A question posed to humor site Segfault’s Answer Guy: “I have a problem. I use KDE on my desktop and my girlfriend uses GNOME. When she found out about KDE she
left me. What should I do to bring her back? I tried to install GNOME but she didnt return.”

MSNBC reports on the “Simputer,” a palm-sized Linux-based device that a company in India hopes will bring the Internet to the 95 percent of the world’s population who’ve never logged on.

The press release is at BusinessWire: TeamLinux Corporation and Silicon Valley Bank have announced that Silicon Valley Bank has provided TeamLinux with a $1 million line of credit to support its accelerating growth.
TeamLinux Corporation provides web-enabled products, maintenance and professional services in
heterogeneous environments enabled by Linux and other open source technology.

The Standard reports on what may be bad news for Napster: “Napster, the contentious online
music-swapping service, will face the same
judge who ordered an injunction against it
when lawsuits brought by heavy metal
group Metallica and rap star Dr. Dre
proceed.

Judges at a Los Angeles federal court
ordered the cases transferred to U.S.
District Court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel in
San Francisco on Monday.”

Wired.com says early benchmark tests have Transmeta’s Crusoe chip not winning any races: “Sony and NEC launched the first notebooks based on Transmeta’s revolutionary
new Crusoe chip, but preliminary benchmark scores seem to indicate the
much-ballyhooed chips are no speed demons.”

CNet reports: “While file-trading paragon Napster waits in court and rival Scour seeks bankruptcy
protection, another potentially landmark online music case is moving toward resolution.

MP3Board.com, which is being sued by the record industry for allegedly linking to unauthorized copies
of music files online, has seen part of its myriad associate lawsuits bundled together in New York.”

ZDNet reviews OpenSales AllCommerce product, saying it “lets you put up a store with virtually no start-up software costs. A freely distributed open-source solution, this program truly surprised us with its maturity.”

Newlix Corp. has announced
the hiring of Nortel veteran Randy Kun as vice president of product
development. He brings 18 years of
progressively responsible experience at Nortel Networks to the task of
product development at Newlix. In addition to product lines and marketing,
he managed a team of 50 people responsible for integrating Nortel’s
flagship switching products. Press release at Linux PR.

Slashdotters talk about this announcement: “n a low-key technical session Friday morning
at ALS, kernel hacker Daniel Philips announced to the world the minor revolution he’s
planning — which could end up replacing Linux’s old standby ext2fs (and it’s coming
replacement ext3fs) with his Tux2 filesystem.”

Posted at LWN.net: There is a bug in the traceroute command that can possibly be use
by local users to obtain super user privilege. It is suggested
to upgrade your traceroute to the version provided.