The Register reports that Jedi Knights has made the list of religions on the UK 2001 census. “Coming very near the bottom of an official list of religions put out by the Statistics
Office, Jedi Knight is known by the code 896. Heathen comes in at 897. Followed
by Atheist at 898 and lastly None with 899. It’s not exactly a ringing endorsement
though since the 800s come after every other religion, no matter how obscure, and
700 is used for all ‘other religions’.”

CNet reports that design problems are preventing Transmeta from shipping the Crusoe 5800 in production volumes.

It’s posted at LWN.net. Among the items: “DDP Needs You! The Debian Documentation Project was formed to
coordinate and unify all efforts to write more and better
documentation for the Debian system. It contains quite a lot
documents, ranging from a FAQ, several users manuals, some
administration and network manuals concluding with the
Securing Debian Manual which we mentioned in our last issue. Only
a few of these documents are maintained properly, most of them are in
an unfinished state which doesn’t render them quite useful.”

The review is at ZDNet. “Red Hat 7.2 isn’t quite a knife in the heart of Windows yet. However, we can’t help but feel that it will certainly nick a major artery.”

InfoWorld reports that Transmeta’s third-quarter revenue could be up to 50 percent lower than originally expected.

Anonymous Reader writes, “This LinuxDevices.com ‘sneak preview’ profiles a unique new Linux-based wireless phone which combines communications and entertainment within a customizable two-part design. Its maker intends to initially market the device to the “teen market”, offering a colorful phone with cool teen-oriented capabilities. The device is based on an ARM7 processor, running Linux kernel 2.4.5 along with BusyBox and Microwindows. Read it at LinuxDevices.com.”

ZDNet reports that customer complaints have forced Microsoft to revise the deadline for its new
software-licensing plan. Microsoft says companies have until July 31, 2002, rather than Feb. 28, 2002,
to enter Microsoft’s controversial Software Assurance licensing program.

ZDNet has a short item saying
Texas Instruments will support Linux as an operating system to run atop its
Open Multimedia Application Platform designs for next-generation cell phone designs.

It’s a Slashdot, of course. Among the questions: “From my perspective, it seems that all of the politicians in congress seem to be
firmly in the grasp of big business … Are there any particular
politicians that seem more receptive (that could potentially campaign and convince
others)?

Reuters (via Yahoo): “The U.S. Supreme
Court on Tuesday rejected
Microsoft Corp.’s request to overturn a ruling that
the software giant violated U.S. antitrust laws,
leaving the case in the hands of a lower court
which has ordered settlement talks in the landmark
case.

The high court declined without any comment or
dissent to review the June 28 ruling by the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia,
which concluded Microsoft had illegally
maintained its monopoly over the market for
personal computer operating systems.”