MSNBC: “The upcoming launch of the two virtual jukeboxes,
MusicNet and pressplay, by the major record labels is
undoubtedly a big deal for the music industry as it inches toward
digital distribution of songs. Yet few are expecting either one to
be an overnight success.”

LinuxFocus: “In a previous article, I said the Opera web browser hasn’t convinced me yet. The new 5.0 version for Linux
being an improvement, I changed my mind a bit. Here is a small review of one of the lightest web browser
available for Linux. You can get a free copy of Opera 5.0 from http://www.opera.com.”

DebianPlanet: “I received a very nice Dell Inspiron laptop for my 16th birthday, yep thats how old I
am.(I’ve been using Linux for about three years down and Debian GNU/Linux for
about one and a-half. This article describes the steps needed to get Debian
GNU/Linux working on such a system. I deliberately chose this particular notebook
system as there were many positive reports at linux-laptop.net. Most importantly a
large amount of the hardware on the system works within GNU/Linux.”

Kelly McNeill of OSOpinion writes: “Several comebacks ago, Apple developed a wonderful easy to use consumer codeing enviornment called Hypercard. Sadly, Apple decided this program was too heavy to carry, and removed it for its product line. If Apple has no interest in pulling HyperCard out of obscurity, then why not make it an open-source project?”

PCWorld: “As expected, on Monday Transmeta is launching two Crusoe processors–including an 800-MHz chip–manufactured using its
new 0.13 micron technology.”

The Dot: “LinuxTag 2001 is the largest Linux and Open Source exhibition in Europe. Last year over
17,000 visitors and 100 exhibitors attended the event. This year’s event will be hosted in
Stuttgart, Germany from July 5 through July 8. The KDE Team will have a large presence
there, including several presentations and workshops, a large number of KDE developers, and of course the
KDE mascot Konqi.”

LinuxSecurity: “This week, the most interesting articles include “Security: Firewalls; IPtables and Rules,” “A Readonly
filesystem on Bootable CD,” and “Secure FTP via SSH Tunnel.” Also this week, there are several articles
discussing the governments state of security. These articles can be found in the general section of this
newsletter.”

“In his introductory column Dr. Bradford introduced measurement tools and plans for future performance investigations on Linux and
Windows 2000. His focus this month is on a simple operation, memory to memory copy, and how long it takes to move bytes around in
memory.” More at IBM’s Developer Works.

AsiaBizTech: “An IBM official said: “The Open Source Community shall never be
neglected. We have no intention to complain about the latest version of
Linux, ‘Linux 2.4 Kernel,’ much less to have a great impact on the next
version ‘Linux Kernel 2.5.’ Results of the joint development by the four
shall be reported to the Open Source Community without exception, and
we will leave the Community entirely to decide if the reported technology
should be adopted.”

MozillaQuest Magazine reports: “With more than 280 bugs still targeted to it, the upcoming Mozilla Milestone 0.9.2 edition was branched overnight from the main development-tree trunk — on schedule. That´s an unusually large bug count for a newly branched release candidate… Mozilla 0.9.2 at its branching has some ten times the bugs that Mozilla 0.9.1 had at its branching… Mozilla 0.9.2 is scheduled for release on 25 June 2001.”