Internetnews.com: “A Simple Inexpensive Mobile
Computer or Simputer stands to bring the IT revolution to rural India.

Running on three AAA batteries and an Intel chip, the Simputer will
boast a free Linux operating system, 32MB of RAM and 16MB of
Flash memory. At a cost of only $200, this simple device (which
resembles a hefty Palm) may well bring the e-revolution to India
where a scant 2 million PC’s are currently distributed between a
poverty stricken populace of nearly 1 billion.”

“EuroZope barbecue coming soon, how to sell Zope to management
types, Zope 2.4 beta 2 released, and CMF news and discussion
in this week’s ZWN.” Posted at LinuxProgramming.com.

A disturbing message from Kai-Uwe Stattler, posted at LinuxToday: ” have just received a dissuasion from an Adobe lawyer that the name
“KIllustrator” would violate Adobe’s trademark and I should pay 2500
euro. So, I have closed the website at the moment.”

“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.”