ZD Net reports on Microsoft’s appeal. “Calling earlier proceedings ‘infected with error,’ Microsoft Corp. pleaded with an appeals court to keep the company intact in a 150-page brief filed Monday.”

Slashdooters discuss an article by Gamepro talking about Indrema and “how they are expecting hackers to take
apart the box … “

IDG.net reports on Red Hat’s unveiling of Red Hat Alpha Deluxe, a distribution based on Compaq’s Alpha chip.

Linux Journal has a column: “If you have run X-Windows in any way shape or form, you’ll have accumulated a number of interesting files in your home directory. They have names
like ‘.Xclients’, ‘.Xauthority’, and ‘.xinitrc’ to name a few. What are these mysterious (dare I say it again) ‘.X’ files? Well, before I go into that, let’s
start by looking at the program that invariably makes use of these files, a little something called xinit.”

From Business Wire: Performance Technologies, Inc. and Motorola
Computer Group announced today they are working together to sell high availability SS7/IP- signaling gateway solutions for
Motorola’s Aspira third generation total communications solutions. This sale is expected to generate multi-million dollar annual revenues for PTI
over the next five years.
PTI and Motorola Computer Group will provide a highly reliable, integrated hardware and software wireless signaling gateway solution for
Motorola’s Global Telecom Solutions Sector. GTSS is developing Motorola’s core network architecture for its Aspira technology – an
IP-based total communications solution that combines voice, data and multi-media services delivered through interoperable networks, applications
and next-generation access devices. PTI will integrate its state-of-the-art MicroLegend SS7/IP distributed software architecture stack and
CompactPCI CPC380 network I/O access modules with MCG’s high-availability, Linux-based, CompactPCI CPX8216 hardware platform for
use in wireless systems being built for Motorola’s Aspira architecture.

Slashdot readers discuss a request from from the EFF, which is looking for examples of
how the anticircumvention provision of the DMCA impacts the world of the
ordinary fair user.

Australian IT reports: “US-based Hatewatch.org is developing a Linux server package incorporating mailing lists, newsgroups and other infrastructure, which it will offer for free.”

Australian IT reviews Mac OS X: “For all the fancy animated graphics and pulsing, colored buttons, we much prefer working with the older Mac OS 9. It’s easier and more instinctive, in our view. And we think thousands of Mac users will agree after discovering just how radical are the changes Apple wants to force on them, and how steep the learning curve required.”

“Depending on Microsoft’s approach, code signing could not only secure the desktop, but the software giant’s control over it as well.” ZDNet UK reports.

The University of Kentucky’s Aggregate research group won two awards for their efforts in Linux supercomputing. The group received a Gordon Bell Honorable Mention in Price/Performance award for KLAT2, the Kentucky Linux Athlon Testbed 2, a cluster supercomputer running sixty-four 700MHz AMD Athlon systems. The second award, for Most Innovative Hardware from the HPC Games Challenge recognized the KRAA Z-MP, the Kentucky Research AMD Athlons Z – Multiple PCs, a Beowulf Linux cluster running eleven 700MHz and one 1.2GHz Athlon processors.