In the latest edition of Debian Weekly News: “Debian Installer for NuBus PowerMacs” … “Autoconf 2.50 is out” … “What’s the proper way to package themes?” Full post at LWN.net.

LinuxDevices has this announcement: This week, Net2Phone launched a new service called
VoiceLine for broadband users (DSL/Cable) which is a
subscription plan, similar to what you get nowadays with
Cell Phones. (Up to now, the Net2Phone model has been
prepaid minutes). VoiceLine currently supports two devices:
the Aplio/RAVE Internet phone (which runs on Embedded
Linux); and Linksys EtherFast Routers.

Anonymous Reader writes, “check out http://www.linux-fever.com/
and
http://www.linux-fever.com/getlinux.htm.” The Linux-fever.com site is sponsoring a “Get Linux” banner designing campaign, with a Logitech Wingman Gamepad, a retail Box of Caldera OpenLinux eDesktop 2.4, the “Linux Complete” Book, and a year subscription to Linux Fever’s upcoming Online Magazine as the prizes.

From a press release posted at LinuxSecurity.com: Guardian Digital, the company that brings you LinuxSecurity.com, recently released
EnGarde Secure Linux. Engineered from the ground up, EnGarde incorporates intrusion
alert abilities, a complete suite of e-business applications using AllCommerce, mail and DNS
management for an entire organization, improved authentication and access control, strong
cryptography, and complete SSL secure Web-based administration capabilities.

Moshe Bar writes, “Hi there!

We have just released MOSiX 1.0.2 adapted to kernel 2.4.5. A potential bug situation on multi-media workstation was fixed and some other minor bugs.

Go get the source and installer, as usual, from www.mosix.org.

Kindly report any bugs to the MOSiX mailing list.

The MOSiX Team
Moshe Bar”

The humor site, Segfault tries to keep track of the RIAA’s lawsuits. Remember, this is humor. “So far, the RIAA has sued Napster, Aimster, Gnutella, Scour, Audiogalaxy, WinMX, iMesh,
FileNavigator, Hotline, MusicCity, KaZaa Media Desktop, Yaga, SongSpy, Jackalope Audio,
MP3.com, ComTry Music Downloader, Dogster, Napigator, Wrapster, Tripnosis, FileRogue,
Swaptor, FileFunnel, AudioLocator, Splooge, AlbumWrap, Audiofind, Wippit, Soundcrawler,
Plebio, Spotlight, OnShare File Manager, RiffShare, MP3 Fiend, Spinfrenzy Xchange,
MP3Exchanger, MP3 Voyeur, MP3Robot, MP3Fury, Planet,MP3Find, MediaShare,
Agent-MP3, most major Usenet groups, and the makers of WinAmp, Sonique, Windows
Media Player, UltraPlayer, AtomixMP3, WinPlay3, Yahoo Player, Mp3 2000, RealPlayer,
AllSound, MPFree, XingMP3, and FreeAmp for facilitating the distribution, listening, and
enjoyment of MP3 files.”

aicra writes, “Peter Junger has written an excellent article pertaining to the DeCSS case.
He is the law professor who was involved in the Code is Speech trial.
His article can be found at http://samsara.law.cwru.edu/dmca/qart.pdf.” (It’s in PDF.)

From The Register: “Microsoft’s cancelbots were racing after Richard Stallman even before he took the
stage in New York this morning to defend of free software’s cornerstone, the General
Public License. The Free Software Foundation had a new GPL FAQ to promote, but
journalists attending the event — and many who weren’t — were primed with
questions from the Beast with which to embarrass St Ignucius.”

CNet reports on IBM’s participation in two Japanese Linux projects, including its new partnership with NEC, Fujitsu and Hitachi and a new
Japanese branch of the Open-Source Development Lab. More from Reuters.

A ZDNet columnist argues that Eazel’s failure shouldn’t affect Linux’s chances on the desktop. Other file managers are available in Gnome and KDE, the columnist says.