Wired.com asks, what if you stage a protest during a supposedly tech-friendly event, and only 13 protesters show up?

CNet reports that Turbolinux
“now is trying to direct attention to higher-level software that runs on many different
computers.”

Posted at LWN.net: After 5 months, 5 beta releases and 4 release candidate versions,
the phpMyAdmin developers are pleased to announce the availability
of phpMyAdmin 2.2.0.

phpMyAdmin is intended to handle the administration of MySQL over
the Web. The project was started by Tobias Ratschiller in 1998,
and is now one of the most popular PHP script used worldwide.

LinuxDevices.com has a press release: Mizi Research
has a contract to supply its Embedded Linux operating
system, Linuette, to CIIT for use as the operating system
within a newly developed multimedia PDA.

Anonymous Reader writes, “According to this article at LinuxDevices.com, embedded Linux vendor Lineo Inc. and Bangalore-based Wipro, an engineering service provider in the embedded space, have formed a world-wide strategic partnership whereby the two companies will collaborate on sales, marketing, and technology development opportunities.”

Commentary from ZDNet: “All you need to do is scan the headlines for the last 30 days to see that that Linux and open
source have gained significant momentum, beautifully leveraging the turmoil in which Microsoft
now finds itself. In all its life, IBM OS/2 never achieved the popularity Linux has in just the past
month. Fortunately, for IBM, the company couldn’t have picked a more precise moment to
announce its big customer wins that include Linux running on a range of systems that span
low-end servers to big iron.”

CNet reports that version 6.0 of StarOffice will break up the suite into individual programs that can run separate from each other. That should make the package less sluggish than the 5.2 release.

Posted at LWN.net: MontaVista Software, the company powering
the embedded revolution, is sponsoring four half-day seminars for embedded
software developers in Europe. The seminars, entitled “Moving from a
Proprietary RTOS to Embedded Linux,” will be held in Munich, Germany, on
Tuesday, October 9; in Paris, France, on Wednesday, October 10; in London,
UK, on Thursday, October 11; and in Eindhoven, Netherlands, on Friday,
October 12.

Reuters has an interview with Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov, who’s accused of violating the U.S. DMCA. Sklyarov says he’s not scared and he’s not worrying about things he can’t change. He’s confident justice will prevail.

From Net-Security.org: “I recently discovered a bug in gnut, a console/www
Gnutella client for Linux and Windows, that allows the
injection of html code in the Search Result Page of the
Webfrontend.

This is done by sharing a file with html tags embedded.
test<.hr>.mp3 for example More complex things are possible
with Javascript and shared Subdirectories. The html code
will be displayed in the browser of every gnut webfrontend
user, who gets that file as a search result.”