“…the Web is based on transcendence, on being out of oneself, on going towards a something more, something beyond ourselves. This transcendence also characterizes the movement of spirit. The new Web metaphysics is fundamentally spiritual.”If this had been written by anyone other than David Weinberger, you’d probably tune it out as background noise, but as it is, you’re inexplicably compelled by a deep primal urge to visit his JOHO site for the full essay–garym

It’s at PR Newswire: BSDi, the leader in
Internet infrastructure-grade solutions, announced today the company has
received an investment totaling $4 million from several Japanese strategic
partners led by GLQ Entrepia Inc., the venture capital arm of Nissho Iwai
American Corporation.

LinuxSecurity.com.br has the story: “A few
years ago I was looking for Linux security documentation, and couldn’t find
any online or in books. That was when I started writing the LASG, which
steadily spiraled out of control (I think it ended up like 200+ pages long).
Then I got my current job with SecurityPortal and of course I started doing
it full time, over a year ago and haven’t looked back since.”

From Business Wire:
DevelopOnline Corp., leading in collaborative Web-based electronic product
development, Tuesday announced the appointments of three additional executives.
Joining the staff as chief technology officer is David Mandala, who most recently was senior engineering director of Linuxcare.
Joining DevelopOnline as vice president of sales is Michael C. Dillon, a former Fortune 50 executive who brings more than 30 years of focused
sales and marketing experience to DevelopOnline.
Joining the staff as PR director is Sara Killingsworth, who most recently operated Marketing Services, her own media relations consulting
company.

eWeek reports on what to expect with the 2.4 kernel, saying Linux remains “a key technology to watch.”

LWN.net has an annoucement about SuSE making available crypto packages for the GA version. “On vivd demand we make these crypto packages available now at our
german ftp server for download.”

“In a continuation of last week’s tip of the week, this week we’ll try to
improve and expand on the same idea. Rather than setting up a shell
alias, we’ll use the current prompt to set the title. I like the idea a lot, and
it’s something I hadn’t thought of. One major advantage it has is being
more universal – the prompt gets displayed after every command, so it will
always have the proper current directory to use …”
Read the full tip at Linuxlookup.com-Anonymous Reader

url: Dell has
been selected by Worldport Communications Inc. as the supplier of servers
for its Linux installation at Worldport’s $50 million flagship Internet Solutions
SuperCentre in Dublin, Ireland.

From LinuxPR: The KDE Team today announced the
release of KDE 2.0.1, a powerful, modular, Internet-enabled desktop. KDE 2.0.1
is a translation and bug-fix release and follows six weeks after the release of
KDE 2.0, which constitutes the next generation of the award-winning KDE 1
series. KDE is the work product of hundreds of dedicated developers originating
from over 30 countries.

Linux World has a story about StarOffice being used at universities. “Universities around the world are using the newly open sourced StarOffice as an alternative to
Microsoft-based file compatibility. Paired with Linux, universities can also use StarOffice to resurrect
old systems that lack the power to handle other uses.”