ZDNET.co.uk: “NEC, the second-largest Japanese server seller after Fujitsu, said Monday it is using AMD’s 1.33GHz Athlon chips — its fastest CPU so far — to power a special-purpose server “appliance” that will be able to send streams of video over the Internet. The rack-mountable system uses one server to encode video and audio information and two more servers to send the information out over the network.”

Wired: “The director of tech studies at the libertarian Cato Institute is calling for ‘splinternets,’ or parallel Internets that wouldn’t have to deal with nuisances such as government regulations.”

Augustus writes: LinuxHardware.org has just posted what may be the first 100% totally Linux head-to-head CPU review. In this review, both the Athlon and Pentium III is reviewed for stability, performance, value, and the ability to be overclocked. “As usual, the PC market keeps progressing and it’s been months since your last processor upgrade. You’ve been wondering where to go for that next speed boost that you’ve been saving up for. So where do you go from where you are? You have two companies to choose from for the biggest bang for your buck and each of those companies have two choices of processors. So AMD or Intel? If you’re budget minded, Duron or Celeron? If your going for pure power, Pentium III/4 or Athlon? The answers to your questions follow as we analyze where each company is at at the gigahertz mark. Who’s got the best processor for the gigahertz upgrade?””

Anonymous Reader writes: “ZZZ has a short report about the smallest combustion engine in the world developed in University of California. It is so small that the only way to make it is etching it on a silicon, like computer chips. The funniest thing is that the scientists are going to use a throng of these engines to power laptops, PDAs, cell phones and other portable electronic devices. The whole world it trying to stop the pollution and these guys develop a combustion engine, isn’t it ironic?”

Wired: “Organizers of the Linux in Africa conference in Johannesburg view the appearance by Linux legend Jon ‘Mad Dog’ Hall as a potential watershed moment for the open-source movement on the continent.”

LWN.net: “Turbolinux, Inc. announced
today the immediate worldwide availability of Turbolinux Server (TLS) 6.5.”

PCWorld: “AIX 5L comes with several new tools for installing and working with Linux applications. Users will now have access to new application programming interfaces and header files that let a variety of Linux software run on AIX with a relatively simple recompilation. IBM is also putting out an AIX Toolbox for Linux, which combines more than 200 tools and applications for uniting the two OSes.”

(Hamburg) The founding process of the Free Software Foundation Europe,
sister organization of the FSF, the world’s oldest and most prominent
Free Software organization, was finished yesterday. With a visit at
the notary in Hamburg, Germany, Georg C. F. Greve, coordinator and
President of the Free Software Foundation Europe, completed the final
step on Tuesday, April 24th.

"The FSF Europe has officially begun activities on March 10th, 2001,
but finishing the necessary formal steps for the founding took a
little longer because the core team is spread over four European
countries.", says Georg C. F. Greve. "The major hurdle to overcome has
been to create a legal structure that would allow us to be present in
every country despite the lack of harmonized laws for Europe-wide
organizations."

The Free Software Foundation Europe is structured like a wheel with a
hub in Germany and local organizations in the European countries.
Founding the "FSF Europe - Chapter Germany" has been finished along
with the central organization. The French chapter is to be finished
very soon.


About the FSF Europe:

The Free Software Foundation Europe is the sister organization of the
Free Software Foundation created 1984 by Richard M. Stallman in the
United States of America. 

Main purpose of the FSF Europe is to coordinate Free Software
initiatives throughout Europe, to provide a Free Software
competence-center for politicians and journalists and to provide
infrastructure for Free Software projects and especially the GNU
Project.

Further information about the FSF Europe can be found at 

      http://fsfeurope.org


Contact:
 Europe
   Georg C. F. Greve 
   Tel: +49-40-23809080
   Fax: +49-40-23809081
 France   
   Frederic Couchet  
   Tel: +33-660-688931
 Germany
   Bernhard Reiter 
   Tel: +49-541-33508-33
 Italy
   Alessandro Rubini 
   Tel: +39-0382-529.554 (o .424)
   Fax: +39-0382-529.424 
 Sweden  
   Jonas Öberg 
   Tel: +46-21-144831

Further press contact information is available at

      http://fsfeurope.org/press/

MSNBC tells us: “There is a security flaw in Microsoft WebDAV (distributed authoring and versioning) that affects Internet Information Services 5.0. Because of the flaw, IIS is vulnerable to a denial of service attack that would temporarily cause CPU time to go to 100 percent for the duration of the attack.”

Slashdot: “Following up on the depressing tale of ArsDigita and its takeover by nursery school miscreants, Philip Greenspun gives his take on the recent turn of events recently covered on Slashdot. He even provides a nice aD history in a nutshell for those of us who were vacationing on Uranus for the last several years.”