Newsforge reader pawal tells us that “After negotiations in Bratislava, the 33 European countries that have signed the Wassenaar agreement, have decided to revoke the crypto export controls over crypto products that are using strong enctryption technology.
The restriction was agreed upon in 1998, and have led to problems for the european technology companies that develop crypto products.
Read more in Swedish at Gnuheter.”

A BusinessWire press release announces: “Under the terms of the agreement, Dell will ship Eazel’s network user environment with its Linux-based desktop and notebook products. Eazel’s network user
environment, which includes Eazel’s Nautilus software and Eazel Services, extends the user experience by fully embracing and exploiting new possibilities created by
the Internet. In addition, Dell Ventures — Dell’s investment arm — has made an equity investment in Eazel signaling a continued commitment to the Linux market.”

“The Microsoft Network may have to raid itself. A groovy new facility
available in MSN communities allows you to steal other people’s
pictures and then get MSN’s partners in copyright conundrums to
shove it on mugs, T shirts and similar which they then sell to you.” The Register reports.

CNET reports: “By now, Bluetooth technology was expected to be linking everything from laptops to cell phones to digital cameras. In
reality, the short-range wireless communication standard is just now getting its baby teeth.”

Here’s your chance to vote for your favorite over-hyped technology or product that never materialized. Wired News will tally the votes, and they promise to declare a winner without the Supreme Court’s help.

“Transmeta should have known better. If there’s one truism in this industry, it’s that you don’t step
into the chip arena unless you are tried and true. Because there is an 800-pound gorilla named
Intel (INTC) which is more than willing to chin check you back into place before you can say
Pentium.” From UpsideToday.

The guys over at LinuxNews Team wrote in to tell us: “Argante 1.0 is a fully-operational, software-embedded virtual operating system
environment, designed for high security, efficiency and usability, reducing the
amount of resources required to develop complex networked applications and
solutions. It supports Hierarchical Access Control, remote Inter-Process
Communication for distributed computing (easy clusters / virtual router
development) as well as many other features. It comes with comprehensive
documentation, many examples, a compact HTTP server and DVR (distributed
virtual router) examples.

Read the developers announcement and check out the homepage.”

AsiaBizTech reports that, with various cluster software products for Linux coming onto the market,
system providers are accelerating their Linux businesses in Japan.

The cluster software will enable a cluster configuration of two or more Linux servers to deliver high
performance or fault tolerance to avoid system failure. It offers load balance and fail-over features. System
providers have had only a small chance of closing service contracts for Linux system deployment,
consulting and operation, because most knowledgeable Linux end users are able to maintain their simple
server systems themselves.

LinuxWorld interviews the CEO of theKompany.com, “a software company dedicated to producing Linux tools and productivity applications while
expanding the Linux developer base.”

Newsforge reader Sensei writes: “This is an incredibly basic NHF designed to give a general idea of the layout of the standard Linux filesystem. Since this varies quite a bit from distribution to distribution, not everything in here will hold true for all distributions. Since I know Debian, that’s the one I’m providing the boot script structure for. Check it out at linuxnewbie.org“