ZDNet reports that “Microsoft has deviated from its initial plans to have the operating system code-named Blackcomb succeed Windows XP, instead adding a new release to its product rollout strategy currently code-named Longhorn.”

Kelly McNeill writes “There’s a war in the handheld market. And while Palm and Microsoft duke it out over which operating system is superior, Linux is creeping onto the battlefield. With high-speed wireless data services about to hit the market, it is likely that if new Internet applications are developed for Linux first, the OS could gain an edge over its stodgy competitors.”

The Register has a story about Netcraft saying the U.S. White House has switched at least part of its Web operation to Linux.

From PR Newswire: The Linux Professional
Institute (LPI) today announced the appointment of Chuck Mead as President and
of James Lacey to the LPI Board of Directors.
Mead is the LPI’s second-ever President, taking over from Dan York.
One of the original co-founders of LPI in 1998, Mead has served in many
capacities within the organization, most recently as Director of
Information Technology.

From a Gartner Group column at CNet: “Sklyarov’s arrest represents the lengths to which content owners will go to protect their
copyrights — whether the material is in digital form or hard copy … Accordingly, they have become more aggressive in taking legal
action against those they deem copyright violators.

This approach largely represents a rearguard action. Even if authorities were to prosecute and
convict Sklyarov, the Russian company that employs him, ElcomSoft, would continue in business.
U.S. companies often have difficulty getting copyrights enforced in other countries, especially
developing nations such as Russia.”

From a column at InfoWorld.com: “Miguel de Icaza is well-known and well-respected in open-source circles as the author
and leader of Ximian Gnome, a Linux desktop environment. A flood of articles published
recently discussed how much de Icaza likes Microsoft’s .NET development environment and
how he now wants to duplicate much of it as an open-source project called Mono. Is anyone else beside me groaning about this?

CNet reports that
IBM has spread its Linux marketing push to its iSeries servers, a line designed for
medium-sized companies.

BSDToday reports that 61 packages were added to NetBSD in June, bringing the total to 2,246 packages in NetBSD.

Slashdot readers discuss an article from IT.mycareer.com saying that Australia is using Debian in a voting test case.

From Net-Security.org: ”

Due to insufficient length checking in the kernel, sendmsg(2) can be used by a
local user to cause a kernel trap, or an ‘out of space in kmem_map’ panic.

As of the release date of this advisory, NetBSD releases from 1.3 up to any later
release, are vulnerable.”