Maximum Linux has this tidbit: “Tel Aviv-based startup Epitera is preparing to launch its first product at Comdex Fall 2000: an
as-yet-unnamed desktop Linux environment for PC/Linux-novices.

Targeting the technically disinclined crowd, the company says that the system comes with pre-installed
applications and a software manager that automatically downloads and installs new applications required
by the user.”

From SFGate.com: “Genius, grit and greed drove the first raucous
decades of high tech high life. Now, a cyberlaw
expert hopes to start up something new in Silicon
Valley, a dot.conscience.

With a staff of law school students at the University
of California, Berkeley, the clinic will examine
dot-com cons, electronic eavesdropping, copyright
battles and other ethical dilemmas.”

ZDNet reports on the reaction of the Linux community at the federal Linux conference to the security breakin at Microsoft last week.

Slashdot readers discuss the news that 3Dwm, the three-dimensional window
manager, has just
released a new, extensive release of 3Dwm, version 0.2.2.

Use.perl.org has a note about Ajuba being take over by Interwoven, which it says, has “no interest in Tcl and will not be
funding its development. Products like TclPro will be discontinued and the
Tcl source code will go to SourceForge.”

A ZDNet columnist reports from Japan: “It was in a meeting room with this vista, earlier this week, where the Linux Professional Institute’s Japanese wing
took flight and announced to the world the availability for the first time
of the LPI’s certification exams in a language other than English.
Forgetting the fact that I seemed to have spent more time flying to Japan
than actually staying there last weekend, the trip left me somewhat
awestruck.”

Slashdot readers debate a Deamon News article about the
BSD core of MacOS X Beta, talking about how it differs from
the traditional MacOS and how it differs from BSD.

From LinuxPR: MMC Networks, a wholly owned subsidiary of Applied Micro Circuits
Corp. and MontaVista Software have announced a
joint public demonstration of the industry’s first high-speed Internet Protocol router reference design based completely on off-the-shelf network
processing hardware and open-source Linux-based software. This joint
reference design signals a significant advance for the networking industry,
allowing a completely new generation of networking and communications
equipment vendors to bring products to market more rapidly than ever.

ApacheWeek.com reports on the ApacheCon Europe 2000 conference in London. Among the events was a keynote titled “Convincing Management to Embrace Open Software
Development” by Brian Behlendorf, president of the Apache Software Foundation and cofounder
of CollabNet. “He described
open source software is designed and built using the collective wisdom of a group of developers,
with contributions from a large user community. “

From a press release at Businss Wire: Quintalinux Limited, a leading
technology provider in the People’s Republic of China and Hong Kong, offering innovative, high technology solutions for “intelligent
buildings,” interior construction and design, and the Linux market, today announced a memorandum of understanding with China
(Shenzhen) Hightech Fund Investment Company Limited, to jointly form a new investment company with the
objective of making strategic investments in high-tech companies in China — especially those located in the city of Shenzhen.