The announcement is at LWN.net. Highlights: New tools, old tools; coding projects underway; OpenNMS and security.

BSDCon 2000 will be Oct. 14 to 20 at the Hyatt Regency in Monterey, Calif. BSD Today has the announcement.

The continuing series on Atholon system configurations is at 32bitsonline.

This week’s edition is posted at LWN.net: “In the very near future, a Fortune 100 media company will launch a new
web initiative for which Zope is the content management platform.
Digital Creations has been working closely with the company on the
architecture for the project.”

From a column at ZDNet: “Like so many other suckers, I purchased Windows Millennium Edition last week and spent the weekend installing it.
I can save you reading the rest of this column by offering a single word of advice: Don’t.”

Slashdot readers discuss RoboCup2000, in which teams competed by using LInux to build
sensory and visual intelligence into robots.

Via Technologies announced Wednesday its Starter Information PC
Reference System, for as low as $199. One of the keys to the low price is that the system uses the open-source Linux
operating system rather than Microsoft’s Windows,

reports the IDG News Service.

Red Hat is planning a new concept in the provision of its Linux software to users, “essentially a subscription service that connects customers to Red Hat’s central office, allowing them to receive all Red Hat Linux software updates and patches as well as news of kernel and other Linux developments for a monthly fee.” The story is from eWeek.

Shawei.com Olympics webcasts draw 20 million hits daily on high availability Internet solution built by TurboLinux, Compaq and Oracle, from Linux PR.

BSD Today reports, BSDi, the leader in Internet infrastructure-grade solutions, will announce its iXtreme Series 1U rackmount Internet servers — the industry’s first dual-processor 1U systems with dual hot-swappable hard drives.