An Anonymous Reader shares news of a review at LinuxLookup: “With Socket A motherboards now being almost a dime a dozen, Abit
steps in with it’s contender, the KT7-RAID. This board packs a killer
punch, and there is no question it is one of the top boards for Socket A
processors. In the past, Abit has been quite innovative with its products,
and the KT7-RAID continues this tradition. Lets see how this baby
shapes up under Linux.”

From O’Reilly: “Whenever I have too much time on my hands, I can be found perusing the FreeBSD ports collection. I
provide endless amusement for my daughter as I show off my latest geek discoveries; to paraphrase her
favourite Dogbert quote, I’ve entered the state of “nerdvana.” In this week’s article, follow along as I take a tour through the ports collection on the hunt for the obscure,
the amusing, and the useful.”

ZDNet reports that Intel gave up fixing its Pentium 4 bug in favour of instructing PC manufacturers on how to circumvent the problem, which can lead to performance lapses with dual-headed displays and other graphics intensive setups.

ZDNet reports that the German mobile phone network collapsed Christmas day under the strain of people trying their new cell phones. It is expected to happen again on New Year’s day.

Upside Today looks at the year in Open Source, chronicaling the year month by month. The article is in two parts. Part one, and part two.

ZDNET commentary: “The Unix wars of the last decade pretty well blew the
word “open” into uselessness, but I’m still intrigued by
the way it has been turned upside down yet again in one
sad little corner of the computing world.

I’m referring to the Microsoft Open License Program. Of
course, Microsoft isn’t alone in the misappropriation:
Adobe calls it Open Options; Computer Associates and
others also have “Open Licensing” programs.”

DB2mag.com reports that Linux’s popularity among programmers and
businesses that require small- to
medium-scale servers continues to grow. “But
Linux proponents have greater aspirations for
their operating system, a vision IBM shares.
They feel that Linux’s reliability and scalability
are well suited to the needs of growing,
large-scale enterprises, including
industrial-size warehousing, decision support,
transaction processing, and data mining
applications.”

“ESR has an article that explains some ways for you to become a Hacker. I’m not going to repeat all the points he has in that
article, as you can look at that article for the specifics. I am going to make the argument that Hackers do not generally Hack
because they have to for work. Instead, it is their passion, their life, in a dramatic way. Also, I’m going to make the argument
that, and this is not how ESR feels, Hackers can be non-contributing authors to the code base of the world. That code base
is better known as Open Source or Free Software today.” From LinuxPower.com.

“This resembles CSS and e-Books: it is another plan to impose
additional power over people who use published information, on
behalf of those who hope to control the power,” he writes in emails
to The Register.

PRNewswire release states: “CRN dubbed Ellison ‘The Marathon Man’ credited with running, ‘a
marathon race, steering the company on what at times seemed an unlikely course
that would run headlong into the Microsoft juggernaut. Instead he has wound
up at the head of the pack …'”