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.”

BizJournals reports: “After taking a beating on Wall Street for most of the last year, VA Linux Systems Inc. may finally be winning over skeptics who have questioned the company’s ability to make money over a product that is essentially free.” VA Linux owns NewsForge.

LinuxPlanet’s Michael Hall takes a look at the next generation of Emacs: “I’ve spent a few days playing around with this release now, and, having struggled to read the change summary past around line
2000, I can only say that the Emacs sitting on my desktop today is different. How different is dependent on the user, but that
incredible customizability is obviously still there, and fairly easy to take advantage of for making some interesting changes to the
way Emacs works.”

The latest version of MySQL is now available. A complete list of changes can be found at LinuxToday; download at MySQL.com.

From BBspot: “A recent survey of Linux users found that the two main factors in their migration to Linux was its stability and that it made them feel intellectually superior. Developers promise that along with USB support there will be increased intellectual superiority in the upcoming 2.4 kernel release AKA the “Hubris” kernels.”

Dr. Dobbs’ latest weekly edition of Tcl news and links is now available at LinuxToday.

Dr Dobb’s latest weekly edition of Python news and links is now available at LinuxToday.

At LinuxToday: Alan Cox has posted the latest notes and patch for Linux kernel 2.4.0-test13-pre3-ac1.