Punk band Offspring said Friday it will give away a new album on the Web, hitting asour note with a recording industry fighting a landmark copyright case against Internet song-swap service Napster Inc. Offspring’s strategy directly contradicts the recording industry’s argument that Napster’s technology is hurting salesby enabling fans to get music for free. Reuters has the story.

KDE has announced that 1.94 “Kandidat,” the fifth and final beta preview of Kopernicus, has been released. Slashdot readers discuss the news. The press release is at LinuxPR.

Behind the candy-coated shell, Mac OS X provides all the power of Unix with very few compromises, according to a review at MacWorld.

Linux.com article suggest, the next time you compare two programs in order to decide which to install ask yourself “Will this program do what I want?” and not “Was this written by someone I dislike?”

Newsbytes is reporting, legislation scheduled to be voted on in a House subcommittee on Monday could force Web surfers to pay up to 33 percent more for Internet access, a coalition of Internet service providers said today.

This SecurityPortal article asks, how do we know when we are spending too much to secure our systems?

A gaping hole has been discovered in the GNU General Public License, the legal document at the heart of open source, and dear Sun has driven a Mack truck named Solaris x86 straight through it, from LinuxGram.

According to The Register, the writer of the CIH, or Chernobyl, virus has been detained by Taiwanese authorities who plan to bring him to trial for all the damage the virus caused, and if found guilty he faces up to three years in jail for his escapade.

Linux PR reports, The French National Institute for Nuclear Safety and Protection is using Open CASCADE for modeling extremely precise 3D environments.

LinuxDevices.com draws on inputs from seven “real-time experts” to put together a comprehensive definition of real-time, probe the issues associated with obtaining adequate real-time performance in Linux
systems, and understand some of the alternative real-time Linux approaches.