Linux World presses its case for a standard by which all Linux distributions will conform. The author does not recommend a specific standard, but does advise distributors to work together.

Salon reports on the growing unrest with Intel among the techie community, saying the feeling is that Intel is being controlled by marketing instead of engineering.

ZDNet reports that Palm OS has a back door allowing a user to bypass normal security systems on systems running Palm OS.

Reuters reports on the CIA’s sniffing software. Capable of automatically transcribing and translating telephone, radio, and television communications, ‘Oasis’ can log and index just about anything.

ZDNet reports that the ICANN’s proposed addition of 7 new top-level domains has been postponed due to the recent fall in tech stocks, and prolonged contract negotiations with the proposed distributors of the new domains.

ZDNet reports that Ericsson Business Innovation is planning to release the “blip,” a small device that communicats with mobile devices equipped with Bluetooth.

Posted at LWN.net: “GLib is a library of support routines for C programming used
by the GTK+ toolkit, by the GNOME desktop environment, and
quite a few other projects. It includes data structures
such as lists and hash tables, an event loop, a portable
dynamic module loading mechanism, and many utility functions
for increased portability and convenience.”

Among the several items at Apache Week: Apache 1.3.19 Released

Apache 1.3.19 was released on 28th February 2001 and is now the latest version of the Apache server. The previous release was
1.3.14, released on the 26th Jnauary 2001.

thedukeofurl.org reviews Trustix Secure Linux, “a distribution that has one focus and one focus only — to provide a server distribution that is secure. There are no frills
with this distribution. When you install Trustix, you very quickly realize that you are on the business end of the server. There is no GUI, nor
are there any real configuration tools. What you get is very close to a traditional UNIX server.”

A column at LinuxWorld argues just that. “If Linux companies refocused their efforts away from maintaining multiple base distributions, they
could concentrate on the kind of added value that would crack the Linux market open.”