Al “Alkini” Koskelin writes, “Matt Matthews, with the help of the LG staff and some ex-employees of Loki, has put together a Loki timeline at LinuxGames.com. The timeline is an attempt to document every major event in Loki‘s past, starting with the announcement of SDL and the Launch of the Loki Website through today, when Loki is officially ceasing operations.”

Eugenia writes, “Last in the series of special FreeBSD articles this week on OSNews, is a guide that will help users migrate from Linux to FreeBSD by spotting the main differences between the two popular systems. Yesterday, OSNews featured a review of the ‘FreeBSD Unleashed‘ book.”

Anonymous Reader tells us of this press release at Compaq.com: Compaq Computer Corporation
(NYSE: CPQ), a leader in global enterprise technology and Sendmail, Inc., a leading
provider of e-mail solutions, today announced the availability of the first
enterprise-class, Linux-based e-mail solutions for industry-standard Compaq
ProLiant servers. The customizable solutions combine ProLiant servers with
Sendmail’s Mailstream Manager and Sendmail’s Integrated Mail Suite
(IMS). These highly available, secure e-mail systems are ideal for organizations and
service providers that are looking to reduce the costs associated with deploying and
maintaining their current RISC-based e-mail infrastructure, and extend e-mail access
to additional users.

Slashdot readers discuss this announcement: “I’m pleased to
announce that Libranet has started taking pre-orders for Libranet
GNU/Linux 2.0. I feel I should note, of all the vaunted Debian
based commercial distributions (Stormix, Corel, Progeny) Libranet
is the only one left … Libranet
has proven that to stay in the race what you need is a good product rather than
millions of dollars behind you; but that’s what the world of Free/Open software is
all about, isn’t it?”

IDG News Service reports that Oracle is about to replace three Unix servers
that run the bulk of its business applications
with a cluster of Intel servers running Linux,
according to Oracle Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison.

jochem writes, “The 5th issue of the Debian Weekly News (DWN) is out. There is much concern amoung the community on the progress of the next release codenamed ‘woody’. Andrian Bunk, a high-profile maintainer, called it a day last week and left his packages wandering orphaned. The motivation for his decision are secretely shared amoung many developers and users. Read all about it and more less dramatical and highly interesting stuff…”

NWfusion quotes an IBM executive as saying Linux has “reshaped our
entire server business.”

Computerwire’s take (via The Register) on the LinuxWold keynote from HP’s CEO.

“Calm down, Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina told an audience at the
LinuxWorld conference in New York yesterday. Despite her high-profile
presence delivering the conference’s opening keynote, Fiorina made it clear that
HP sees Linux only as another revenue-earner, and is certainly not going to follow
IBM into making any billion-dollar commitments to the open source operating
system.”

From
Wired.com: “LinuxWorld 2002 isn’t quite somber, but it’s certainly serious.

Gone are the interesting giveaways, the company-sponsored lavish parties, and gone for the most part
are the guys with purple hair and tattered black T-shirts. LinuxWorld is all about business this year.”

NewsFactor Network writes, “An Internet advocacy group has urged U.S. state attorneys general to take immediate investigative action against Microsoft’s Passport suite of services, charging the software company with improperly collecting personal user information and placing that information at risk online. In a letter sent to all 50 state attorneys general, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) outlined its charges against Microsoft’s Wallet, Kids Passport, Hailstorm and .NET services. EPIC filed complaints with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in July and August last year. The group said that because neither complaint was addressed by the FTC, it is now turning to the states for support.”