“While OpenBSD may not satisfy the part of one that hungers for cutting-edge 3D support, it will satisfy the part that craves security and
stability — which is one reason why a lot of users have switched to the *NIXes over the last couple years. OpenBSD 2.8 is a milestone in many
ways.” Read The Duke of URL’s review.

From a press release at LinuxPR: “VA Linux Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: LNUX) today
announced that SourceForgeTM OnSite, its solution for collaborative software
development in the enterprise, received top honors at last week’s LinuxWorld
Conference & Expo. SourceForge OnSite won the Show Favorite Award for Best
Productivity Application. Produced by IDG World Expo, the latest LinuxWorld
Conference & Expo in New York City was the largest to date.” (Disclosure notice: VA Linux also owns NewsForge).

From ZDNet UK’s Jeffrey Burt comments on Sun’s new Open Net Environment, designed to compete with Microsoft’s .NET offering: “McNealy and other Sun executives said that a key differentiator is that
Sun’s plans are based on standards and an open environment, while
Microsoft’s approach has more proprietary elements.”

IDG reports on an upcoming announcement from IBM. The company is about to ship its 3,000th S80 server, making it the number one selling high-end server of all time.

A story at ZDNet UK says WAP is back and will better than ever. “Scott Goldman, chief executive of the WAP Forum, claimed Thursday
that the next version of the wireless application protocol will be
powerful enough to survive the challenge from Japanese rival i-mode.

WAP 2.0 is scheduled to ship this summer and will
boast a host of new features — giving wireless users an experience
closer to that enjoyed by subscribers of NTT DoCoMo’s popular
i-mode service.”

At LWN.net: “This is a port of Linux 2.4 to Axis Communications ETRAX 100LX embedded network CPU …
CRIS is an acronym for ‘Code Reduced Instruction Set’. It is the CPU architecture in Axis
Communication AB’s range of embedded network CPU’s, called ETRAX. The latest CPU is called
ETRAX 100LX, where LX stands for ‘Linux’ because the chip was designed to be a good host for
the Linux operating system.”

From PR Newswire: Webb Interactive Services, Inc.
(Nasdaq: WEBB) announced today that it will report its fiscal 2000 financial
results on March 1, 2001 and that a conference call will be held on March 5,
2001 at 4:15 pm EST to provide a discussion of the results as well as
expectations for the current year.

From Salon.com: “Hard-drive snooping is the latest in
online grass-roots marketing, and Napster is helping to make it
happen. Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks in which Net-connected
individuals make the contents of their hard drives available to the
general public are no longer being used just by music fans to swap
illicit MP3s; they are also increasingly being used as a savvy
promotional tool and a market research database by record labels,
musicians and entrepreneurs who are trying to figure out better,
faster ways to sell music. In fact, a whole new crop of market
research companies is springing up online — call them Napster
parasites or, more politely, symbionts — eager to take advantage
of the wealth of personal data that can be mined from hard drives
all over the world.”

LWN.net has this: “Styx has reported that the program `man’ mistakenly passes malicious
strings (i.e. containing format characters) through routines that were
not meant to use them as format strings. Since this could cause a
segmentation fault and privileges were not dropped it may lead to an
exploit for the ‘man’ user.

We recommend you upgrade your man-db package immediately.”

ZDNet reports that people trading free music and other stuff over the Open Source Gnutella may be “sharing much more: sensitive data files that could expose them to identity theft.” More from The Register.