From BusinessWire: American Megatrends Inc., the leader in storage and computing innovations worldwide, today announced support for Red Hat Linux,
RAID 10 and multi-controllers to its MegaRAID IDE100 and MegaRAID IDE66 hard drive accelerators.

From use.perl.org: “Gurusamy Sarathy has released TRIAL1, the first trial release, of perl 5.6.1. Don’t
use it on your production systems, but please do download it and try it out, if you
are so inclined.”

From BusinessWire: Lutris Technologies Inc., a leading open source enterprise software and services company, today announced that Lutris Enhydra 3.5, the first
application server capable of supporting major wireless protocols and delivering applications to the broadest range of wireless and wired devices, has
been released to manufacturing and may now be ordered online. Lutris Enhydra 3.5 includes smart phone emulators from leading mobile phone
manufacturers, Nokia, Motorola and Pixo, as well as development tools from Borland, Sun and RadView to give developers a complete suite of tools to
quickly build and easily manage wired and wireless applications.

Slashdot readers debate an article about Slackware developer David Cantrell on Userlocal.com. He talks about his start in Slackware Linux and what he does there.

From BusinessWire: LinuxWizardry Systems, Inc. (OTCBB:LNXWF) is pleased to announce a new
product for the Magic Passage DSL/Cable Router product line. The new model will be designated the Magic Passage 1400 and will be an
entry-level alternative to the current Magic Passage 2540.

ZDNet UK has a story on companies reworking their e-business strategies with IBM chief executive Lou Gerstner advising that companies need an end-to-end infrastructure ­-
preferably run on Linux ­- rather than other systems such as Unix.

From the Linux Journal: “This year, why not give the gift of Linux for Christmas or Hannukah? Sure, I admit it: When your loved ones see a Linux CD in with the rest of their
gifts, they might look at you as though you are a little bit strange. Then again, don’t they already think that?”

LinuxPlanet’s Kevin Reichard comments on the Green Institute’s adoption of Linux: “On a global scale, this is barely worth a mention. But on the local level, the level where the Green Institute and thousands of others
nonprofits exist, this is huge news. The Green Institute isn’t exactly flush with cash, so the potential to save on resources devoted to
a computing system is enormous.”

SecurityFocus reports: “A tiff between two IT contractors that spiraled into federal court ended last month with a U.S. district court ruling
in Georgia that port scanning a network does not damage it, under a section of the anti-hacking laws that
allows victims of cyber attack to sue an attacker.”

From ZDNet UK: “Will consumers buy the concept of getting phone calls to
remind them of pizza coupons whenever they’re near a
store? Big Brother is proving to be a tough sell. While location-based
advertising services for wireless devices have a great deal of
potential, the pesky little fact that customers value their
privacy could slow adoption of the technology.”