From Bloomberg.com: “International Business Machines Corp. is shaking off
more of its starch and stodginess in a new advertising campaign that finds the world’s largest
computer maker embracing a plump, web-footed marine bird. A six-story billboard is scheduled to appear in New York’s Times Square late next week, and others
will rise in California’s Silicon Valley. They will proclaim in symbolic form: ‘Peace, Love & Linux.’ ”

Slashdotters discuss reports, including a a story from IT Week, that Hewlett-Packard will use Linux, not Windows CE, on its Jornada handhelds.

At mozillaquest.com: The Mozilla Organization has added an additional Milestone release to its Mozilla Development Roadmap and release schedule. Milestone 0.8.1 was added in between the recent 0.8 release and the upcoming 0.9 Milestone. It replaces and pushes-back the Mozilla 0.9 release date in the Roadmap schedule. That in turn pushes back the Mozilla 1.0 release date.

This new Roadmap schedule sets Milestone 0.8.1 release for 19 March 2001 and Mozilla 0.9 release for 23 April 2001. Please see Table 1.

Milestone 0.8.1 was added to the Roadmap schedule in order to allow the Mozilla developers time to fix more bugs prior to the Mozilla Milestone 0.9 release. In part this additional bug-busting round is because Mozilla 0.9, in addition to being a development Milestone release, also serves more or less as a beta branch-point for those people developing embedded Mozilla-based products that want to have a beta of their products

MozillaZine posts status reports for independent projects associated with the Open Source browser. This issue includes news from Chatzilla, Jabberzilla, MozOffice, Chameleon, and Sherlock.

Michael Hudson posts the latest edition of the python-dev summary, a twice-monthly message that summarizes the traffic on the python-dev mailing list. In this issue, users discuss backwards incompatability, obmallac, pydoc, and other items.

The latest edition of Zack Brown’s Kernel Traffic is now available. In this latest summary of threads from the linux-kernel mailing list, topics include: “New Protocol For Network Console During Bootup” … “Status Of VIA Driver For 2.2 Kernels” … “2.4 VM Improvement Over 2.2; Status Of VM” … “Innovative Microsoft Clustering Solution. Order Now!”

Alan Cox posts details of the latest Linux kernel. 2.4.2-ac9 includes an updates E820 table sanitizer, a fix to SCSI drivers to limit request sizes, CDROM fixes, and the “Loop device fix of the day.”

ZDNet reports that Windows XP will use an artificial intelligence system similar to that used in credit card systems to prevent pirated copies of the operating system from booting.

From LinuxPR: “SuSE Linux, the international technology leader and solutions provider
in Open Source operating system, announced the new SuSE Linux
Knowledge Portal, offering extensive first-hand information about
Linux. The new Internet service can be accessed on the Web at
http://portal.suse.de and http://portal.suse.com.”

LinuxPlanet’s Dennis E. Powell comments on an article written and published earlier this week by Richard M. Stallman: “So now we have Richard M. Stallman likening the GNU General Public
License to the Declaration of Independence. Well, the GPL is written in English, and it was composed in the United
States, and it has a few words in common with the work of Jefferson,
Franklin, and Adams, but to liken the two documents is a laughable
exercise in megalomania.”