ZDNet reports on the increasing numbers of UNIX flavours available for the PowerPC platform, including A/UX, Linux, and BSD.

The Standard reports that Sony is recalling some mobile-phone handsets, at a cost of nearly $100,000,000.

ZDNet reports on the latest battle being fought by Linux and its associated community, in light of the propaganda by Microsoft against Open Source.

CNet reports that Apple is recalling the power brick used on a number of its laptops, due to an overheating problem which can result in fire.

Wired: “It turns out that Robert Mueller, President Bush’s pick to revive the FBI’s ailing image, has plenty of experience prosecuting computer crime.”

CNET: “MontaVista Software, a company selling Linux for non-PC computing products, signed up Toshiba and Ericsson as major new business partners but laid off 20 percent of its staff.”

From a press release at SAmag.com: Sys Admin, CMP Media LLC’s journal for UNIX
systems administrators, announced today the addition of Readable Publications’ The Perl Journal (TPJ).
Jon Orwant, President of Readable Publications, launched The Perl Journal in 1996. More recently, the
quarterly publication had been part of EarthWeb Inc. Earlier this year, EarthWeb divested itself of all editorial
products, and in April 2001 control of TPJ reverted to Readable Publications.

At LinuxPR: Easy Software Products today announced
the release of ESP Print Pro v4.1.9, a complete printing solution for UNIX®. The
product is based on the company’s Common UNIX Printing System technology
and supports Digital UNIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, and Solaris.

ESP Print Pro v4.1.9 is a bug fix release and includes no new printer drivers.

The diary is at aynik.com: “Linux Tag is an open source event for business and free software in Europe. The slogan for Linux
Tag is: where .com meets .org. Non-commercial and commercial people can meet each other
and exchange ideas among others. It was located in hall 5.0 from the Messe in Stuttgart.”

From LinuxPR: Easy Software Products today announced
the 3.0 release of the ESP Package Manager (“EPM”), a cross-platform
software distribution program for UNIX.

EPM v3.0 adds support for AIX, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD packages, a
new graphical setup program, a new packaging manual, and a new install
command replacement that builds list files.