Slackware, the distribution behind such sites as Kuro5hin.org, has released version 8.0 (thanks to Slashdot).

DebianPlanet: “Welcome to the woody freeze.

As previously proposed, the freeze will proceed in four phases: first policy will be frozen, followed by the base system, followed by standard installs, and concluding with the remainder of Debian.”

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.