. CGMI wants Compaq's muscle behind their portal site, and Compaq wants to stop bleeding money. Total purchase price: 2.3 billion dollars. Sheesh.

sohp writes "This Wired news story reports that Compaq may be selling off AltaVista, Zip2 and other properties. " and if you happen to have a spare couple billion dollars burning a whole in your mattress you might just wanna take a look.

that guy writes "TIME Digital has a story about the Factoid, a next-generation "minimal PDA" being developed by Compaq. You carry it everywhere, and it remembers every fact you encounter. " I think that thing, along with the Itsy, is really realy cool. I'd even be willing to submit myself to beta testing! Anyone care to speculate on what could happen if something like this ever became somewhat widespread?

akey writes "CPlant98, a Linux cluster composed of 400 Digital Personal Workstation 500as, achieved 125.2 GFLOPS, which would place it at #53 on the Top 500 list. And this was only a 350-node run... " I'm hearing rumors of 1000+ Linux Clusters. I'm itchin' for it to come out of the closet so we can see some real benchmarks.

DJ Jose wrote in to note that the Compaq Itsy is making the PR rounds again. We've mentioned this a few times in the past (seems that every few months it gets some new publicity). For those who haven't been here all along, Itsy is a tiny little butt kicking Linux box that I lust after and occasionally have erotic dreams about. But lets not talk about that now.

TriangleMan writes "Compaq will be making RH Linux an option on a number of their PCs and workstations. The press release is here and press coverage is already appearing. It also looks like RH and Compaq are going to be enhancing interoperability between Tru64 and Linux, including binary compatibility. "

So we're here, we're intact, and we've got our tickets to see Star Wars tonight. With the important business out of the way, I can finally give my first report from LinuxExpo- brace yourself for my quick summary.

CuriousGeorge113 writes "As a result of Compaq's recent acquisition of Digital Equipment, they plan on closing the Salem, New Hampshire plant which employs 900 people. Most of them will be laid off. The plant currently makes alpha-based server computers. "

davie writes " Jon Hall, leader of Compaq's Unix Group, said Compaq is porting its compiler suite from Tru64 to Linux, and will ship extended maths libraries under the open source General Public License. But Compaq is also considering adopting the software installation software Red Hat Package Manager, and the Gnome and KDE desktop environments in Tru64 Unix. The story is worth reading. "

tomreagan writes "Unbelievable - Compaq CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer just resigned out of the blue on Sunday and took the CFO with him. There's a story at the New York Times (CT:Requires free login) and the official press release can be be found here. "

MikeDartt writes "Wired reports that Compaq has just joined IBM and SCO in Project Monterey, which is an attempt to get a single UNIX distro that will run on Merced. Perhaps I'm naive, but why get behind a new *NIX as well as Linux, esp. when the latter is both more open and more fashionable? "

pmsyyz sent us a news.com story that talks about the new alpha based Compaq Servers. Lots of interesting tidbits (and hardware specs to drool over) but it reveals that the compiler and libs will not be open source, although they will be cheap. Just read it- its interesting, but frusterating to read about putting Digital's excellence and Compaq's marketing together, and stirring in a PHB decision like a closed source compiler.

shogun writes "Compaq Australia has come up with a new mouse that integrates a miniature dynamo to recharge your laptops batterys from the movement of the mouse. You can find more information here. "

Richard Finney sent us story to Compaq's latest Alpha announcement. They will be rolling out some new Alpha-based models, trying to use the popularity of Linux to boost sales of this chip. Interestingly, Bob Young, of Red Hat is saying that the # of units of the Alpha are too small to make a huge difference.

phlebas writes "Cnet news has an article about how "Compaq Computer sees Linux as a way to increase sales of its Alpha microprocessor, and the company is trying to encourage other Linux distributors besides Red Hat to support the chip." They ar also plannig to "soon introduce new pricing geared to encourage Linux users to "step up" from Intel to Alpha chips." Maybe after all i'll be able to get one those in my lifetime " I think it's pretty clear that Linux is the way for Compaq's to really push the Alpha-let's hope they actually do it.