From a press release at LinuxPR: “Open Source Development Network (OSDN.com), a division of VA Linux
Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:LNUX), has announced that SourceForge.net,
the world’s largest ASP for Open Source developers, now supports
over 100,000 registered users. Since its official launch a year ago,
SourceForge.net has expanded its base of supported projects to more
than 13,000, including major projects such as MySQL, Tcl, Python,
XFree86, KDE and Squid.” (Disclosure: VA Linux owns NewsForge)

Kelly McNeill writes “Every week or so a new company creates its own distribution of Linux. Every other week a new program is ported over to Linux. Every month a new feature is inserted into Linux. And every year a major change is incorporated that expands the OS’s capabilities. One major problem is that every change that makes the OS better is happening in multiple locations independent of the rest of the companies. That’s like replacing the carpet in your home a square foot at a time.”

LinuxToday has posted an announcement about Linux Tag’s need for speakers at their European exhibition.

LinuxPlanet explains journaled filesystems and practical considerations for installing and working with reiserfs.

CNET reports that Microsoft is spending $200 million on an advertising campaign in an attempt to align itself with big business server solutions. Will it work? Stay tuned.

ZDNET reports on the site that eWEEK labs has opened up, saying, ‘come and crack if you can.’ Every day, the server is loaded up with kiddies working on the perfect crack… but they’ve had no success yet.

From Wired.com: “A couple of guys put up a nondescript site that once contained a Pokemon meta tag. Woe unto those who dare offend the attorneys who guard Nintendo’s treasure.”

The happy beneficiary of this exploit, the owner of MyDomains.com, said he was amazed at how easy it was to ‘hijack’ traffic. Surprising it isn’t done more often. From MSNBC.

ZDNET talks about the marketing department shakeup at Microsoft, plus their new focus on .Net and how Windows might be fading away.

At Infoworld, the columnist says 2.4 lacks functionality to make Linux the best desktop OS, whines and moans about lack of driver support for 2.4 and then calls for a special committee to put pressure on vendors to create hardware drivers for Linux.