As reported by LWN, Alan Cox has released the -ac11 patch to 2.4.2.

Slashdot has an article talking about how Linux is used for animation and 3D modelling during postproduction of movies.

Dan Barber writes: “Open Source has become the rallying cry for the software industry … an industry which only twenty years ago was as deeply mired into the old economy way of thinking as most other industries are today. The question is, can we take our ‘lessons learned’ and help other industries take the next step to a truly “new economy”? This article at mojolin.com discusses the issue and offers at least one possible way of moving forward (specifically for the auto and energy industries, but probably applicable to other industries, as well).”

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.”