MSNBC has an item on the latest fad to sweep the Internet provider industry: Prepaid service. Working somewhat like prepaid long-distance telephone cards, prepaid Net access cards offer credit-challenged users a way to access the Internet. A few startups are sweet on the idea, but analysts say the target market might barely exist.

LinuxPR: “Lineo, Inc., a leading innovator in
embedded systems, real-time and high availability solutions, today announced
the availability of the uClinux ARM7TDMI development kit. The uClinux
ARM7TDMI development kit provides developers with the necessary tools,
hardware and software for ARM embedded development. The ARM7TDMI
processor core, in combination with the powerful uClinux operating system,
provides developers with a convenient, low-cost embedded environment for smart
hand-held devices, industrial control, home automation, digital signal processing
and more.”

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.