Patrick Mullen writes: “The Duke of URL has posted its HowTo covering the Promise FastTrak series of cards
under Red Hat 7.1. Up until now users of these cards have been restricted to Red Hat 7.0
and 6.2. The review covers installation of Promise’s own drivers, along with the open source
Promise FastTrak drivers.”

“Richard Matthew Stallman to join a bunch of Indian free software enthusiasts and practitioners to officially launch the
Indian chapter of the Free Software Foundation.” More at FreeOS.com.

“Recompile the Linux kernel to add functionality and squeeze out the best from the system. And you don’t even have to be
a programmer to do this.” More at FreeOS.com.

The Register: “The world’s major DRAM makers are unlikely to follow fellow memory producer
Hynix and cut chip production.

So says at least one analyst watching the sector, according to a Korea Herald
report. Merritz Securities’ Choi Suck-po (we kid you not) reckons that rumours of
production cuts are false.”

CNET: “Even as Microsoft touts the open availability of the underpinnings of its .Net initiative,
open-source advocates are working to make sure .Net isn’t a Microsoft-only technology

Ximian, a Boston company that works on the Gnome user interface for Linux, is scheduled to
announce Monday a software project called “Mono” intended to compete against Microsoft.Net,
according to sources familiar with the plan.”

ComputerNewsDaily: “Half of the federal court system’s Internet use by
employees during a recent period was to download movies, music and
pornography, according to an internal memo and sources.

That amounted to a “gross misuse of government resources,” a
high-ranking court official wrote in a memo.

But when warned about that, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court’s judicial
council in San Francisco had a surprising response: It shut off the
system that had detected the improper downloading.”

ComputerNewsDaily: “Message boards have become increasingly flooded with postings
that go beyond the scathing critique, she said. The harassment ranges
from disclosing company trade secrets to revealing privileged
information to out-and-out cyberstalking of employers and employees,
according to Aftab.

Typically, the perpetrators are current or past employees who have
been involved in a dispute, gotten passed over for a raise or promotion,
or have received a bad evaluation, she said. Occasionally, it’s someone
with an emotional or mental problem who has no affiliation with the
company whatsoever.”

Newsbytes: “Red Hat India, the Indian unit of Linux software developer Red Hat Inc., has entered into an alliance with
the Electronics Research & Development Centre of India (ER&DCI) aimed at promoting the Linux operating
system in the government sector.”

Advogato: “The GNU GPL is the fundamental document for Free Software. Because of its importance, it is useful to document its history and evolution, for reference purposes. As an attempt I have created such a web page at http://www.free- soft.org/gpl_history/ .”

The Dot: “It’s finally official: KDE 2.2beta has been announced. “With this release, KDE is in a great
position to deliver a very strong KDE 2.2 release,” said Waldo Bastian, the KDE 2.2 release
coordinator. “With support for IMAP, the totally new printing framework and improved proxy
support, KDE 2.2 will be an excellent foundation for the desktop needs of many businesses.”