CNet reports that Apple is expected Tuesdady to unveil a long-anticipated upgrade to the
Mac operating system.

Network World Fusion has a story on how Nasdaq’s network stayed up during the attacks on New York Sept. 11. “All of the trading information is monitored and put into repositories for market
regulation, where suspect behavior can be researched. A 20-50T byte on-line
Oracle database provides the holding tank for that information. That database
resides on a Sequent server that runs a BSD derivative operating system.”

Posted at BSDToday: Wasabi Systems, Inc., the premier provider of the
NetBSD embeddable open source operating system, today announced shipment of
NetBSD v. 1.5.2. NetBSD 1.5.2 includes many new and enhanced features over the
previous versions.

Gnome.org has the guide to installing Gnome 1.4.1. “The GNOME Installation Guide was written to help unfamiliar users install a
stable GNOME system that includes more than the default applications. It
teaches readers how to compile GNOME on their own instead of installing
precompiled packages. It also covers installation of extra GNOME programs,
both those hosted by the GNOME project and those which are no.”

Slashdot has a link to a Gartner Group commentary recommending recommending MS IIS be replaced in
corporate environments because of security problems.

Posted at LWN.net: Dr. Richard Stallman,
founder and President of the Free Software Foundation, and Eben Moglen,
Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and General Counsel for the FSF,
will speak at George Washington University’s Cyberspace Policy Institute
in Washington, D.C., October 10, 2001 at the CPI’s Free Software
Conference: “Free Software: the Free Market/Free Speech Solution to the
Microsoft Antitrust Problem.”

Zimmerman’s note is posted to Slashdot. “The
article states that as the inventor of PGP, I was ‘overwhelmed with feelings of guilt’. I never
implied that in the interview, and specifically went out of my way to emphasize to her that that
was not the case, and made her repeat back to me this point so that she would not get it wrong
in the article.”

ZDNet reports that Napster has announced a major deal with music publishers,
settling part of a lawsuit and helping clear the way for its planned
subscription service.

From vnunet.com: “There was much mocking in the Linux camp this weekend when it
was discovered that the Sir Cam virus will run under the Open
Source operating system – but only under the Wine Windows
emulator.”

Network World Fusion has more information on Larry Ellison offering to give away software to the U.S. government for a national ID card.