The Debian project has been invited to join the Advisory Board of the recently created Gnome Foundation. The Advisory Board is a forum for
organizations and companies that have an interest in Gnome to communicate with the Board of the Foundation and work together to support Gnome. The announcement is posted at Linux Today.

Yomiuri.com.jp reports that three people were arrested in Japan Thursday “on suspicion of illegally obtaining IDs and passwords and using them to invade Web sites belonging to a university and a tourism association.

It is the nation’s first bust of a hacker group on suspicion of violating the law on
illegally accessing computers.”

7bulls.com, the biggest Linux company in Poland,
announced recently on linuxnews.pl
that in conjunction with TU Mobile (the Italian telecom company) it wants to gain
one of five UMTS licences. “Now we are waiting for that Ericsson
mobiles with Linux on board.” (Warning: This story is in Polish.)
-Anonymous Reader

Creator of the WWW, Tim Berners-Lee, spoke to thousands via satellite TV in an unprecedented event marking the world’s largest student technology forum. Lee fielded challenging questions about Open Source, Napster, Web voting, and of course, Al Gore. Lee was the first technology leader to appear on the VisionQuest Series, the brainchild of the VisionQuest Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering students by connecting them to the wisdom and experience of visionaries. It’s at vqfoundation.org. -Anonymous Reader

The BBC reports that half a million Sony Playstation 2 games consoles go on sale across Europe Friday, and most of them are already sold before they hit the shelves.

From Eric S. Raymond: “The controversy over the presidential vote in Florida has resulted in
an unprecedented rash of press inquiries about `chad’. These have
come to me, apparently because the Jargon File has the most voluminous
entry on this word of any readily available source.
In response, I have released the 4.2.3 version of the Jargon File as a
special Presidential-election-cliffhanger edition with an updated
`chad’
entry. Enjoy!” Here’s the non-frames version of the Jargon File.

zez.org: about code has this article about CVS up today. It is the second part of a series. “CVS is a Version Control System which helps multiple developers manage software projects. In this second part I’ll show the basics of committing your changes to a project, adding new files, creating patches and explaining version numbers.” Those of you who missed the first part can read it here. –pkej

ExecuTrain announced on 24 November that it is offering
access to its online Linux library of courses at a reduced rate for
December and January. The courses form part of ExecuTrain’s
Virtual Campus (EVC) program. The story is at LinuxWorld.com.au-Anonymous Reader

The BBC reports on the testing of a new kind of helicopter: the nanocopter. No bigger then a virus, it is expected to have great use in medical research and treatment.

Security Focus’ Bugtraq warns of a buffer overflow exploit in modprobe, the programme used for loading kernel modules.