From PR Newswire: American Power Conversion
(Nasdaq: APCC), a global leader in end-to-end availability enhancement
solutions, announced today that APC has been named the provider of power
protection solutions for Penguin Computing Inc., a San Francisco, Calif.-based
provider of reliable Linux systems for Internet serving. In an effort to help
maximize system reliability and uptime, Penguin Computing will resell APC
surge protection and uninterruptible power supplies to its workstation
and server customers worldwide.

Anonymous Reader writes “Subscription revenues increased modestly while losses continue to be high, over $8 million last quarter. With only $16 million left in the band, will EMusic be able to survive until Napster changes over to a pay service this summer?

http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2001/emussub.ht ml“

“The Global File System (GFS) is a 64-bit shared disk cluster file system for Linux. GFS cluster nodes physically
share the same storage by means of Fibre Channel or shared SCSI devices, and makes the entire file system
appear to be local on each node. GFS is also fully symmetric, meaning that all nodes are equal and there is no
server which may be a bottleneck or single point of failure. GFS uses read and write caching while maintaining
full UNIX file system semantics and supporting journaling, recovery from client failures, and many other features.” Read all about it at LinuxProgramming.com.

From CNET: “Rock star Bruce Springsteen has lost his bid to
evict a fan club from a Web site sporting his name, according to
an arbitrators ruling Wednesday.”

CNETNews.com: “The EFF argues that the right to speak
anonymously is constitutionally protected and should not be given up just because companies
want to unmask critics. Furthermore, the groups are urging the court to first decide whether the
plaintiff has a claim and then balance the potential harm to the anonymous speakers with the
need to know their identity.”

From Wired: “The digital age has rendered the pretenses of copyright protection irrelevant. That’s the argument of Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman. But can the alternative of copyleft be legally defended?”

“GRUB, unlike LILO, is able to read filesystems and recognize kernel images too.
While LILO requires the physical location of the kernel on your drive, GRUB does
not. Even the latest filesystem ReiserFS is supported. This means that you don’t
have to re-install GRUB every time you make a change to the config file or install a
new kernel. If your BIOS supports LBA then there is also no problem reading
beyond 1024 cylinders. There’s some good support for network booting of diskless
clients. On the other hand, GRUB installation can be a bit of a problem. Maybe
we’re all too used to LILO or maybe GRUB still has some way to go? Little of both
we think.” From FreeOS.com.

“Fresno III was recently held to discuss free and open source medical software. The full press
release follows. Some of the highlights of the meeting where as follows:” Read more at LinuxMedNews.

Alan Cox posted this update and change log to the kernel mailing list: “Known problem: AIC7xxx doesn’t work with some adaptec controllers still.”

Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 20:10:27 +0000 (GMT)
              From: Alan Cox alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
              To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
              Subject: Linux 2.4.1-ac5

                      ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/

                      Known problem: AIC7xxx doesn't work with some adaptec controllers
                      still

              2.4.1-ac5
              o       Fix zero page corruption                        (Ben La Haise)
              o       Elevator corruption fixes                       (Jens Axboe, Linus)
              o       Fix fdatasync possible corruption problem       (Arjan van de Ven)
              o       Further KSLI ethernet fixes                     (Eric Sandeen)
              o       Merge the correct version of the pm fixes       (me)
                      | noted by Mikael Pettersson
              o       Account for inode/dcache in free memory         (Rik van Riel)
              o       Add info on how to check reiserfsprogs versions (Steven Cole)
              o       Disable write combining on serverworks LE chips (Mark Rusk)
              o       Fix via audio crashes                           (Jeff Garzik)
              o       Fix ip accounting rules bug                     (Rusty Russell)
              o       Handle USB printers that use device not         (Johannes Erdfelt)
                      interface descriptors
              o       Fix wheel on graphire usb tablet                (Peter Hofmann)
              o       Clean up maxiradio driver                       (Francois Romieu)
              o       Fix visor USB size reporting on buffers         (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
              o       Update USB serial documentation                 (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
              o       Fix locking on etherworks3 ethernet             (Jeff Garzik)
              o       Fix empeg USB driver problems                   (Gary Brubaker)
              o       Generic USB serial driver fixes                 (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
              o       Update USB serial configure.help                (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
              o       Add more device support to mct_u232 USB         (Cornel Ciocirlan)
              o       Fix typo in asm-ppc/semaphore.h                 (Andre Dahlqvist)
              o       Report reiserfs tools in ver_linux              (Steven Cole)
              o       Fix resource leaks in NCR_53c406, atari_scsi    (Rasmus Andersen)
                      and qlogicisp
              o       Move pci_enable_device earlier for hamachi      (Dave Jones)
              o       Type 6 drives are apparently floppy 2.88M       (Dave Jones)
              o       Remove duplicate pci_enable_device in ne2kpci   (Dave Jones)

