Patrick Mullen writes: “The Duke of URL has posted a review of the Soyo SY-K7ADA, an ALi MAGiK 1-based motherboard that utilizes DDR SDRAM. The review covers benchmarks (Q3A, Kernel Compilation, XHDBench), its features, overclocking, and much more.”

Wired: “Sun’s JavaSpace concept is like “a singles bar for clients and services,” and a startup hopes its new platform provides a perfect marriage.”

“The earlier articles touched on what Linux Operating System is all about. You know its scope, its advantages,
disadvantages, weaknesses and strongholds. In this article, we take a closer look at the Kernel modules–one of the two
modes that Linux operates in.” More at FreeOS.com.

Linux Weekly News: “Loki Software, Inc. announces that MindRover: The Europa Project for
Linux will ship on Wednesday, May 23.”

MSNBC.com: “For users who have password protected the
Compressed Folders feature in Windows Me and Microsoft
Plus! 98, be forewarned! Microsoft says that data compression
passwords can be recovered by a malicious attacker.”

Silicon.com: “This 31-year-old Finn is the father of the Linux OS and a
poster boy for the open source software movement. Yet he
remains an enigma. Here we share his thoughts on software, big
vendors, writing ‘Just For Fun’, and saunas. Consider this a
portal into Linus’ mind.”

PRNewswire: “LynuxWorks(TM), Inc. today announced availability of its BlueCat(TM) Linux for the new
Intel(R) Internet Exchange Architecture Software Developers Kit (Intel IXA SDK) 2.0 for the Intel(R) IXP1200 Network Processor family.”

Wired: “Richard Stallman has a simple message for the U.S. government about a proposed copyright treaty: Don’t even think about signing it.

Stallman, the bearded, irascible creator of GNU Emacs and a spokesman for the free software movement, showed up at a U.S. Copyright Office roundtable
on Tuesday to warn that the draft measure would imperil American programmers by encouraging frivolous software patents.”

ZDNET.co.uk: “IBM is launching the latest initiative to bring Linux into set-top boxes,
working with MontaVista Software to bring its Hard Hat Linux to the
PowerPC-based, single-chip Set-Top Box Controller.”

Dmitry writes: “The new version 3.1.13 of mnoGoSearch free Open Source search engine software is available from mnoGoSearch website at
http://www.mnogosearch.org. The new version includes various enhancements and fixes including HTTPS support, simplified configuration, all of the enhancements are listed in ChangeLog.”