The Standard tells of increasing problems with Gnutella, a peer-to-peer, rather then server-based, mp3 sharing utility, as a result of its server-less design.

AnandTech analyses the relationship between Matrox and Linux, its history, and its future.

Yahoo is replacing Amazon with Barnes and Noble as it’s feature book-seller, according to CNet.

An small Italian business, purported to assemble computers with overclocked Intel processors, under the name B52 has won three rounds in court against Intel. The company is waiting on the fourth ruling, this one about damages, in a final lawsuit brought about by Intel. The story from NW Fusion.

ZDNet tells us of a new company in the running for making money of digital music. MusicBlitz is going directly to the artists for their music.

Just days before the patent was set to expire, RSA Security Inc released it’s well-used RSA public-key encryption algorithm unexpectedly. ComputerWorld has the story.

If you’re in Brussels or The Hague this week, Inprise/Borland is organizing a free half-day seminar on Wednesday, Sept. 20, in
Brussels, Belgium, and Thursday, Sept. 21 in The Hague, The Netherlands,
which will be about JBuilder 4, Inprise Application Server, VisiBroker and of
course Kylix (Delphi for Linux), showing the Kylix IDE in action! The announcement is at Linux Today.

From a story at InfoWorld: “A new Web site will debut on Oct. 2 that enables developers to work
with a variety of platforms to which they normally would not have
easy access.

At the DevelopOnline Web site, developers have access to actual
environments, such as Linux-based PDA (personal digital assistants),
network, and set-top platforms. DevelopOnline’s Steinberg said that
cell phone platforms will be available in the near future.”

RockSolid Enterprises, a
provider of innovative Information Appliances including routers, Internet Access
Devices and Business / Residential Gateways, will demonstrate the first of its
RockSolid Box line of Internet Access Devices (IADs) in Atlanta during the week
of September 26 at the Networld+Interop / Linux Business Expo 2000 trade
shows. The press release is at All Linux Devices.

From a column at Byte.com: “The conversation ambled toward one of his first loves, KDE.
“It’s not a boxers vs. briefs argument. Although the
copyright/copyleft arguments made against KDE aren’t very fair,
what I get with Gnome is simplicity. If I actually get to move
code simply over onto other platforms, so much the better.
Gnome isn’t rocket science,” he said, “and it’s also not Windows
or the Mac UI, either. But the ethnic purity arguments are . KDE
is cool, Gnome is cool, but Gnome is an attitude where KDE is a
more evolved front-end.’ ”