The Free Software Foundation’s list of GNU.org mirrors was updated yesterday. The page also contains instructions for setting up your own GNU.org mirror if you are so inclined.

BSDToday says, “This release fixes problems found in the earlier 1.4.x family of releases, improves stability and includes support for new hardware. NetBSD 1.4.3 is a patch release of the 1.4 release branch. The 1.5 release branch will have its major release, NetBSD 1.5, shortly.”

Adults and techies are buying Nerf guns left and right, at almost the same rate as children are. The foam-firing guns appeal to adults as a form of office stress-relief, and numerous tech companies including Google and Red Hat have been known to buy the guns by the carload. Despite Hasbro making the guns weaker and safer for small children to play with, a culture of nerds on the Internet modify the guns to be as powerful as paintball guns to make “wars” more fun. -Steve

A LinuxUser conference in the UK is scheduled to happen during the 5th and 6th of December. “Designed for everyone involved in managing IT strategies in organisations, this event will give you access to reliable answers, real-life experiences, and expert analysis of the prospects for what IBM is calling the greatest game-changing technology since TCP/IP.“

Slashdot reports on an upcoming interview with Larry Wall. “It is an hour long in RealAudo format broken up into 10 minute segments. Mr. Wall will be discussing Perl, Free Software and the Open Source movement. It should be worth listening to.“

Looking for that special computer for your computing center? Terra Soft may have the solution with their 8-node PPC cluster box. Slashdot has the details.

“XDigitalNet provides users with a list of top *NIX sites.
November 24, 2000 – Linux Interactive officially launches XDigitalNet today. This is just one of many new sites to come from Linux Interactive.” Read more at Linuxpr.com.

As reported by Slashdot, a European Free Software Foundation has been founded. Their intent is to further the goals of the FSF by helping get information out about things like GNU software.

For a while eBay was getting upset about outside individuals and companies builidng online interfaces that allowed users to directly access specific auction pages. Now they’re helping others do this in an attempt to increase their domination of the Internet auction business. ZDNet story.

A Bloomberg News story in the Seattle Times tells of the many things you might want to buy for a geek-friend if you can’t score a Playstation II before the holiday gift-giving orgy.