Reports from the USENIX conference have been posted about on Slashdot.

The AbiWord Weekly News #50 has been released. “Printing on UNIX has been improved this week and there’s been fixed quite a few crashers and other (less critical) bugs. Still on the road to 0.9.0 – no deadline given, no deadline missed 🙂 “

DebianPlanet: “The Debian security term do a great job patching up the problems which come up. However, for those not on the announce lists you might miss some important updates.”

In a change from a previously announced policy, Sun has changed its policy again regarding its Solaris source code, according to an item on Slashdot.

As reported on Slashdot, the Linux Standards Base v 1.0 has been released. Hopefully we’ll start to see “LSB compliant” rather than “RedHat compliant” in software marketted at towards the Linux community.

KDE.News brings us compilation information about KDE2, specifically which OSes/distributions it compiles on, and what caveats there are.

The Register: “Broadband users are to be given greater choice over which modem they use in the UK with the introduction of a `wires-only` version of ADSL from BT Wholesale. Tom Saville, broadband marketing manager at BT Wholesale, claims a wires-only ADSL connection by BT would reduce the overall cost to customers of installing broadband.”

ZDNet reports that Dell Computer, the largest PC manufacturer, and the only one to still use exclusively Intel processors, may be asking its customers if they would prefer AMD-based systems.

The BBC reports that the most detailed study of the galaxies beyond our own ever made is about to be released. The study maps out galaxies in what appear to be waves, possibly originating with the so-called ‘Big Bang’.

The Dallas Morning News reports that Sante Fe police in the American state of New Mexico have introduced a ban on mobile phones behind the wheel, following in the footsteps of New York state, which also banned the practice, widely considered unsafe.