Slashdot readers discuss the review by TheDukeofURL.org of the Linux distro for Macs.

From Canada Newswire: Empower Technologies Inc. announces the
release of the world’s first major operating system (O/S) upgrade for Palm
IIIx and IIIxe handhelds. Empower Technologies’ embedded Linux DA O/S DB v1.0
is faster, more powerful, and more robust than the original Palm O/S. Empower
Technologies becomes the first and only corporation within the consumer
electronics industry to replace the Palm O/S, providing Palm handheld users
and other PDA manufacturers with an alternative O/S.

Avatar writes: “Over the past few months, evil3D has gotten a lot of “WTF??” type questions when it comes to installing the NVIDIA drivers on Red Hat 7.1 with a non-Intel based motherboard. Subsequently, we have put together this HOWTO for installing the drivers. We will cover both Intel and non-Intel chipsets here, just so everyone can use the same HOWTO.”

LinuxPR: “IDG World Expo announced
today that exhibitors at the upcoming LinuxWorld Conference & Expo
are eligible to submit their new products and services into the
LinuxWorld Conference & Expo San Francisco Open Source Product
Excellence Award program.”

The Register: “Hynix, the world’s third-largest memory maker, will indeed cut back on DRAM
production, it admitted yesterday, and will shut down a fab in Oregon for six months
to help it weather the poor business conditions in the memory market.”

Silicon.com: “Hackers – after thieving vital design information – have severely hampered the, Renault-owned, Benetton Formula One team’s results for this season, according to the team’s tech crew.”

BangkokPost: “Protests against Microsoft’s new “product activation”-where
you have to call Microsoft and prove you are not a pirate before
you can use the software you bought, continued to grow and
Microsoft put out a FAQ on the subject; it explains that piracy
costs consumers money, but also explained that Microsoft
doesn’t have any intention of cutting prices or returning any of
that money if it wipes out piracy, it will invest more in producing
great products like, oh, Smart Tags; take a look at the FAQ
online at (http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/newsroom/
piracy/productactivationfaq.asp)Everyone else was doing it, so
chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices issued a warning that its
sales and earnings were plummeting to a fraction of previous
forecasts, hurt by pricing pressure in the personal
computer-chip and flash memory markets.”

The Register: “An audit on the FBI has revealed it is missing hundreds of laptop computers, many
of which are believed to have been stolen from under the nose of the agency.

Ashen-faced FBI officials have been forced to admit 184 computers are
unaccounted for and that three of these machines are believed have sensitive
material on their hard disks, and one is known to hold classified data. Of the missing
machines 13 are believed to have been nicked.”

LinuxPR: “Korean Air, Korea’s national flagship airline, and
IBM today announced that Korean Air has completed the first phase of
developing its core business applications running on Linux for the IBM
eServer.”

“IDG: “A group of hackers has delayed introducing its planned Web software that is meant to allow users to evade government censorship of the Internet.”