Slashdot discusses a Spanish article at Reforma on the adoption of Linux in Mexico City, and the savings that creates.

International Data Group reports that Intel’s P2P evangelist, Bob Knighten believes that if you aren’t running a P2P application now, you will be soon. “Clients already taking part in P2P systems include PCs and PDAs (personal digital assistants), and the network is already moving toward the support of cell phones and fixed-line phones…”

Linux Journal details how to set up a Linux system as a bridging firewall. Unlike a proxy firewall, a bridging firewall may offer protection but is geared toward linking two networks transparently.

Anonymous Reader writes “Interview with the CEO of The Sync and author of “/etc: GeekTV”,
Thomas Edwards.

http://www.linuxfreak.org/articles.db/03/15/2001/647.html“

The CBC reports that a simple tool dropped a few days ago by the crew of the space shuttle Discovery and Space Station Alpha came back to haunt the space-craft pair Wednesday, when it threatened to come within 100 metres of the spacecraft traveling at over 28,000 kilometres per hour.

highlander writes “Talk about browser and all that the users can think of is IE or Netscape. And, if you dare to look for something other than the big two, chances are that youll land up with their clever clones. But, here’s a browser that could teach the biggies a thing or two about features. …
Read more about CrystalPort, here“

Linux Journal has an open letter to ICANN, the Internet Corporiation for Assigned Names and Nmubers, arguing that restrictions should not be put on the .org top-level domain, as exists on .edu, .mil and .gov.

Intel has released its math kernel library for Linux. Version 5.1 Beta features BLAS, FFTs, LAPACK, and VML. Registration is required.

From CNET News.com: “In a move some are calling the height of chutzpah, a plaintiff identified only as an Indianapolis-based “Anonymous Publicly Traded Company” sued AOL Time Warner’s America Online in an attempt to learn the names of five people who posted criticism of the company on AOL message boards. The company said the John Does posted “defamatory and disparaging material misrepresentations.”” The Virginia Supreme Court was not amused; the company was told to identify itself or drop the matter.

From Slashdot: “evenprime writes “In this zdnet column, Evan Leibovitch responds to linux critics who say that Caldera and Red Hat will be the only distributions to survive. Evan points out that the diversity of available distributions, and the ability to roll your own, is a great strength.” The arguement Evan makes is one that, IMHO, is correct – and people need to remember that the diversity of the distributions isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Sure, maybe the commericial variants will move down to a couple, but I think for the overall community, diversity is a strength. “