BSDToday has a brief piece discussing the SMP system in FreeBSD 3.x and 4.0, and how it will change in the future to accommodate better SMP expandibility. This change will remove a global kernel lock which stops SMP performance from increasing much past 2 CPUs, and improve the code by allowing the kernel to have different threads to handle interrupts.

An eBusiness story says,
“It’s critical to build trust between you and the person you’re talking to. There’s power in first-hand stories,” said Pavlicek, who has spent the last five years informing others about using open source technologies.”
-Anonymous Reader

Slashdot has a dicussion (plus a link to Linuxplanet with the original piece) detailing the design of the Nautilus, and some of the issues of making a distribution-neutral program.

ZDNet.uk article about potential market effects of RSA encyption scheme becoming public domain.

The Three CyberPigs, the Idea Seekers gang, and other cartoons will soon help teach children to avoid bad things on the Internet. (Not NewsForge, we hope!) Story at MSNBC. A visit to Disney’s Surf Swell Island (sponsored in part by NetNanny) may also help keep tykes safe from online dangers.

Press release from Sun Microsystems about its participation in an industry forum that “will enable Sun to
help accelerate the promotion and adoption of the MPEG-4 standard, which is
designed to handle the transportation, synchronization, coding and rendering
of audiovisual multimedia content for Internet and wireless applications.”

PR News Wire is carrying Napster’s response to the US Government’s backing of the RIAA position in their ongoing lawsuit.

ICANN’s experiment in global democracy is drawing to a close, says a story at TechWeb.

The latest shuttle mission is up, and it marks the beginning of an ambitious marathon run to the space station over several missions.

Intel is subsidising RamBus technology for Pentium 4 equipped computers, potentially reducing the price by $100.