LinuxPR: “The first output management solution to support Linux on IBM’s new S/390 eServer
zSeries is to be launched by Macro 4, a leading independent developer of
information delivery and systems management solutions. Users of Macro 4’s SAP
certified output management solution, will now have the e-business mainframe
technology benefits of space, energy and cost savings coupled with the
assurance of dependable output across a distributed network.”

From CBC: “A sentencing hearing is ongoing for
16-year-old Mafiaboy – the computer hacker who
launched denial of service attacks on several prominent
Web sites last year.

Wednesday, the court heard from witnesses who said
the youth’s intent could only have been to bring down
the sites. The defence had argued Mafiaboy only
wanted to test the security of the sites.”

In the latest edition: Discussions range from Flash support for Konqueror/Embedded to Avery Label templates for KWord.

From a press release at LinuxPR: “LinuxFund.org has introduced its new Linux
User Group (LUG) project that supports open source projects while allowing the
LUGs to earn extra revenue. The project allows LUGs to make money by selling
the LinuxFund.org MBNA MasterCard to its members. A group can earn $30 per
approved application made by its members.”

LinuxPR: “LinuxCertified.com, a leading provider of Linux training, will offer its next weekend
system administration bootcamp on July 14 – 15, 2001 in San Francisco bay area
(south bay). This workshop is designed for busy information technology
professionals and is designed to cover the most important Linux administration
areas.”

LinuxSecurity.com posts a helpful HOWTO for “configuring, running, and maintaining Postfix on EnGarde Secure Linux.” Document is four HTML pages in length, or available in one long printer friendly version.

David Mele writes “Great Bridge, which distributes, promotes and supports the PostgreSQL open source database, has been named to FORTUNE Magazine’s “25 Coolest US and Global Companies.””
Here’s what Fortune had to say:

“Great Bridge
HQ: Norfolk, Va.
Address: www.greatbridge.com

Great Bridge is on a quixotic quest with its product: an open-source database. The company hopes PostgreSQL can be as successful as Linux, the open-source operating system that was developed and is maintained by volunteers, and remains a pain in Microsoft’s side. To succeed, founder Frank Batten Jr. must woo users from both Oracle’s dominant industrial-strength database and Microsoft’s SQL Server, the top choice for more mundane information storage. He is undaunted: “If you think of open source as a rising flood, our goal is to bury most of the Oracle mountain. But the reality is that the Microsoft foothills will get flooded first.” Great Bridge, of Norfolk, Va., doesn’t actually sell PostgreSQL–it helps the community of developers who build it and sells support services for users. This is Batten’s second anti-Gates foray: He was the first investor in Linux champion Red Hat Software and remains its largest individual shareholder.”

Transmeta’s low-power Crusoe chips are going to get a speed boost late this month, when the company release a 1GHz version of its processor on June 26. Er, sort of: Transmeta CTO Dave Ditzel said the new processors will operate between 600MHz and 1GHz; The Register helpfully reminds readers that the chipmaker has been promising OEMs that it would deliver a 1GHz processor since last year.

“When considering the recent series of vicious attacks on the Linux community from Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer, Craig
Mundie, Jim Allchin and Bill Gates, and now an analysis study showing results of a dubious nature, one could suspect that
Gartner’s involvement with Microsoft allowed for miscalculation and distortion of the data in an effort to discredit
Linux’s continued growth.” From osOpinion.

Linux Journal: “Freenet isn’t just a file-sharing network designed to resist censorship of all kinds. For the slightly crazed among us, it’s actually a platform for writing
decentralized, anonymous, secure applications. For those that think of Freenet as another Napster, this seems more than a little insane. But for those that think of
Freenet as another WWW, this seems insane but neat. Some of the individuals in the latter category have come together in the EOF (Everything Over Freenet)
project to port all of the interesting Internet protocols to work on top of Freenet.”