From the Seattle Post Intelligencer:
“U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly gave Microsoft a stern warning Friday to keep its promise to abide by antitrust penalties
expected later this year.”

– By Grant Gross –
Not that Microsoft asked for this advice, but Gartner Group says Windows security would benefit from an Open Source style code review. Any bets on how soon that’ll happen?
But the U.S. Senate seems to not realize Windows’ failings. Wired.com notes Senate staffers have little choice on what operating system to use with full support: Windows or Windows.

If you’re looking for antivirus solutions in Linux (Windows clients connected to a Linux server can still get viruses, and it’s easier to stop them at the server level) Mike Dittmeier offers a roundup of options.

Robin “Roblimo” Miller suggests a new approach to advocating Linux to those used to a Microsoft world. Linux is mainstream, he says, and business owners should know how mainstream it is.

Linux on servers, mainframes

Where’s the hardware market related to Linux going? That’s the question we asked in a couple of articles this week. Jack Bryar suggests the traditional server market isn’t particularly strong. Meanwhile, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols examines Linux on mainframes and says that market is healthy and getting better.

DeCSS still banned

Not good news for the DeCSS code that allows DVDs to be played on Linux machines and for free speech: 2600 Magazine has lost its appeal of a ruling banning it from posting DeCSS.

Success story of the week

VARBusiness notes that Linux is gaining momentum in the value-added reseller space. The example used is Fly-By-Day Consulting, which has worked with a Japanese company to install a Linux server.

Newly released

ZDNet notes the release of Ximian Evolution 1.0.5, the Linux email suite.

Netscape 6.2.3 was released. It’s based on the Gecko browser engine and is available for Linux.

GCC 3.1 was announced.

Opera 6.0 for Linux was released. Opera’s a Web browser.

Newly reviewed

The Associated Press reviews the Sharp Zaurus and says the Linux-powered handheld is “halfway there.”

The Wall Street Journal reviews StarOffice 6.0 and says it falls flat on compatibility and ease of use.

LinuxOrbit reviews VMWare 3.1 for Linux, calling it a solid update to the package that allows people to run two different operating systems on one computer.

LinuxBeginner.org looks at Red Hat 7.3 and gives it good marks.

New at NewsForge/Linux.com

Among the other stories we reported first this week:

Bruce Tober looks at the outlook for Linux in Russia and finds mixed results so far, but a growing interest.

Tina Gasperson generated a lot of discussion by suggesting that a Sustainable Computing Consortium won’t work if it doesn’t embrace open standards.

Stock news

The Nasdaq had a good week for a first time in several weeks, rising from 1,600.85, to 1741.39 in the space of five days. Our list of 11 Open Source related stocks didn’t fare quite as well — six were up, four down, and one stood pat for the week.

Among the significant news this week, news agency Reuters chose Red Hat Linux with Hewlett-Packard hardware for a market-data delivery system. Both companies’ stock were up this week, although Red Hat’s was just a few cents.

Here’s how Open Source and related stocks ended this past week:

Company Name	Symbol	5/10 Close	5/17 Close
Apple	AAPL	23.32	25.01
Borland Software Int’l	BORL	9.78	9.99
Caldera International	CALD	0.87	0.73
Hewlett-Packard	HPQ	19.26	19.68
IBM	IBM	79.68	85.69
MandrakeSoft	4477.PA	e2.70	e2.70
Red Hat	RHAT	5.03	5.12
Sun Microsystems	SUNW	6.26	7.35
TiVo	TIVO	4.00	3.90
VA Software	LNUX	1.11	1.0497
Wind River Systems	WIND	7.49	7.22

Dubai, UAE — “The ‘Ready for Real Business’ Linux event, which is running in major cities around the world, will bring to the Middle East some of the world’s pre-eminent Linux experts for a one-day exclusive event taking place in Manama on June 2nd, 2002.” Basically an IBM thing, but that’s cool. Story at AMEInfo.com.

Reuters via Boston Globe: “Silicon Valley’s high-powered deal makers have seen a staggering drop in business. Just a short three years ago, investment bankers with technology expertise frantically were rushing initial public offerings to market and forcing lucrative, but often ill-conceived, mergers. Now, they just try to help clients survive”.

Washington Post tech columnist Rob Pegoraro tests several recent Linux distributions and has a hard time with them, mostly because of Winmodems and unsupported laptop video and sound cards. (Pegoraro is a known Mac user; draw your own conclusions.)

Linux Journal post: “Last May, a few members of New York’s Free Software community broke off from the technology-focused groups that have surrounded the GNU/Linux mania of the last few years and began to focus more on the pressing issues of fair use that the Free Software movement depends upon. Over the last decade, technophiles have focused on building free software systems and making them available to the public, giving only reactionary responses to the ongoing infringement of the public’s rights with regard to digital media. We protested the DMCA, and we protested when Jon Johansen was arrested over the DeCSS hack that provided access to commercial DVDs on free OSes. It became apparent, however, when we analyzed how the Free Software community was responding to these threats and considered the results of these efforts, that something new needed to be tried. Therefore, we founded NY Fair Use in May of 2001 to pick up the slack and to be more aggressive in campaigning for fair use and sane copyright law.”

Linus has announced the release of Linux kernel 2.5.16. The full changelog can be found at kernel.org.

From the Register:
“A Japanese cryptographer has demonstrated how fingerprint recognition devices can be fooled using a combination of low cunning, cheap kitchen supplies
and a digital camera.”

Anonymous Reader writes “With a few new developers the work on the xbox-linux port goes straight forward. Especially Michael Steil brought new impressions to the project-Team. a filesystem modul (Xbox FatX filesystem) for the Linux Kernel 2.4.x is allready done. The Xbox-Linux documentation page is currently the nr 1 place for informations related to xbox-hacking. Now where the modchips are available another point of the roadmap is done, the team bind his skills now completly to the reverse-enginering part. If they are able to execute own code on the xbox the work on the bootloader will start. The project turned from his mainphase in August 2001 to a stable and profesional ports-team. The Xbox-Linux Project was started by the H Zero Severn – Unix/Linux Development and Research Team.

http://www.xbox-linux.orghttp://us.xbox-linux.orghttp://www.h07.org“

CBS News talks about eBooks and how publishers seem to love the idea but have only one little problem with it: Nobody’s buying the things. Oh, well.