Our friends at Linux.com have the interview with theKompany.com’s CEO. “What really drew me to Linux and KDE was the desire to do our KODE product,
and I didn’t think Windows was where I wanted to do it. I sort of watched and
researched the landscape for about a year before I decided to go for it, and then
we incorporated in August 1999 and started working in earnest in September.”

From PR Newswire: Integrated Telecom Express, Inc. (Nasdaq: ITXI) (“ITeX”), a leading
provider of ADSL integrated circuits and software, today announced support of
the Linux Operating System (OS) for its Apollo(TM) family of full-rate ADSL
chipsets. Immediately available in volume production, the new Apollo-Linux
chipsets enable high-performance, cost-effective ADSL solutions for PCI NIC
cards, gateways and ADSL-enabled embedded solutions.

Slashdot readers debate 2600’s answer to the MPAA, the U.S. government, and several professional sports teams. The brief itself is at http://www.2600.com/news/display.shtml?id=161.

From SysAdminMagazine: “An earlier term for gaining unauthorized access to computers was “cracking” (as in
safe cracking), whereas “hacking” applied to people that pushed computers and software to their limits (and beyond). Over time,
the media has bastardized the term “hacking”, leaving “cracking” to pedantic geeks and the history books. The term hacker is now
applied equally to people like Linus Torvalds (father of Linux) or Tim Berners-Lee (father of the modern WWW), and criminals that
steal information or execute attacks on network sites.”

“GUI based mail clients do make life easy and are now available for Linux too, so
why would anyone still want to use Pine – a text based, non-gui mail client, Well,
Pine is fast, reliable, can handle tons of mail and is flexible too.” FreeOS.com teaches us about Pine.

FreeOS strikes again: “When the Linux kernel has to access a File System, it uses a file-system-type
independent interface, which allows the system to carry out operations on a File
System without knowing its construction or type. Since the kernel is independent of
File System type or construction, it is flexible enough to accommodate future File
Systems as and when they become available.”

“The Agenda VR3 is a fully functional PDA that’s closely related to the Kerbango
Internet Radio. The common link? Well, Linux of course. Let’s look at these
innovative new devices that are likely to be on your next shopping list.” More at FreeOS.com.

The Register: “On 30 and 31 January, someone posing as a Microsoft employee persuaded
VeriSign, the largest US certificate authority, to issue two certificates under
Microsoft’s name.”

CNET: “A year ago, Mike Feinstein was calling the shots: The 26-year-old Cornell University
graduate was director of business development for a hot e-commerce start-up that
was going to give Amazon.com a run for its money.

But his San Francisco-based online textbook distributor folded in November, and Feinstein is
now voluntarily unemployed after an extended vacation in Asia–but not without a plan: He’s
waiting to hear from admissions officers at Northwestern University and other schools where
he wants to get his master of business administration degree.”

From LinuxPlanet: “Anyone who works with Linux on IBM’s System/390 mainframes has certainly heard of David Boyes. He made history early in the project by running
no less than 41,400 Linux images on a single mainframe, all of them doing real work under simulated load as web servers. More recently, David has
been involved in helping application service providers and other companies deploy Linux on System/390 hardware in the real world.

David Boyes is 34 years old and lives in Ashburn, Virginia, just a few miles west of Washington D.C. He is newly married to Margarete, a native of the
former East Germany whom he met when she was in the U.S. as an exchange student.”