“Well, Paul Thomas, the retreating CEO of Turbolinux, finally rang up.

According to his story, he’s not leaving the company just yet, but he’s talked to the Turbolinux board and told them he felt that there must
be someone out there ‘better suited than me’ to run the joint. Someone who combines Thomas’ operations strengths with a deeper
knowledge of – and, dare we say, sympathy for – Linux and open source than Thomas has. If the board happens to stumble across this
paradigm, well, then, Thomas is prepared to peel off his presidential and CEO epaulets and stick around as chairman. The board
disagreed, he said, that he was not its beau ideal, but agreed to take a look.” Read more at LinuxGram.

From CNET.com: “For security-conscious system administrators, three letters have become a household
word when it comes to securing remote computers: SSH.”

Wired.com: “Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik says he is far from worried by Microsoft’s recent attack on Linux and open-source software: It’s Bill Gates who should be scared. In fact, says Red Hat, we’ll take our case to Congress.”

From The Standard: “PC chip pioneer Intel (INTC) will demonstrate its growing
interest in the server market when it unveils three new
high-performance server chips this week that target similar
products from rivals such as Sun Microsystems (SUNW) and
IBM (IBM) .

The new chips carry an ever-greater burden for sparking
growth at the silicon behemoth because of slowing PC sales in
the U.S.”

BusinessWeek:
“While there’s little upside this year, chances are patient investors will be
rewarded later on as new (Microsoft) products catch on.”

LinuxNews.pl writes “Maciej “Macias” Pilichowski (hell good Delphi programmer) wrote for us second part of exciting Kylix Review. Read on to find out what Maciej thinks about the program! (or check out our
first part of the review)”

CNET.com:
“In place of the DVD-ROM devices available in earlier versions of the consumer desktop, the new
models follow through on Apple’s promise to bring Macs up to speed with CD-RW, a storage
technology where Apple CEO Steve Jobs has acknowledged his company ‘missed the boat.'”

MSNBC tells us: “Launching the retail version of Microsoft Picture It! 2000 may
trigger this error: ‘Missing Component: EULA acceptance has
failed. Please reinstall Picture It!’ If you click OK, Picture It!
2000 quits.”

BinaryFreedom: “The guys at Xiphophorus have been very, very busy. Releasing beta4 of the Vorbis CODEC, moving to a BSD license and forming a non-profit corporation to champion free multimedia development and distribution efforts are just the beginning.”

Dan Barber writes “A facetious look at one possible future: (These events are fictitious. Any resemblance to persons either real or imagined is purely coincidental. Please Do Not Panic!)

In the bedroom of a small house in rural Kansas:
Joe, a 23 year old developer who contributes regularly to the Katewatchee Office project in his free time, is just finishing up some work on the latest and greatest application to go in the next release. He is very excited about the improvements he has made and can’t wait to add the source to the development tree. These improvements are the final step in making Katewatchee the pre-eminent, holographic 3d physical (H3P), web, watch, cell-phone, radio and nostril enabled office product in the world. At 17:25 (18:25 Zulu), he touches the wall establishing a connection to the Internet, securely connects to the source host server, and…”