IDG News Service quotes a newspaper report, which quotes unnamed sources, saying a new round of funding. raising more than U.S. $45 million, has saved the German Linux distribution from insolvancy.

ZDNet reports on law professor and free code advocate Lawrence Lessig’s speech at LinuxWorld. ”
Copyright and patent law, ostensibly designed to protect innovation, now have become tools
large companies can use to maintain their dominance and control, Lessig said in his keynote
address at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. And worse, those who stand to lose are letting
this concentration of power take place.”

From IT-director.com: “As expected, the start of the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco
has witnessed a number of announcements in the Open Source space.
By the end of the event, Linux may, at last, be able to show that it is
gaining a very firm foothold in the Enterprise.”

CNET: “The European Commission said Thursday it has expanded its investigation of Microsoft toThe European Commission said Thursday it has expanded its investigation of Microsoft to
look into whether the U.S. software giant is illegally tying its Media Player to its Windows operating system.

“This statement of objections supplements one sent to the company a year ago and adds a new dimension to the
Commission’s concerns that Microsoft’s actions may harm innovation and restrict choice for consumers,” the
European Union’s competition watchdog said in a statement.”

Standard change log included below.

From: Alan Cox 
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:46:37 +0100


ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/linux-2.4/

                 Intermediate diffs are available from
                         http://www.bzimage.org

2.4.9-ac4
o        ns83820 driver fixes and updates                (Ben LaHaise)
o        Configure.help updates                          (Steven Cole)
o        Add generic pgtable_cache_init()                (Russell King)
         | and remove pae ifdefs from init/main.c

o        Fix X.75 with new hisax drivers and an isdn     (Kai Germaschewski)
         disconnect race
o        Remove now defunct directory offset cast        (me)
o        Make several vm behaviours tunable for now      (Rik van Riel)
         | This is so we can study behaviour patterns not for
         | the long term

o        Merge an additional ide-floppy fix              (Sam Varshavchik)
         | Fixed the ide floppy I/O error funny on some drives

o        Pull dac/adc rate setting into ac97_codec.c     (me)
o        Update mips64 makefiles                         (Ralf Baechle)
o        Complete the missing bits of the proc           (Ralf Baechle)
         infrastructure using constant HZ to userspace
         | This has been partial for a long time, with the mips tree
         | it actually needs to be completed...

o        Avoid oops in rivafb when using 15bit depth     (Steve DuChene)
         on riva128
o        Indent seagate scsi into linux format           (me)
         | Changes pending so do this in two steps..

o        pl2303 updates                                  (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o        Orinoco update                                  (David Gibson)
o        IRQ stack value fix                             (John Byrne)
o        Enable DMA on 20268R                            (Zygo Blaxell)
o        Add missing -EFAULT return to se401             (Pavel Machek)
o        Voodoo 1/2 frame buffer console                         (Ghozlane Toumi)
o        Update cache size reporting errata              (Dave Jones)
o        Fix nasty oops and deadlock in i810_audio       (me)

IDG: “On the second day of the LinuxWorld Expo, users say they’re watching the sluggish U.S. economy and concerns about costly licensing changes proposed by Microsoft to see how their companies could be affected by a myriad of developments happening behind the scenes.”

Wired: “Schools are beginning to scrap hard-wired computer labs in favor of wireless laptops and handheld PCs.

Public school administrators are admitting the failure of schools’ ubiquitous computer labs, which some experts say
have had a negligible impact on education, despite two decades of being in schools.

Now schools are experimenting with wireless computing technology. Instead of taking kids to the computers, the
computers are coming to the kids.”

2600: “Freedom Downtime,” the 2600 documentary on the Free Kevin movement and the hacker culture, has been selected for screening at the Woodstock Film Festival, to be held September 20-23 in Woodstock, New York. The film will be shown on Saturday, September 22nd at 5 pm.”

CNET: “Microsoft’s HailStorm initiative has been described as everything from a weapon aimed at America Online to a
crucial component of the software giant’s move to a subscription-based business model. But how, exactly, will
HailStorm work, and where does Microsoft make money on the service?”

PCWorld: “LinuxWorld’s own version of the Weakest Link game show, The Golden Penguin Bowl, proves that knowing the
difference between TCPIP and CPIP as well as the breed of parrot in Monty Python’s Dead Parrot sketch can come in handy.

The event, featuring quiz questions accompanied by insults but not the dismissal of players, occurred at the LinuxWorld
conference and expo here this week.”