BBC.com reports that several music companies are laughing at Napster’s proposed $1 billion settlement.
“We are disappointed that Napster has resorted to a tactic which is
little more than a public relations gambit,” said the recording
industry’s representative body IFPI.

A column at ZDNet recaps the trademark fight between SSH Communications Security and OpenSSH, and talks about international trademark law problems for SSH Communications Security.

From the Linux Journal: “I like to bop around with my MP3 player while I deal with the ones and zeros of the computer world. When I upgraded to the 2.4 kernel, I lost
my sound for no apparent reason. I took this as a personal insult and made it my mission to conquer the computer. The audience for this article
is mainly those who have had sound but lost it during a kernel upgrade.”

keskoy writes: Userlocal/com has a story with step by step instructions on “how to upgrade KDE 1.1.2 in Slackware 7.1 to KDE 2.0.1 in the Slackware -current tree. This article also covers upgrading glibc to version 2.2.”

Sander Vesik writes: “I am glad to announce that a new snapshot of OpenOffice.org codebase
has been released and can now be downloaded. It is another milestone on the road towards feature-completioin and wider platform support (sorry for the PR-speak there). As proper, there are also release notes and tarballs with source.”

Slashdotters discuss a press release about the two Linux companies finally tying the knot.

Kir Kolyshkin writes: “SWsoft has just released new version of ASPSeek search engine software. ASPSeek is a search engine software developed by SWsoft and licensed under GNU GPL. This basically means that it is free, open-sourced software, and everyone could participate in development.
ASPSeek is optimized for multiple sites and medium loads, and can be used to search within several million pages (URLs). User can search
for words and phrases, use wildcards, and do a Boolean search. Search results can be limited to time period given, site or Web space (set of sites) and sorted by relevance or by date.
This release adds some features and fixes some bugs found (see changes for details).”
Homepage | Download source code | Try online.

AsiaTechBiz reports that Third Ware Co., Ltd. and NEC Software
Hokkaido Ltd. exhibited a Linux-based server, Flashoot-Mail, recnetly. The server can handle
100,000 mail sends per hour. They
will begin shipping the server in
March 2001.

LinuxDevices.com interviews Karim Yaghmour, author of the Linux Trace Toolkit, who recently started a new project to develop an Adaptive
Domain Environment for Operating Systems (Adeos). “The
purpose of Adeos is to provide a flexible environment for
sharing hardware resources among multiple operating systems,
or among multiple instances of a single OS.”

From PR Newswire: PlaceLinks, Inc., a leading
provider of advertising content management and promotional systems, today
announced that it’s adding another newspaper to its client roster. The Boston
Herald is launching a new marketplace on their Web site http://www.bostonherald.com
using PlaceLinks’ advertising and promotions directory system.
Based on XML and Linux technology and
operating on a distributed server network, the PlaceLinks system also allows
advertising content to be syndicated to other online directories and linked to
m-commerce applications.