PC World reports that less than two weeks before its launch, Transmeta’s new GHz chip has hit its first snag. An unnamed major vendor has cancelled its order for the TM5800 chip, citing supply shortages, which Transmeta denies.

From an AP item (at CNET): “An irritated Fidel Castro on Thursday dismissed concerns about Cuban
cyberterrorism against the United States as “craziness,” saying his country doesn’t have
the technology to launch such attacks even if it wanted to.”

MSNBC: “House Majority leader Dick Armey
may seek U.S. Justice Department budget cuts to curb
the use of the FBI e-mail surveillance tool formerly
known as Carnivore, a spokesman said on Thursday. “If
necessary he would consider using Congress’s power of
the purse to pull the plug on Carnivore,” said the aide,
Richard Diamond.”

Topics this week include the latest release of Nadmin Studio (1.4), and an Everscreen announcement. Posted at Linux Weekly News.

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/
Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org

In terms of going through the code audit almost all the sound drivers still 
need fixing to lock against format changes during a read/write. Poll creating 
and starting a buffer as write does and also mmap during write, write during
an mmap.

2.4.5-ac14
o       Fix oops on command abort on aha152x            (me)
        | This so far is only a partial fix
o       Switch to unlazy swap cache free up             (Marcelo Tosatti)
o       Page launder changes                            (Rik van Riel)
o       Remove dead irda irlap compression code         (Dag Brattli)
o       Fix bug where init/main.c executes freed code   (Hans-Peter Nilsson)
o       Fix ramfs accounting. truncate/freepage hook    (Christoph Rohland)
o       Add MTWEOF ioctl to parallel tape               (Russ Ingram)
o       Add driver for CATC based USB ethernet          (Vojtech Pavlik)
o       Update cris architecture code                   (Bjorn Wesen)
o       Clean up reiserfs tail->full page convert       (Chris Mason)
o       Clean up lp init, fix lp= option handling       (Tim Waugh)
o       Don't panic on out of memory during ps/2 setup  (Andrey Panin)
o       Initialise vc_cons objects in full              (Richard Hirst)
o       Futher Configure.help resync                    (Eric Raymond)
o       Fix misdeclaration of xtime                     (Petr Vandrovec)
o       Add yet more sb variants                        (Andrey Panin)
o       Fix bogus VIA warning triggers (I hope)         (me)
o       Fix 3c509 symbols when building nonpnp          (Keith Owens)
o       Make pid on core dump configurable              (Ben LaHaise)

Slashdot: “Check out this posting by Amiga`s CTO on the AmigaOne Mailing list.
It includes some concept pictures of a GUI for the Amiga Digital Environment, which is being
targetted at AmigaDE enabled handheld devices like Sharp`s upcoming Zaurus PDA.”

Slashdot: “How many people run Linux as a desktop OS? How many servers run Linux? Is the Linux
server market share 8.6 percent or 24 percent or somewhere in between? Dan Kusnetzky is
a heavily quoted analyst at IDC who wrestles with questions like these for a living. This is
your chance to find out how analysts come up with all those numbers — and why analysts
seem to disagree with each other so often.”

ZDNet: “The Embedded Linux Corporation (ELC), has begun an initiative to boost its presence in
Europe after a successful meeting with many of the continent’s leading open source
players on Wednesday.”

ZDNet has commentary saying Linux really needs a bigger PR effort from more mainstream spokespeople.

The announcement’s at LWN.net. “This is the second BETA release for the upcoming Trustix Secure Linux 1.5
release. It has version 1.4.90, and is nicknamed “ADSL” (guess why :).

It is in serveral ways INCOMPATIBLE with 1.2, and you do not want to
just continue without knowing a little more of what is ahead.”