All Linux Devices presents, the top ten reasons to save your money and buy an Indrema console, from Indrema’s publicists.

Rallying the faithful at ApacheCon Europe last night, Douglas Adams —
legendary author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — told an
audience of 300 that the best way to predict the future is to invent it, reports Apache Today, and
that those in Apache community were on the cutting edge of creativity and
empowerment.

Salon News proclaims, new legislation that would require the use of filtering software
by public libraries is unnecessary and unconstitutional.

DB2
UDB Enterprise-Extended Edition (EEE) can exploit symmetric multiprocessors (SMP), clustered SMP,
and massively parallel processors (MPP) on platforms as diverse as Microsoft Windows NT, IBM AIX*,
HP-UX, NUMA-Q, Sun Solaris and now on Linux. IBM.com offers the download for free.

The good news for businesses considering implementing Linux is that it continues to evolve and
has wide support among independent developers, distributors, and value-added resellers, but, according to CNET News, that’s
also the bad news.

The new release of
Best Linux includes, in addition to many other improvements, support for the
Portuguese language, improved sound card support, modem configuration,
and the brand new KDE 2.0, from Linux PR.

Several attendees of the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) said they had received notices of about 5,000 patches that Oracle has released for 11i, reports Computerworld on NetworkWorldFusion News
The software “is not ready for prime time,” said
Donna Rosenstrater, an OAUG board member who
works at San Jose-based electronics contract
manufacturer Sanmina Corp. A lot more cleanup
work is required before many users can safely go live
with the new applications, she added.

New York Magazine profiles Emmanuel Goldstein, the editor, activist, and sometime
cult figure at the helm of the sixteen-year-old
hacker journal 2600: The Hacker Quarterly.

MSNBC reports, European Union nations, and perhaps even the
United States, are about to make nearly any form
of cracking — even security research — illegal
by treaty.

From UpsideToday: Not since the rancorous Open BSD/Net BSD split in 1994 had the community witnessed a
breakup — or “fork,” in developer parlance — of this magnitude. While members of both the
Samba-TNG — an offshoot of the Samba group that develops for the latest versions of
Windows NT and Windows 2000 — and the main Samba teams did their best to put a happy
face on this affair, there was no hiding the concern, even among those closest to split.