EET.com reports: “The PC industry is circling its wagons in preparation to
fight proposed copy-protection legislation, arguing at a Monday (Oct. 22)
briefing that the protection plan backed by Hollywood would freeze
technology while failing to solve piracy concerns.”

CNet reports that Fujitsu will market a notebook PC using the latest low-power Crusoe processor from Transmeta in the United States.

From EET.com: “Java is expected to strengthen its position in car
information and entertainment systems Monday (Oct. 22) when Wind
River System Inc., a major operating-system maker, becomes an ally, thus
raising questions about which software platforms will control the
automotive dashboard.”

Slashdot readers discuss the announcement from Trolltech. “With its release of Qt/Mac, Trolltech has
added Apple Macintosh to the list of platforms supported by Qt, an emerging
industry standard in cross-platform software development. Application developers
using Qt can now target Mac OS X with the same ease, as they are currently
targeting Windows, Linux, Unix, and embedded Linux systems.”

Cristian R. Arroyo writes, “Being the first and most popular Latin Linux distribution, Conectiva Linux is a must-see for all spanish and portuguese speaking Linux users around the world (Conectiva Linux supports only 3 languages: English, Spanish and Portuguese). This review of Conectiva Linux 7.0 at Planeta Linux Argentina (in Spanish) goes trough the most importart features of this new version (including it’s own implementation of APT for .RPM Linux systems), so that we can get a rather complete picture of it’s unique personality. A somewhat funny translation is available using Google.”

Anonymous Reader writes, “In this white paper at LinuxDevices.com, Hewlett-Packard Labs researcher Wesley Chan provides an overview of the innovative R&D activities taking place within HP’s ‘Cooltown’ program. Chan defines the initiative’s philosophy and goals, describes several key open source software and hardware components that have been developed, and explains how developers and companies can join in creating the Cooltown vision of a world in which ‘humans are mobile, devices and services are federated and context-aware, and everything has a web presence.'”

Anonymous Reader writes, “Elias Levy, ex-moderator of BUGTRAQ, answers Microsoft’s Scott Culp article on Information Anarchy in an article at SecurityFocus.” From the article: “It appears Culp is more comfortable with an ‘information dictatorship’ or ‘information oligarchy’ model …”

The headline’s a bit misleading, but IDG.net reports on the release of Red Hat Linux 7.2 and the pricing for the Red Hat Embedded Linux Developer Suite, U.S. $2,500.

osOpinion says the Linux desktop is about ready for Grandma to use. “Add in the licensing cost difference between Linux and Windows XP, and Linux is on deck to become the average corporate user’s desktop.”

At the Dot: “Two major products of the KDE project won Linux New Media awards at the ‘Systeme’ fair in München. Konqueror, the versatile KDE web browser, file manager and document viewer, won the award for “Best client-side Open Source Software”. KDevelop , the outstanding integrated development environment … merited the ‘Best development tool’ award.”