Slashdot is carrying a discussion of a German Yahoo news article saying that the developer responsible for MP3 has been honored in Germany.

NW Fusion reports that the European Union is preparing to adopt the “.eu” top level domain for European continental sites.

CNet has a story on Sun Microsystems’ new Full Moon server software to be released Dec. 5, including information on competitiors Red Hat and Compaq’s UnixWare.

OReillynet.com looks at how Stackless Python will fit into Python’s future. “Stackless’ fans argue that its inclusion is an easy choice. Stackless Python is
faster, more capable, and mature, because it’s been used for many months in
‘mission-critical’ applications already in production. A change to stacklessness is a
‘pure win,’ with no significant costs.”

LinuxDevices.com has a review of the Nokia Media Terminal: “Nokia describes its Media Terminal as a powerful ‘infotainment center’ for the home, which
allows consumers to gain the benefits of both Internet access and digital broadcasting.” It works on open technologies including Linux, Mozilla, and HTML.

LinuxWorld.com.au looks at Linux distributions
“targeted toward stand-alone, enterprise server installations to
assess whether companies selling this packaged open source
code are coupling it with the tools and services necessary for
enterprise server use.”

The announcement is posted on LWN.net: “The first milestone for LSB test development is now complete. This has
been in setting up the test framework for integrating tests into. The
framework adopted is the Test Environment Toolkit, with the VSXgen
(generic VSX test framework) layered on top of that. As proof of concept
the first testsets, the LSB-VSX and LSB-FHS testsets have been integrated
into the framework.”

From a press release on BusinessWire: Codemesh is porting its
JunC++ion product to several UNIX platforms. Soon, UNIX programmers will be able to use this patent pending
technology to get Java and C++ programs to work together in one process.

Perl.com has an article about programming GNOME applications in Perl. You can “create really neat applications,” but there’s no documentation available.

ABC News reviews Sony’s PictureBook C1VN: ” The first computer to feature Transmeta’s Crusoe chip, Sony’s PictureBook C1VN is quirky, classy, flashy and entirely remarkable. The PictureBook isn’t for everyone — but it’s a sure conversation-starter.”