Anonymous Reader writes: “Last July Philips was looking for beta testers for an MP3 boombox they had developed. Now Philips is looking for 50 individuals to test another MP3 product, the Expanium eXp401 8cm MP3-CD player, a player that uses the smaller 8cm discs over the standard 12cm CD. There is a link to apply to test the unit.

http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2001/philipstes t2.html“

CNET: “Hewlett-Packard said Tuesday it would start cutting staff at its Southeast Asian
headquarters in Singapore this week, a company spokeswoman said.

Cecilia Pang, HP’s Asian communications director, told Dow Jones Newswires the U.S.-based
company would lay off staff this week but she didn’t say how many people would lose their jobs or
from which department.”

ZDNET: “The chipmaker announced a 1.1GHz Athlon 4 and a 900MHz Duron–both for notebook PCs–and
said Compaq Computer will offer the new mobile chips in its Presario 1200 line. AMD also
announced its intent to ship a 1GHz desktop Duron later this quarter.

AMD’s newest Athlon 4 represents a 100MHz jump in speed from the first chip in that series,
introduced in May at up to 1GHz. A 1.2GHz Athlon 4 is expected in the fourth quarter.”

kazekiri writes: “
VA Linux Japan started “OSDN Japan”.
It is one part of OSDN’s internationalization, and new
central Open Source site in Japan.
OSDN-J press release
is here.
This PR includes endorsement comments of Intel Japan, IBM Japan,
NEC, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard Japan, Compaq, NTT-comware, OKI,
ITOCHU TECHNO-SCIENCE, IDG Japan, TOSHIBA Engineering, Miracle Linux,
TUNEBiZ.Net, Japan UNIX Society and Japan Linux Association.
OSDN Japan is supported by splendid supporters.” (NewsForge is part of OSDN.)

LWN: “We have lots of information for you on the Level 2 Beta exam, (we
need
to get Level 2 published as soon as possible – so please consider
taking this extended L2 beta exam).”

Standard changelog information included.

Linux 2.4.8-ac8
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 01:45:43 +0100
From: Alan Cox 
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org


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

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

2.4.8-ac8
o        Fix double mount hang on scsi cdrom, i2o or lvm         (Al Viro)
o        Fix oops in msdos/umsdos                        (OGAWA Hirofumi)
o        Fix qnxfs hang                                  (Serguei Tzukanov)
o        Add missing Alpha ksyms                                 (Marc Zyngier)
o        USB oops fixes                                  (Pete Zaitcev)
o        Apply same fix to kaweth                        (me)
o        Fix off by one in pcigart                       (Andreas Schwab)
o        Fix dasd leak                                   (Al Viro)
o        page reactivate correction                      (Rik van Riel)
o        Add the 104K to the byteswapped minutes bug     (Daniel Caujolle-Bert)
         list
o        Missing USB config items                        (Mike Castle)
o        Fix i2o systab send id order                    (Klaus Beyer)
o        VMA merging fixups                              (Ben LaHaise)
o        Update ntfs                                     (Anton Altaparmakov)
o        Speed up ext2 readdir/stat                      (Ted Tso)
o        Comment/docbook fixups                          (Dave Jones)
o        Add missing netif_wake_queue calls to USB       (Herbert Xu)
         network drivers
o        Fix cramfs to use kmap                          (Herbert Xu)
o        Fix NFS client atomic_dec_and_lock symbol       (Trond Myklebust)
o        Make wake_up_interrutible_sync usable in        (Jeremy Elson)
         modules
o        Update PPC for kbd_rate support                         (Paul Mackerras)
o        Next block of Configure.help tidying    (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o        Next block of superblock cleanup                (Al Viro)
o        Update hp scanner driver for USB                (Oliver Neukum)
o        Clean up ibm partition code                     (Al Viro)

Yahoo: “Faced with a dearth of vendors designing e-business software
for Linux, Red Hat this week will tackle the
problem itself when it begins offering an open-source
e-commerce platform it acquired earlier this year.”

Anonymous Reader writes: “PHP-Nuke, the most popular Web Portal System over the world announced the new version 5.2 today with a lot of bug fixes and many new features to enhance the system.
Also, as an important note, PHP-Nuke and NukeAddon joined forces to give to the world a much better system than it is right now with a lot of Themes and Addons. With this announce, PHP-Nuke will gain much more popularity and a very professional development team leaded by Francisco Burzi (PHP-Nuke) and Richard Tirtadji (NukeAddon). Of course, a very good step forward that will give us their results soon.

PHP-Nuke is written in PHP and requires a Web Server (Apache) and MySQL. The best of all is that PHP-Nuke is 100% released under the GPL license!

Download it Now!”

Anonymous Reader writes: “A new Aberdeen Group report says The development of Linux is moving faster than any other commercial operating system to date — so fast, in fact, that it will leapfrog Windows to replace UNIX on the high end within the next seven or eight years. Full Report (150k pdf)”

Linux Weekly News is carrying an email from the Debian project about the addition of a wide range of language-based Debian mailing lists.