The Standard cites experts who say Napster is playing dumb, that it knows who is sharing what with who and just isn’t willing to tell anyone.

BusinessWire via NewsAlert has a press release on Linuxcare’s latest customer, Tricord Systems.

A ZDNet review says the release of the StarOffice code isn’t as big of a deal as some people are making it. “Think of it this way: OpenOffice is to StarOffice what Mozilla is to Communicator.”

“In spite of a painful first install attempt, the flames of the Debian faithful, and a run of
bad luck with CDs that borders on creepy, a Linux World columnist is back this week with another Debian
install, Storm Linux 2000.”

RootPrompt.org has a ton of advice on building a good, cheap Linux machine. “You need to decide on the chipset/processor combination and then pick a motherboard with the
layout you need. I would like to be impartial, but it is always a good idea to stay away from Intel:
From Fall 1997 to Spring 2000, people witnessed recalls of pentiums due to ‘F0 0F’ pentium
bug, dropped L2 cache on original Celerons…”

It’s at LyX.org: “After 1.1.6 we will change the numbering scheme slightly so that hard
working system administrators won’t have to wonder what the fix suffix
stands for. They seem happy enough with something cryptic like the pl suffix
used by some projects but complain about fix. Oh well!”

The press release is at LinuxPR: Access Co., Ltd and Coventive Technologies announced
a joint solution that targets the surging information appliance market. The
partnership will gear to target the IA manufacturers in Asia for hand-held
browsers, PDAs, web phones, set-top boxes and many other information
appliances.

Cox News Service features the Fourth International Symposium on Wearable Computers, including mention of a 44-gram wristwatch computer and communicator under
development by IBM, able to compute using the Linux operating
system, employing a 100 mhz microprocessor and a 1 gigabyte data
storage capacity. Slashdot has more.

LWN.net has the advisory: Several problems in ping are fixed:
1) Root privileges are dropped after acquiring a raw socket.
2) An 8 byte overflow of a static buffer “outpack” is prevented.
3) An overflow of a static buffer “buf” is prevented.

SignalGround has a feature on a company’s employees working Linux into use there. “The company that employs Tom and me builds big pieces of food processing
machinery that cost upwards of $400K. Each machine includes an embedded
PCs running — and I cringe — NT 4. While the company’s legacy currently
dictates NT, those of us at the lower levels of the totem pole work to wedge
Linux in wherever we can. What follows is a short story of a successful
insertion that turned out to be (gasp!) financially beneficial to the company,
too.”