From Reuters: “Microprocessor design company Transmeta Corp said on
Wednesday its lead was widening over industry heavyweight Intel Corp
in technology for low-power chips used in ultralight notebook
computers.” More from Wired.com.

A column at LinuxPlanet talks about digital photography, CD burners and finally gets around to a Linux subject, the community and how it’s really a bunch of little communities tied together by an interest in Linux.

The Register follows up on the Gartner Group study that claims Linux has less than 9 percent of the server market. “Gartner analyst Jeffery Hewitt claims that this figure — which includes ‘white box’
shipments, but excludes server appliances such as Sun’s Cobalt range — is
dramatically lower than the 20 per cent plus cited by arch rivals IDC. Of that 8.6 per
cent, eight per cent is attributed to Red Hat and 0.6 per cent to other distros.”

On MozillaQuest Magazine (mozillaquest.com): MozillaQuest Magazine (mozillaquest.com) reports: “AOL-Time-Warner´s Netscape division placed its Netscape 6.1 Preview Release 1 (NS 6.1, PR1) browser-suite upgrade for the Linux, Macintosh, and Microsoft Windows platforms on its FTP servers overnight. Netscape 6.1 could be the make-or-break, do-or-die, and last gasp Netscape browser offering. (Download links and release notes information further down.)”

Patrick Mullen writes: “The Duke of URL has just posted its review of the Plextor PlexWriter 16/10/40A. The review covers the drive’s performance in audio extraction and CD recording, as well as its features and exactly how it fares at the fabled 16x writing speed.”

PRNewswire: “Wasabi Systems, the leading provider of
embedded BSD products and services, today announced completion of a port of
NetBSD to IBM’s PowerPC 405GP processor.”

IDG.net: “A New York judge late last week found MP3.com liable for copyright infringement in a lawsuit brought by the music publishing division of the Zomba Group.”

“The Register: “The UK government e-Envoy, he of the Microsoft-only Government portal, seems
to have got religion after all. In what unkind individuals might term one of the great
u-turns of our time, an open source approach to PKI currently looks very close to
being adopted for the second round of PKI interoperability trials, to be conducted by
the UK Communications-Electronics Security Group [CESG] later this year.”

Johannes Ullrich writes: DShield.org, the Distributed Intrusion Detection System, recently
published a special dynamic image in “Banner Ad” format. The banner
is dynamically generated and will turn bright red whenever a client
access it whose IP address is listed in DShield’s database of attackers. The purpose of this banner is to find some of the over 250,000 attackers listed in DShield’s database. Most of them are assumed to
be victims of Trojan horse software, which allows them to be abused
to attack others. DShield’s data is compiled from the submissions of volunteers.
Firewall logs are collected by the site and compiled into a number of
reports. The site is sponsored by the SANS Institute as part of the
Consensus Intrusion Database.“

AsiaBizTech: “At Home Japan Co., Ltd., IBM Japan Ltd.
and Matsushita Graphic Communication Systems Inc. said they will
jointly offer a system integration service for online video contents
distribution.”