ZDNet is reporting on Palm’s efforts towards mobile ‘net access for Palm users.

NW Fusion reviews Sony’s Crusoe-powered Vaio. Their findings show more battery life, less performance, then current Vaios.

The advisory is at BSD Today: The finger service is used to provide information about users on the
system to remote clients.

Developers from both Open Source desktop environments tell Maximum Linux that they’re looking at some of Windows’ features. “We do actually try to copy the better features of Windows,” a KDE developer said. “But we also get inspiration
from Mac, BeOS and even OS/2.”

Sm@rt Partner reports that peer-to-peer devolpers, at a P2P work session this week, denounced Intel as authoritarian and told the chip maker to revamp its plans in that arena.

Maximum Linux asks the question and answers that being LPI certified can give you connections with big companies.

From a column at Linux World: “I asked for a
comprehensive self-hosting sample implementation of an LSB-compliant Linux distribution. In plain
language, that means I want a standard Linux distribution anyone can install and run. Every
commercial and nonprofit Linux distributor would start with this standard, and then add the unique kind
of value that does not cause incompatibilities.”

Maximum Linux reports on ALS, Day Two: “Tim O’Reilly has a new project up his sleeve called Peer-to-Peer. A conference for the project will take
place in February in San Francisco discussing Peer-to-Peer networking.”

There’s a format bug in the logging code of the mod_php3 module.
It uses apache’s aplog_error function, passing user-specified
input as the format string. The advisory is posted at LWN.net.

ZDNet has a short story about the number of downloads of the Open Source version of Sun’s StarOffice crashing the server Friday afternoon. Can you say Slashdotted? The Register adds this commentary: “Little by little Sun is getting religion, and when it comes to productivity
apps there’s not actually a great deal of choice, even before you
consider that Microsoft just bought a slice of the other contender.”