Linux PR has a press release announcing VectorLinux, a small X-based distribution.

From ApacheToday: “In the next series of articles we are going to talk about mod_perl performance issues. We will try
to look at as many aspects of the mod_perl driven service as possible. Hardware, software, Perl
coding and finally the mod_perl specific aspects.”

ZDNet’s eWeek has a story about Intel announcing lower-than-expected earnings, joining a chorus of other tech companies.

Wired.com reports on a ruling from the U.S. copyright office that requires terrestrial radio stations that broadcast both over the Web and over the air to pay the same content licensing fees as Web-only broadcasters. CNet weighs in with a story about how the copyright office didn’t rule on how much individual users could control music streams.

CNet reports that online music Riffage.com has pulled the plug on its services after an unsuccessful hunt for a
buyer.

“The company was among the most creative of the online music start-ups, buying an offline, independent music label and San Francisco’s
venerable Great American Music Hall venue in an attempt to diversify its business.”

Dr. Dobb’s Journal interviews Theo de Raadt, principal architect of OpenBSD. “The biggest thing is to keep on improving quality and make everything work better. Device drivers
are also becoming an issue, people need those more. We’re working a lot on laptop issues like
WaveLAN, which works fine now, and on PCMCIA card, APM, laptop suspend … sound cards are
going to become a big concern soon.”

Linux Planet speaks out on theKompany’s release of the source code to Kivio for use by the KDE project. Will freeloaders in the Open Source community ruin the act of trust?

From BSD Today: “OpenBSD has announced a security fix for two problems that were discovered in KerberosIV code.
According to a posting to the OpenBSD security announcements list, a symlink problem was
discovered which makes it possible for a local user to overwrite any file on the local machine if you
have enabled KerberosIV in /etc/kerberosIV/krb.conf. And, if you use telnetd and you accept insecure
cleartext passwords, the announcement says, special environment variables may be set on the remote
side.”

Posted at LWN.net: “his email is here to announce the availability of a port of ORBit (the
GNOME ORB) to the Linux kernel. This ORB, named kORBit, is available from
our sourceforge web site (http://korbit.sourceforge.net/). A kernel ORB
allows you to write kernel extensions in CORBA and have the kernel call
into them, or to call into the kernel through CORBA.”

Upside puts Transmeta on trial for unloading bad chips on hardware makers. “Of greatest interest to the court is the issue of intent, for the charges assume a certain
malice of forethought on the part of Transmeta. As one juror noted, ‘I’m sure Transmeta did not intend
to foist bad technology on its customers.’ The court concurs.
I therefore find Transmeta not guilty of all charges. However, the court will be watching future
products carefully.”