Wired.com has more on the Linux kernel 2.5 summit. Among the proposals: A “plan to lock-in proposed changes and institute a
drop-deadline or ‘kernel freeze’ date was discussed. A freeze date would enable all programmers to know
when their bits of the code needed to be submitted.”

The information is at linuxdoc.org. There’s a new document: Linuxdoc Reference at
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linuxdoc-Reference.html.
Version 1.1. This article is intended to be a reference for the SGML document type definition linuxdoc.

Several sites are reporting on today’s hearing on digital musicThe Associated Press reports that Napster asked Congress on Tuesday to force
publishers to offer their “catalogues” online. (Hey, the story’s on the CBC site.) “Legislators appeared to be starstruck by Henley and Morissette, who said artists’ concerns have been
ignored during the past year’s legal battles between recording labels and Internet companies.” ABC News also reports on Henley’s and Morissette’s support of Napster.

From BusinessWire: Great Bridge LLC today made open source databases more viable for larger businesses by releasing a pre-packaged PostgreSQL database on
Sun Microsystems’ popular Solaris operating system and engineering-level technical support for application developers deploying PostgreSQL on
Solaris. The “PgSol” packages, now in beta testing and freely available at www.greatbridge.org/project/pgsol, make it easy for Solaris-based
enterprises to take advantage of the most powerful open source database available.

It’s at seul.org and includes this information: “The K-12Linux Project has released a turn-key terminal server distribution based on RH7 and the LTSP packages. This
should be useful in making installing Linux in schools significantly easier.”

developer.kde.org has the announcement along with this information: The 1.1 release will come with major improvements in the following areas: many features added to KSpread and KPresenter;
improve speed and usability of KIllustrator;
rewrite of KWord using Qt’s richtext engine
much improved mathematical formula support;
addition of Kivio (Flowcharting program);
improvements to the filters, especially the MSOffice import filters …

From LinuxPR: NeTraverse Inc., the leader in bridging
Windows to Linux, today announced the release of Win4Lin Desktop
Edition version 3.0, setting a new standard for performance and compatibility for
the simultaneous use of the Microsoft Windows and the Linux operating systems.

From PR NewsWire: In response to growing
interest worldwide, Trolltech is expanding its “Qt University” education
program. Qt is Trolltech’s flagship product — a fully object-oriented, C++
GUI application framework that has everything the software developer needs to
quickly and easily create and maintain professional-looking GUI applications.

KDE.org has another feature on a KDE hacker. This time, it’s Michael Brade, who’s working on KNotes. He’s a student from Germany.

Ask Slashdot deals with the question about Red Hat and Corel actually having good financial reports recently, even though the rest of the economy seems to be struggling.