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.

A Reuters item on InfoWorld reports that “All mobile phones in Britain will come with health warnings under new government guidelines to be rushed out ahead of Christmas.”

eWeek reports: “When Lotus Development Corp. began pitching its knowledge management platform to customers and business partners, many had a hard time grasping what KM was and what the product, dubbed Raven, would do for them. Now, nearly two years later, that confusion has not abated and, in fact, is growing.”

“In an example I looked at recently, Oracle wants to charge $505,000 to run its database on a $36,000 server. What’s wrong with this picture?” ZDNet’s Brett Arquette comments on Oracle’s pricing and alternatives for IT directors fed up with the software maker’s increasing licensing costs.

ZDNet News reports: “Some of the runners-up in the biggest dash yet for new Web territory started by the Internet Corporation for Names and Numbers aren’t done yet with their failed proposals. One is threatening to sue. Another threatens global communion. A third is trying to sort out just exactly how it feels.”

Dr. Dobbs’ latest weekly edition of Tcl news and links is now available at LWN.net.

Christopher Robato Yao of 32BitsOnline looks at the future of Rambus: “Despite earnings, those legal fees from suing all those memory makers may take a financial toll on Rambus. Rambus needs those suits to be settled early, maybe by early next year, but intellectual property lawsuits, which Rambus is fighting on multple fronts simultaneously, can take years to resolve.”