MSNBC reports that the Iraqi government may have bought as many as 1400 PlayStations, and hypothesizes that they may be used as part of a weapons system.

While not mentioning Perl or Python, Infoworld talks about PHP and its increasing use in companies looking for reliable, and cost effective, solutions for their web front ends.

The MandrakeForum has posted an article covering the recent talk given by Richard Stallman. It’s summarised from notes, and a bit choppy to read, but provides some interesting anecdotes and insights info RMS and his position.

Right on the heels of the 2.4.0-test13-pre4 announcement by Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox has released his ac patch against Linus’ branch. (Thanks to Linuxtoday)

Alan Cox has released 2.2.19pre3 for testing. This released includes a lot of driver fixes, some detection fixes, and some documentation updates on top of the new VM which went into 2.2.19pre2. (Thanks to lwn.net)

Announced today, Linuxcare has tested and certified a range of HP NetServers as fully functional under Linux. Complete details are on Linuxtoday.

If you shopped at Egghead this holiday season, should you worry? ZDNet UK reports that over 3 million credit card numbers may have been stolen in a recent online break-in suffered by the electronic retailer.

From Search EnterpriseLinux:
Mark Cathcart, a technology strategist with IBM and a member of the S/390 Software Development Council talks about IBM’s strategy behind Linux on the z900 and if he thinks Linux can really take this age-old platform into the world of open-systems. -Anonymous Reader

LinuxPlanet: “Netware used to command significantly more interest than it does today, but remains a significant player in file and print services.
Linux can be a Netware client and there is limited Netware server support as well.”

From Slashdot: “We had an extremely interesting submission from Ted T’so, Linux kernel developer, who also has
an obvious interest in security, given his work with Kerberos[?]. He wrote in concerning the release
by the NSA (Yes, that NSA) of a high security version of Linux.”