From ZDNet: “Like a newly inaugurated president, the new Hewlett-Packard is giving itself 100 days to
flesh out its strategic vision.”

Network World Fusion reports that the World Wide Web Consortium has
released recommendation of a graphics
language that allows Web designers to create
two-dimensional vector graphics and
exchange them between platforms. W3C’s SVG Working Group has tested the SVG
language in a wide range of open-source and commercially available platforms.

ZDNet has a short item saying NVidia, a leading graphics chip maker, has released a new set of hardware drivers
for the GNU/Linux operating system. Some of the improvements are supposed to help speed
and compatibility.

From PRNewswire: MandrakeSoft
(http://www.mandrakesoft.com), the publisher of the powerful and user-friendly
Mandrake Linux operating system, today announces the release of MandrakeExpert
V2 Support Center. By providing the opportunity for the best Linux experts to
be paid for their services, and for Linux users to receive high-quality and
fast Linux support, MandrakeSoft answers a growing need in Linux Business with
its newly released MandrakeExpert V2 Support Center.

PRNewswire: “Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) this week
continues the iDevelop2001 Live worldwide conference series in Tokyo. Internet
developers, system architects and database administrators will descend upon
the Japan Convention Center in Tokyo on Sept. 6-7 to hear about the latest
Internet trends and technologies directly from the Oracle development experts.”

“Migrating file and print sharing services from a Windows machine to a Linux box is time consuming and often prone to
error. To perform such an endeavor manually, an administrator must set up hundreds (if not thousands) of user
accounts, then create file and print shares, and then copy files from the Windows environment to Linux. This manual
work can take hours, if not days, to complete properly.” More at ZDNET.

CNET: “It’s huge anytime Microsoft endorses a protocol or a service like home networking because they basically legitimize
it,” said Ross Fujimoto, strategic program analyst at Linksys, which makes home-networking kits.

DebianPlanet: “With all the talk of journaling filesystems, I thought I’d write up a how-to.”

ZDNET: “As technology enables consumers
to access digital content more
conveniently, we anticipate that
there will be increasing demand for
e-books,” Rob Solomon, general
manager of Yahoo Shopping, said
in a statement. “Aggregating a
broad collection of the most
sought-after titles in multiple e-book
formats positions us effectively to
meet these needs today and to
meet growing consumer demand in
the future.”

ZDNET: “After more than a year of revisions, the World Wide Web Consortium on Wednesday recommended
specifications for graphics and animation that backers say could give popular Web technologies a run for
their money.

The W3C recommended SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics), advancing it from “candidate recommendation” status
where it has spent the last 13 months having its tires kicked by the Web graphics world.”