Posted at Business Wire: “IDG World Expo has announced the winners of awards recognizing achievements by the open source
community at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, held this week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The awards included the $25,000 IDG/Linus Torvalds Community
Award, the Open Source Product Excellence Awards, and the OSDL Enterprise Achievement Award.”

From the Boston Globe: “Linux’s victory is still far from complete. It’s barely made a scratch on
the desktops of the world. Early this month, Dell Computer Corp.
stopped offering its customers Linux-based PCs as an alternative to
Microsoft Corp.’s Windows — there just wasn’t enough demand for
them. And Loki Software Inc., which creates Linux versions of popular
computer games, just filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
But in corporate America, as Microsoft steadily ratchets up the cost of
each new upgrade, Linux looks better every day. And so does the
development model that created it. Torvalds helped create a culture,
not just an operating system.”

From BetaNews: “Set for a public beta in earlier October and release some time in the first quarter of 2002, StarOffice has undergone numerous changes since version 5.2. Sun has
made good on it promise to target key areas cited by user feedback, and has opted to remove the much maligned integrated desktop.

Additionally, performance has been enhanced through componentization. The entire suite will not load when users simply wish to perform a routine task – leading
to quicker load times and a lower utilization of system resources. According to Sun, an assortment of bugs and code optimizations were taken on by the open
source community — contributing to the overall quality of the product.”

From a press release posted at Enterprise Linux Today: “The Open Source Development Lab (OSDL), an independent, vendor-neutral, non-profit
organization dedicated to enabling Linux for enterprise and carrier-class functionality, today presented the first OSDL Enterprise
Achievement Award to Heinz Mauelshagen, a German software developer.

Tim Witham, OSDL lab director, awarded Mauelshagen the $25,000 prize at LinuxWorld Expo before a packed audience of Linux
enthusiasts and community leaders as well as corporate Linux users.”

“Once the province of rebel programmers that championed the free software, these
days Linux is supported by profit-oriented, blue-chip companies. The semiannual
LinuxWorld Expo showcases booths from IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Compaq
Computer, among others.

“Linux is moving into the mainstream,” said Ross Mauri, a vice president at IBM,
which plans to spend a billion dollars this year developing and deploying Linux
and Linux-based applications.” Read the full story at SiliconValley.com.

From Wired News: “In the past, LinuxWorld has had a refreshing lightheartedness to it. Since the open-source people who usually flock to Linux
events are more carefree than the marketing types who clog other Internet events, the conferences have been, at the very least, tolerable.

This year the marketers have attacked. Now, it’s virtually impossible to walk around LinuxWorld without hearing pitches from company reps extolling the
benefits of Linux for “mission-critical applications in the enterprise,” or some such drivel.

Everyone’s saying that it’s time for Linux to grow up — that it’s no longer a hacker OS, that it’s moved beyond serving geeky programmers and
hermetic server admins and that Linux now belongs smack in the middle of world commerce.”

Reuters: “The number of Internet companies
closing up shop fell slightly in August from July — the fourth straight
monthly decline — hinting the worst may be over for the beaten down
dot-com industry, though there may be a rise in shutdowns in the
near-term as companies and investors start year-end housecleaning, a
report on Thursday said.

Internet shutdowns totaled 38 in August, a “relatively modest” number
and down from 39 in July, according to the report by San
Francisco-based Webmergers.com.”

From the Wall Street Journal (via ZDNet): “In another potential blow to online publishing, a U.S. programmer
says he has developed software that defeats the most advanced encryption features of
Microsoft’s Reader, a software program for distributing electronic books.

The programmer’s claim was reported Thursday on the Web site of MIT Technology Review, a
publication of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston.”

UnixReview.com takes a look at Bob Toxen’s Real World Linux Security: Intrusion Prevention, Detection, and Recovery: “The only complaint I have about the book is the use of skulls for the danger level. One skull indicates a minor effect or risk, while five
skulls means the risk is too dangerous. It is often hard to discern whether the skulls refer to the topic just mentioned, or the subsequent
one.

While many of the threats and vulnerabilities in the book indeed have five skulls, Real World Linux Security deserves five stars. It is an
excellent reference about Linux security — a topic that, while timely, does not always get the respect it deserves.”

Posted at The Dot: “During the first day of the LinuxWorld Expo, Hancom Linux and theKompany.com became the talk of
the show with the news that they are merging their product lines and releasing a complete Linux/KDE
office suite this coming November. Dubbed “HancomOffice 2.0″, the suite will combine 4 Hancom
products…”