It’s at Abisource.com. Among the items: “This week the developer mailing list has been dominated by the discussions of what should be included in the AbiWord
1.0 release. It is still undecided, but there is a trend towards a 1.0 release within the next four months, without support for
proper tables.”

Slashdot readers comment on an interview by InfoLinux with Hans Reiser about the future of the utility.

A columnist at LinuxPlanet responds to another columnist there who said Linux on the desktop is dead. “I disagree with Kevin not in his view that things look bad for Linux as a desktop operating system but in his view
that the cause is lost. I don’t think it need be. Indeed, the potential for Linux to become a major player on the
desktop has never been better.”

ZDNet reports that world’s largest PC maker, Dell, doesn’t see a market for Linux on the desktop, although it does see potential for graphics workstations. “Instead of the mass market, the biggest target for Linux at the moment is the high-end graphics
workstations used by engineers and industrial designers, according to Dell. So far Linux hasn’t
made much progress there because of lack of support for graphics cards.”

Patrick Mullen writes, “The Duke of URL has posted its 10th iteration of its Linux Buyer’s Guide. The guide covers 4 systems (high end, SMP, mid range, low end) as well as a set of Linux-compatible peripherals and information on many components Linux compatibility.”

An anonymous reader writes: “Two years ago, French startup Future Sound Technologies (FST) set about creating “the
ultimate music appliance” for today’s wired music enthusiasts. Founders Martin Guerin
and Eric Morisset envisioned a device that would make it easy for people to fully enjoy
their favorite online and downloaded titles anytime, anywhere — without the hassles of
being tethered to a PC. At the recent MIDEM 2001 global music trade show in Cannes,
France, FST unveiled the outcome of the company’s two-year quest: the “Hi-Muse”. The Hi-Muse is an innovative Linux-based entertainment gadget that offers a combination
of both standalone and Internet-based music and sound functions. Basically, you can use
the Hi-Muse to record, play, and store your music from CDs and other sources; it also
provides a simple means by which you can locate, listen to, and store music from
Internet radio stations, music portals, and other online sources — without the use of a PC. More at LinuxDevices.com.“

ZDNET: “There’s no delicate way of
putting it: I would guess that
well over half of the spam I
get is either from people
selling illegal
medications–some of which
might give me an
erection–or selling online
pictures which would kill it
stone dead even if I had one.”

Wired: “The National Science Foundation will award scholarship money to computer security students who take government jobs upon graduation. Reactions are mixed.”

The Register: “The fortunes of Wall Street’s Linux poster children, Red Hat and VA Linux Systems,
continue to diverge. While Red Hat boasted of bullish figures, VA yesterday
reported a drop in sales of 41 per cent on last year’s equivalent period.” Newsforge is a part of OSDN, a VA Linux subsidiary.

Wired: “The White House’s official site suffers a denial-of-service attack — not to mention attacks from critics for its paucity of content and design.”