KernelTrap.org: “Guillaume Boissiere, maintainer of the Linux Kernel 2.5 Status list, recently posted a new version of his list divided into three categories: … He prefaced his list by asking, ‘Do you think the breakdown is realistic?’… Robert Love suggested, ‘Easily 90% of this stuff should _not_ go in after the freeze. It either needs to make it in now or hold its breath until 2.7.'”

LinuxToday: “Turbolinux today denied rumors that its operations have ‘collapsed,’ and that its facilities in the US have shut down. The company acknowledged, though, that its US arm is undergoing a restructuring and a reduction in force, blaming the reorganization on the withdrawal of a still unidentified investor from a round of funding.”

Anonymous Reader writes: “While open-source software’s reputation for security has taken a hit lately, Microsoft’s Palladium presents itself as an opportunity to improve security by eliminating entire classes of potential exploits. However, Palladium cannot protect us from most security threats — and its aim may be to eliminate open source software on commodity hardware.
Read on: http://online.securityfocus.com/columnists/96.”

From TheRegister: “Notorious and self-confessed capitalist tool Forbes magazine has produced a Linux special report and – good heavens – it seems fair and positive. Not only that – the headlines and straplines on the intro page sound positively like an advertisement for Linux.”

Anonymous Reader writes: “The three-day H2K2 conference wrapped up here Sunday night, having pulled in an estimated two thousand hackers, ex-hackers, security pros and activists to swap war stories and tips, hack the venue and each other, and engage in some navel gazing on their subcultures’ place in the post dot-com era.
See more at:
http://online.securityfocus.com/news/533.”

An anonymous coward writes: “Whatisnew.com addresses a paradigm shift occurring in the computer industry and how industry gossip is showing examples of those changes. Interesting points:

When the computer industry is so tightly inter-related, it’s difficult not to be fascinated by the ‘who is doing what’ syndrome. Our fascinations occur on many levels: personal, product, and business-to-business financial dependence are just a few.

Linux offers not only flair of competition, but potential for new views of how a person can interact with a computer.”

LinuxToday attempts to clear up rumors about layoffs at UnitedLinux partner Turbolinux. “While emphatically refusing to comment on any rumors regarding its partner in UnitedLinux, representatives from SuSE Linux did issue a brief comment today regarding how any possible change in Turbolinux’s status would effect UnitedLinux. In short, not at all.”

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IDG.net has an update on India’s Simputer project. “Sales of the Simputer , a Linux-based handheld computer designed by Indian engineers, have languished at about 150 units since the prototype of the product was ready in April last year. But Encore Software of Bangalore aims to change that with upgraded versions of the product to be launched next month.”

Wired.com reports on efforts to get Linux to work on Microsoft’s Xbox. ” Microsoft wants to control every living room across the country, making the computer the centerpiece of the home entertainment network. The Xbox, Microsoft’s video-game console, has long been rumored to be at the core of that strategy, a dream that may soon come true thanks to a team of hackers who are transforming the game console into a home computer.

The rub is that the newly hacked system will run without any Microsoft software.”