From LinuxPR: OSO-DAWN No.1 is the first hybrid Linux/Open-Source package ever
introduced in China by Open Source Online China, which announced the package recently.

32bitsonline has the review: “The authors of ‘Practical UNIX and Internet Security,’ Simson Garfinkel and Gene Spafford, write in a very
down-to-earth, simple fashion that never leaves the reader wondering. Instead, the book is written for both
those new to the field and the professionals that need a good reference manual lying on their shelves.”

The report, at seul.org, addresses this question: “I have some really slow freshmen who have a hard time in algebra class connecting ordered pairs with points on a Cartesian
coordinate system. Does anybody know of a game that helps teach coordinate graphing? I was thinking of something like
Battleship that would require you to specify ordered pairs instead of A4, B6, etc.”

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?”