ZDNet reports on the latest from the SDMI challenge. Two people who took part in the competition will each be receiving $5000 for successfully completing one of the challenges.

Maximum Linux reports that NEC and Hitachi are jointly building a $1.45 billion memory factory in an effort to take a larger share of the market for desktop memory.

Linux Today AU says that Linux is on the verge of mass acceptance, and explains why.

Linux kernel version 2.2.18pre24 is out, according to an email Alan Cox sent to Linux Weekly News, among other sites.

The Chicago Tribune reports on the high tech sector in Israel and its problems with old-style politics and the armed conflict taking place within the country’s borders.

Microsoft Tech Net gives us its version of what, exactly, a security vulnerability is, in the lingo of security teams rather then the dictionary definition of the term.

ZDNet reports that a court has upheld the sacking of two employees for sending joke emails, and that a British Chamber of Commerce is warning that companies may ban personal email to avoid liability.

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From a press release posted at LWN.net: Today, SuSE Linux, the international
technology leader and solutions provider in Open Source operating system
software, announced the latest distribution SuSE Linux 7.0 for computers
with Alpha CPUs. The port of the current SuSE distribution to Compaq
64-Bit-technology, underlines SuSE’s technical competence as the leading
provider of server solutions. In addition to the Alpha platform, SuSE Linux
also supports Intel and PowerPC as well as the SPARC and S/390
architectures.

Hewlett-Packard has launched a new, entry-level four-way L3000 Unix server, InfoWorld reports.