ZDNet has an article saying Red Hat is planning an Open Source operating system for next-generation mobile phones, although most major manufacueres have committed to the Symbian OS.

CNet reports that video-compression provider On2 Technologies will release an Open Source
version of its video-compression technology, or codec.

From BusinessWire.com: The Khronos Group, a consortium of digital media and graphics industry leaders consisting of Promoting Members 3Dlabs, ATI, Discreet, a division of Autodesk, Inc., Evans & Sutherland, Intel, NVIDIA, SGI and Sun Microsystems Inc., today announced that the OpenML 1.0 specification has been unanimously ratified and is now publicly available.
OpenML, a software environment that is complementary to the peer OpenGL API, enables digital content authoring application developers
to easily integrate video, audio and graphics capabilities into their application suites, and makes these applications portable over multiple
operating systems, CPU architectures and add-in hardware devices.

From BusinessWire.com: Silicon Integration Initiative Inc. (“Si2”), the leading open-source EDA
standards consortium, announced today the formation of the LEF/DEF (Library Exchange Format/Design Exchange Format) Governing
Board, charged with responsibility for product change management in this OpenEDA.org open source community.
The governing board has the responsibility of reviewing and approving all future releases to LEF/DEF. The board will meet regularly to
review contributions to LEF/DEF, and is now accepting submissions from the open source community.

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/. Intermediate diffs are available from
http://www.bzimage.org.

2.4.7-ac9
o Print warnings about buggy 440GX $PIR tables (Arjan van de Ven)
o Update ARM softirq code (Russell King)
o Compaq FC controller update (Charles White)
o Update ARM integrator platform (Russell King)
o Miscellaneous ARM fixes (Russell King)
o ARM io function updates (Russell King)
o Remove duplicate Configure.help items (Steven Cole)
o Update ARM shark platform (Russell King)
o ARM anakin platform (Russell King)
o Allow swap
o Set page format bit for scsi-2 tape (Kai Makisara)
o Fix compile with shmfs disabled (Christoph Rohland)
o RME Hamerfall audio driver (Guenter Geiger)
o Further UML fixes (Jeff Dike)
o Syncppp fix (Bob Dunlop)
o Farsync update (Bob Dunlop)
o UML network driver update (Jeff Dike)
o Revert aic7xxx makefile changes (Keith Owens)
o DaveJ has received enough Rise cpu reports (Dave Jones)
o Clean up building without procfs (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o Riscom compile fix (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)

2.4.7-ac8
o Kill accidental bit of S/390 merge I meant
to skip (hotplug should be working again now (Bill Nottingham)
o Fix host_info_lock namespace on ieee1394 (Keith Owens)
o Fix duplicate rio serial init (Keith Owens)
o Fix dead init_zoran_cards symbol (Keith Owens)
o Don’t define EXPORT_SYMTAB in cmpci (Keith Owens)
o Don’t define EXPORT_SYMTABL in sisfb (Keith Owens)
o Fix warnings in ess_solo1 (me)
o Fix deadlock in moxa mxser driver (Christophe Barbé)
o First of many needed devfs race fixes (Al Viro)
o Windows 2000 vfat name mapping fix (Wolfram Pienkoss)
o Clean up ubd, CONFIG_IOMEM->CONFIG_MAPPER (Jeff Dike)
o Fix a UML crash, make uml devices pluggable (Jeff Dike)
o Use page cache in hostfs, fix UML stat64 bits (Jeff Dike)
o Complete UML ppc support merge (Chris Emerson)
o Complete UML Configure.help (Bill Stearns)
o Add rep nop so the poor old Pentium IV doesnt
go thermal slowdown every long mdelay (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix various invalid Config script items (Christoph Hellwig)
o SYS5fs BSD style symlink support (SCO etc)
(Christoph Hellwig)
o Fix PnPBIOS reporting on io v mem (Andrey Panin)
o Fix atyfb compilation problems with vaio bits (Keith Owens)
o Make HP support in AMI Megaraid run time (Michael Johnson)
o Fix an ext3 buffer credit accounting bug (Andrew Morton)
o Add hardware volume control support to ALi (Matt Wu)
o Clean up the above a little for non ALi, fix
rmmod crash (me)
o Adaptec scsi update (6.2.1)
(Justin Gibbs)
| + gcc 3.0 fixes
o Handle broken PIV SMP tables (Maciej Rozycki)
o Switch to static inline on ARM subtree (Russell King)
o SHMfs updates, race fix (Christoph Rohland)

CNet is among the first to report that Microsoft is appealing its antitrust case to the U.S. Supreme Court. “The action could make it more difficult for the Justice Department and 18 states to seek an
injunction against Windows XP. The upgrade to Microsoft’s ubiquitous operating system is
scheduled to be released in late October.” More from The Associated Press via Wired.com.

From Reuters (via MSNBC.com): “The music industry is escalating its
crusade against Napster-style music swapping with a plan to
place stringent controls on compact discs -including, perhaps,
the one you bought last week.”

“Only in 2.4.8pre5aa2: 00_sync_old_buffers-3. Merged Jens’s fix for avoiding kupdate to be killed.”

2.4.8pre5aa2
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 23:25:19 +0200
From: Andrea Arcangeli 
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org


Only in 2.4.8pre5aa2: 00_sync_old_buffers-3

         Merged Jens's fix for avoiding kupdate to be killed.

ULR:

         ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.8pre5aa2/
         ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.8pre5aa2.bz2

Andrea

We are pleased to announce that our speaker for the August 8, 2001
GNUbies
meeting will be David Sugar. David Sugar is known throughout the GNU
community for his work on Bayonne, Common C++ and now for having been
appointed to head up the DotGNU project.

He has headed the GNU/Linux telephony server project, Bayonne, since
its
inception and has written most of its code. One of the topics he will
be
discussing at our meeting will be GNU/Linux telephony.

More recently he has drawn attention since he was appointed the head of
the
DotGNU project, which will, among other things, aim to provide a secure
decentralized approach to Authentication/Authorization for “web
services”,
while aiming for greater user control over information provided. This
will
help to prevent a single company from gaining control of the means for
accessing resources on the net. DotGNU will be the second topic he
will
deal with in his presentation entitled “GNU/Linux telephony and DotGNU
for
you”.

As always, the meeting will be free and open to the public.

The details are:

Date: Wednesday, August 8, 2001
Time: 6:30 – 7:00 General Q&A;
7:00 David Sugar

Title: GNU/Linux Telephony and DotGNU for You.
Location: The IBM Building
590 Madison Ave.
(57th Street and Madison Ave.)
New York City, N.Y.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Lyn
GNUbies
The GNU/Linux/Free OS Beginners’ Group

The following are some relevant links (more can be found on our website
http://www.gnubies.org).

What is Bayonne?
http://www.gnu.org/software/bayonne/whatis.html

The DotGNU Project
http://dotgnu.org/

FreeDevelopers: DotGNU: .GNU to Face Down .NET
http://news.linuxprogramming.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-07-12-001-06-LT

Slashdot readers discuss a letter that Dolby Laboratories sent to the NetBSD project, demanding that links to the Open Source ac3dec package be removed.