“Linus Torvalds is the creator of the Linux operating system. Dr. Moira Gunn is a SiliconValley.com
columnist and the host of Public Radio’s “Tech Nation.” This is the first of a two-part interview that
was originally broadcast on Tech Nation. In this installment, Torvalds and Gunn discuss the beginnings
of Linux and the nature of open source.” SiliconValley.com.

Zack Brown and Adam Buchbinder post the latest summary of traffic and topcis on the linux-kernel mailing list. Hot topics this week: “Status of VLAN support”, “Gearing up for 2.5”, and “Linus estimates two weeks before 2.5.0”.

Computerwire: “The industry’s first specification for a generic Linux build is facing an immediate challenge just days after a consortium
of open source-friendly vendors finally published the delayed Linux Standard Base (LSB), designed for application
portability. However, at least one leading Linux distribution – Red Hat – does not conform to LSB 1.0. Furthermore, it is unclear
whether Research Triangle Park, North Carolina-based Red Hat Inc will – or should – conform to LSB as its Linux
distribution effectively becomes a de-facto standard through its growing customer base.”

Linux Gazette explains journaling filesystems for Linux, what they do, how they work, and how to install a few popular ones, including ReiserFS and and XFS.

AP (on CNET) reports: “Federal authorities have accused an Albuquerque teenager of
hacking into a NASA computer at the Ames Research Center in Northern California.

Jason Schwab, 18, has been charged with computer abuse and conspiracy to commit computer
abuse, according to documents filed in Children’s Court in Bernalillo County.”

The Register: “Sun Microsystems UK’s quick-witted marketing bunnies, have booked some text ads
with FT.com’s Information Technology email newsletter to exploit confusion over the
Compaq’s decision to sell Alpha to Intel and to adopt the Itanium as its server platform.”

The Register: “Sun Microsystems has discovered a flaw in its Solaris operating system which,
under rare circumstances, could result in the silent corruption of data stored on its
enterprise servers.

The bug came to light when Sun’s development engineers reviewed the code used
to implement dynamic reconfiguration in the process of developing the feature,
which allows boards to be swapped out of machines without having to shut down
systems.”

The Industry Standard reports it, we’re just pointing in their direction: “Can Microsoft rescue the technology economy?
Some savvy investors think so. The theory is that
the introduction of Windows XP on Oct. 25 will be
met with a surge of related personal computer
sales, first to businesses and later to consumers.
To take full advantage of XP, the thinking goes,
will require not just an upgrade but also new
hardware.

If the theory is right – and you certainly wouldn’t
know it from the recent news out of the PC
industry, where demand has been sinking and
prices sliding – then XP could also boost a range
of related companies.”

eWEEK reviews version 2.08 of the Linux Terminal Server Project, calling it “a stable
open-source offering that converts virtually all major
distributions of Linux into an X Window terminal server for
thin clients.”

DebianPlanet explains a recent outage: “We experianced some offtime as a result of the slashdotting we receive following the
article on Woody’s freeze. Our generous sponsors uklinux.net, temporarily suspended
our account, when the load on the server became excessive, the problems were
worsened by the poor PHP-Nuke code, which lead to the MySQL server overloading
and leading to a load on the server of approximately 50 at certain times. Because the
server is a shared resource running essential services for uklinux.net (mail etc) they
took the wise decision to drop the site.” All is well, now.