TechWeb.com has this story: “IBM is looking for a few good Linux solution
providers-and it’s willing to pay to get them started.

At the PartnerWorld conference this week in Atlanta, IBM
Corp. (stock: IBM) said it expanded its Linux-focused
You Pass, We Pay program. Under the program, IBM will
reimburse business partners for up to $3,000 in tuition and
test expenses for each employee who gets certified via the
Linux Professional Institute or Red Hat Linux.”

The Associated Press reports on a project commissioned by the Brazilian government, called Volkscomputer, which runs on Linux.

ComputerWorld quotes users. “I’m quite annoyed at what they’re doing,” said Tim O’Neill, e-mail administrator at the U.S. Army’s
Aberdeen Test Center at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. “My agency spent a substantial
amount of money for seat licenses, plus the subscription [update] program, which is extremely costly. I feel
that they have taken our money and walked away from a commitment.”

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.”