The subscription model has been in the works for awhile, but Wired.com reports that New Napster CEO Konrad Hilbers promised the embattled file-swapping service would start
offering subscriptions later this year.

CanadaComputes has the review. “Mandrake 8.0 is as close to a flawless Linux distribution as you can get and … as far as I’m concerned, is now the benchmark against
which other distributions will be measured.”

CNet reports that
Intel, “one of the first mainstream companies to endorse the Linux operating system,” will
release programming tools Thursday to make Linux programs run better on its chips.

The chipmaker will announce compilers that translate Linux programs written in C++ or
Fortran languages into commands an Intel Pentium 4 or Itanium chip can understand.

University of Minnesota Fibre Channel Research Group writes, “It is my pleasure to announce the release of SANTK version 2.2. Version 2.2 now has device layering, allowing the user to toggle the visibility of devices by their type. SANTK 2.2 allows the use of the SAN description, Rack Mount, and scalability tools while in the Manual Builder. The Manual Builder now also supports switch designation, enabling the user to designate switches as target only or initiator only. Finally, the speed of the fabric verification has been greatly increased. SANTK Version 2.2 puts many new tools at the fingertips of the user while still making great use of the tools from every previous version. Please visit www.borg.umn.edu/fc/SANTK and download a copy of SANTK 2.2. As always, SANTK is free, open source, and developed in Java.”

Enjoy,
Fibre Channel Group.

Matt Jezorek writes, “Next-generation version of Blue Linux is being geared toward
the education system. Stuffed with Point and Click educational
programing based for ages 5+

Blue Linux Announced today that they will be working toward
a Blue Linux Educational version that will be based on reaching
out to the Educational Community. Blue Linux Founder Matt Jezorek
says, “We hope that we can help cut the cost of running the school
systems and keeping up with licensing so that learning can once
again become the major part of todays schools”.

With many school systems running over budget and a shortage of teachers,
The Blue Linux Group thinks they can provide a great alternative to
the systems that are currently running in school systems now. Blue Linux
EDU will be packed with various educational games and other programs that
will easily be identified to by the children in the elementry schools.

With the cost of lisensing lower school systems can spend more on
the teachers they need in order to keep the Teacher Student ratio
at an acceptable rate.

For more information Contact:
Matt Jezorek
matt@bluelinux.org
http://www.bluelinux.org

Paulo Henrique Caruso writes, “Microsoft’s Shared Source will be available in Brazilian Universities. The announcement, made during an audience between Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer and Brazilian president Fernando Cardoso, have brought about a bunch of protests from Brazilian Linux Community. See the complete story at OLinux.”

BSDatWork.com has the review: “Anti-virus software for FreeBSD is not a common thought to most FreeBSD
administrators. However, if you’re like me, most of my networks are
Windows 2000/NT on the workstations, and FreeBSD on the servers. This
means that the average user can download all kinds of unhealthy files and
contaminate the Windows workstations.”

Posted at LWN.net: “This is to announce the release of Trustix Secure Linux version 1.5,
nicknamed “MiddleWhere”.

Trustix Secure Linux is Trustix’ own open source Linux server distribution
with strong emphasis on security, performance and stability.

We release this version mainly to provide a number of features requested
by our users.”

LinuxDevices.com has an annoucement on the launch oe Linux4.TV, a “new website
dedicated to the promotion and support of open source
projects and application program interfaces (APIs) for
Linux-based interactive TVs and next-generation digital
set-top boxes (STBs).”

Reuters has a re-write of an EFF press release saying that Dmitry Sklyarov, the 26-year-old Russian software programmer “at the center of an international
controversy over a new U.S. digital copyright law” has thanked supporters around the
world for protesting his arrest.