IDG is reporting that Philips Electronics has filed suit against six electronics companies for patent infringment.

NW Fusion reports on the digital signatures law in the US taking effect.

ICANN’s elections started with a bit of a bump, according to InfoWorld.

ZDNet tells of the latest attempts to have new top-level domains (.com, .org, etc) created.

Linux PR tells of AMIRIX’s expanding Embedded Linux development team.

From PR Newswire: Mainsoft, the e-porting company,
today announced the general availability of Visual MainWin, the first
application porting platform allowing developers — with no UNIX expertise
— to write on Windows and port simultaneously to UNIX.

Linux World offers advice on how to find an Open Source project you like: “As it turns out, open source software is such a good idea that it doesn’t always have to be done
for free. Several projects already are pioneering innovations to bring together organizations that
want open source software developed and the programmers who can deliver. That comparison
describes the different matchmakers now in operation. Which ones provide real services? Which
are likely to still be in business in 2001 and beyond? Once you’ve read this article, you can judge
for yourself how each one might help meet your open source goals.”

Dot.KDE.org posts the announcement: Matthias Elter, the KDE 2.0 release coordinator, has officially
announced that KDE has been tagged for the 2.0 release in
CVS! Things are moving on schedule for an Oct. 16 release date. Matthias
noted that the KDE 2.0 release will be based on the forthcoming
Qt-2.2.1.

Linux programmer Alan Cox posts this on Gnome.org: “While fixing other problems with the gnorpm package a locally exploitable
security hole was found where a normal user could trick root running GnoRPM
into writing to arbitary files due to a bug in the gnorpm tmp file handling.”

Tomshardware offers a review:

“A month later than for the Microsoft operating systems NVIDIA has finally released its Linux driver 0.95, which unofficially includes ‘Detonator3’-tuning. 7 NVIDIA 3D cards under SuSE’s brand new Linux version 7.0 had to show if the advance over the previous driver 0.94 is able to live up to the improvements seen with Detonator 3 under Windows 2000.”