From a Thursday stock market roundup at Wired.com: VA Linux (LNUX) continued its rally, picking up 3 3/16 to 55. (Full disclosure: VA Linux owns NewsForge.)

What services do you need? Well, that depends on how you plan to use your system. The Geek will show you how to set up a run level for every occasion. The story’s at LinuxWorld.com.

Signalground.com surveys numerous motherboard Web sites on patrol for any and all references to Linux (compatibility test reports, known problem reports, Linux drivers or otherwise).

Patches are available for the 4.x and 5.x kernels. Versions of 4.x and 5.x downloaded after August 15, 2000 are not vulnerable. Users of 3.x versions of FreeBSD should upgrade to 4.x if possible. The advisory is at securityfocus.com.

From an article at Linux Journal: “Calling a system embedded doesn’t have anything to do with its size, but whether it performs some dedicated task. Besides the size changes over the years, there have been cost changes. While my microwave doesn’t have an embedded processor in it, most do as do most traffic light controllers and virtually every printer in the world.”

Red Hat has more of the Linux market than its next five competitors combined, but those competitors all are increasing their share faster, a study has found. Red Hat shipped 48 percent of the copies of Linux that were sold in 1999, according to market research firm International Data Corp. But while that market grew 89 percent from 1998 to 1999, Red Hat’s share of the market grew only 69 percent, said IDC analyst Dan Kusnetzky. CNet’s story.

BSD Today looks at two fully-featured spreadsheets: Starcalc and Xess.

The newsletter includes a blurb on FreePad, Norway’s alternative to Sweden’s Screen Phone.

The Tokyo Linux Users Group, jointly with the Linux Seminar
Working Group, Project BLUE and the Yokohama Linux Users Group,
is pleased to host Mr. Jon “maddog” Hall, executive director
of Linux International, for a talk on the evolution of the Linux
operating system and an overview of the re-structuring of Linux
International to meet the needs that arise from the growth of Linux.
The talk will be at IBM Japan Headquarters Auditorium, at 18:30
on September 5, 2000. This event is open to the public and everyone
is welcome. The press release is at LinuxPR.

Upside.com follows up on the announcement Wednesday that four technology companies are partnering to open a Linux lab: “Face it. If you work with Linux, and IBM (IBM) hasn’t tried to partner up with you yet, you’re just not working hard enough. Take Wednesday’s four-way announcement involving IBM, Hewlett-Packard (HWP), NEC Corp. and Intel (INTC), in which each company pledged support and resources for the creation of a new, nonprofit Open Source Development Lab.”