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.

ZDNet UK reports “Sun is moving to allow wider industry control of the Java programming platform and is trying to assure partners and users that the language will not fragment. While longer-term promises include releasing the technology under an open source licence, in the short term Sun has tweaked its Java Community Process 2.0 to give industry partners more say in the development of the platform.”

Info World follows up on an earlier press release: “Looking to boost Linux development productivity among small businesses, IBM on Monday will formally announce its server-based Small Business Suite for Linux. The suite is packaged with a variety of applications and tools intended to make it easier for users, developers, and integrators to host and create messaging and collaboration solutions, to develop Web sites and manage data.” ZDNet also has the news.

From Business Wire press release: Caldera Systems Inc.
Friday announced the appointment of Robert Bench to the position of chief financial officer.

Business Wire: Quintalinux Limited and the China Hightech Fund Investment Company today announced a memorandum of understanding to jointly form a new investment partnership. The new venture will make strategic investments in high-tech companies in China, focusing on the city of Shenzen, regarded as a technology powerhouse in southern China.

Maximum Linux has a tutorial about booting into maintenance mode: “Maintenance mode is rather simple, yet extremely effective. Its sole mission is to
provide you, the home or corporate Administrator, the opportunity to boot into your
Linux box to make modifications to your operating system, without the annoyance of
other users logging in at the same time. Hence, this is why people often refer to
Maintenance mode as Single-User mode.”

According to a Reuters story on News.com, crackers infiltrated an American based pro-Israel Web site, making off with member records that included credit card numbers. At least 700 members of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee were affected by the break-in.

News.com reports that “AT&T acknowledged Thursday that it had violated its own spam policy by providing Web-hosting services to a purported sender of unsolicited commercial email. The admission came after an English anti-spam organization publicly posted what it termed a “pink contract” between AT&T and the alleged spammer, Nevada Hosting.”