ZDNet has a column explaining Apple’s BSD derivative, Darwin. “It’s unlikely that Darwin will ever develop anything close to the mindshare that makes Linux the world’s fastest-growing operating system.”

InfoWorld reports that Oracle has extended its $1 million our-servers-run-better-than-yours challenge to BEA in addition to IBM and Microsoft.

Reuters reports that the German government has asked Bertelsmann to stop its partner Napster from allowing users to exchange music by “extreme right-wing bands.”

From PR Newswire: The 3rd Edition of “UNIX System
Administration Handbook,” authored by a team including XOR’s Trent Hein, Evi
Nemeth and Ned McClain, has enjoyed such tremendous success that it is
entering its second printing in less than six months.

From InternetWire: PolyServe, a leading provider of systems software for the
Internet data center, today introduced LocalCluster Enterprise,
a ground-breaking new high-availability server clustering
solution for data replication of web- and IP-based services. It’s available on Linux and soon on FreeBSD.

CNet reports: “A gray market maverick has sneaked an extra 2,500 Sony PlayStation 2 game consoles into the United Kingdom from a
‘secret location’ in Northern Europe.”

The Register reports that an “esoteric buffer overlow bug” in OpenBSD has been upgraded in importance because it could allow a cracker to gain remote access to a server.

Feedmag.com has an article on dotcom unions: “In late November, the San Francisco local of the Newspaper
Guild-Communications Workers of America submitted a petition to the
National Labor Relations Board to certify union representation for
thirty-six employees at etown, representing perhaps the first dot-com
employees to seek union status. Thirteen of the thirty-six employees
were fired two days later, though Lew Brown, etown.com’s president
and CEO, said the dismissals were for economic reasons, and the timing
‘an unfortunate coincidence.’ ”

“I have seen many people trying to get ther @Home cable service to work under Redhat. Me being somewhat of a newbie myself I decided to write this step by step NHF, to get you though that rough spot. Feel free to add change or just email me with any updates.
Well first you have to make sure your NIC card is working.”
Check it out at Linuxnewbie.org. This link courtesy of Sensei

LWN.net has the new issue: “Testing has entered the main Debian archive. Testing is a new branch
of Debian to complement stable and unstable. New uploads enter
unstable, and if no bad bugs are found in two weeks time, flow into
testing. Thus, testing is always in an ‘essentially releasable state’.
Testing is sure to have
far-ranging implications throughout Debian, from package release
frequency and everyday development, to porting and security fixes, to
release timing and management. Interesting times lie ahead.