California won’t be introducing an Internet tax, after all, says ZDNet.

IBM has introduced the newest
ThinkPad* A Series and ThinkPad T Series models
featuring the latest core technologies to drive
performance improvements, larger hard drives and a
common set of shared options and accessories with existing ThinkPad A Series,
T Series and X Series models. Both A Series and T Series users will have a choice of operating systems
including Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 98 Second
Edition, and Caldera Open Linux eDesktop 2.4. The press release is at Internet Wire.

From a column at the Independent of UK: “Last March, I wrote about the experience of being hacked. Your correspondent, still a Linux newbie after months of effort, discovered that his home-built Red Hat Linux machine had been commandeered and turned into an IRC chatbot by someone named ‘bonez’. ”

Internet technology firm Zero Knowledge said its
anonymous Internet browser Freedom should be available to
Linux users next month, reports ZDNet UK.

TurboLinux has announced that computer giant Acer will ship the TurboLinux operating system in the European market on
selected models of AcerPower and Veriton business desktop computers. Read the press release from Business Wire.

Dell has announced first-to-market
availability of Version 7 of the Red Hat Linux operating system on Dell PowerEdge servers
and Dell Precision Workstations worldwide. The press release is from Business Wire.

From column at Sun World: “There’s an old saying, ‘The right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing.’ Sometimes it seems
as if Sun has a split-brain personality, particularly when it comes to releasing Solaris source code.”

LinuxWorld reviews the Omnis Studio RAD tool: “This RAD tool pulls its weight, but still suffers from some bugs and annoying licensing.”

From a Wired.com story about AOL promoting Internet music services: “Ian Clarke turned the world on its head with
the development of Freenet, a decentralized, anonymous
information-sharing application which would dwarf Napster in its
ability to connect users.

What is in doubt is when, or if, the open source programming
will ever be finished and usable by a mass, mainstream audience
living in the point-and-click, AOL world.”

Akopia Interchange, a leading
open source e-commerce software has been selected by Red Hat for inclusion on
Linux 7, Deluxe edition, LACD. The press release is at LinuxPR.