              2.4.1-ac4
              o       Fix sk_in use counting in svcsock.c             (Neil Brown)
                      | Not yet a complete and final agreed solution
              o       Add support for KLSI USB ethernet               (Brad Hards,
                                               Stephane Alnet, 'the Zapman', and co)
              o       Update aic7xxx driver                           (Doug Ledford)
                      | Please test this carefully and cc reports to Doug
              o       Add help for CONFIG_INPUT                       (Steven Cole)
              o       3c523 driver update                             (Tom Sightler)
              o       Fix reiserfs Changes entry further              (Steven Cole)
              o       Limit ide scatter gather to 128 blocks          (Jens Axboe)
              o       Merge hppa config.in changes                    (Matthew Wilcox)
              o       Fix tx timeout recovery on via rhine            (Manfred Spraul)
              o       Fix stale comments in fs/block_dev.c            (Tigran Aivazian)
              o       Further defxx driver work                       (Maciej Rozycki)
              o       winbond 840 reported wrong setting value        (Maciej Rozycki)
              o       Guillemot Maxi radio support            (Dimitromanolakis Apostolos)
              o       Allow sleeping in pm callbacks but with locking (me)
                      working

              2.4.1-ac3
              o       Remove ancient dead net/Changes file            (Janice Girouard)
              o       Merge Linus 2.4.2pre1
              o       Resync xirc2ps with Dave Hinds tree             (dilinger)
              o       Finish sorting out ramfs problems               (Mike Galbraith)
              o       Update AWE32 documentation                      (Andre Dahlqvist)
              o       Remove reference to dead PPP documentation      (Andre Dahlqvist)
              o       Make max_map tunable                            (Werner Almesberger)
              o       Fix dead references to java support in some     (Andre Dahlqvist)
                      arch/config
              o       Make shmfs estimate size limits if none set     (Christoph Rohland)
              o       Revert Crusoe hanging pci hanging changes
                      | Im still chasing something weird in this
                      | area that some of the pci changes I have fixes...
              o       Merge HPPA hackers into CREDITS                 (Mathew Wilcox)
              o       Merge some of the HPPA updates                  (Mathew Wilcox)
              o       Add Reiserfs tools to changes                   (Steven Cole)
              o       Fix i2o Configure.help typo                     (YOSHIMURA Keitaro)
              o       SuperH HD64465 host bridge support              (Greg Banks)
              o       Fix modversion.h includes                       (Keith Owens)
              o       Tlan driver probing updates                     (Jeff Garzik)
              o       Change media drivers to use new style module    (me)
                      locking
                      | Janitorial job - fix the last ones that
                      | don't use module_*() and dump the init code

              2.4.2-ac2
              o       Fix matrox G450 framebuffer support             (Petr Vandrovec)
              o       Fix description of DMA-mapping.txt              (Dave Miller)
              o       Fix accidental revert of classifier bug         (Dave Miller)
              o       Fix accidental revert of isdn change
              o       Fix datagram hang on shutdown                   (Alexey Kuznetsov)
              o       Fix 64bit build of clntproc                     (Michal Jaegermann)
                      | wants a tidier solution yet
              o       Fix ide toc caching bug introduced in 2.4.0     (Fredrik Vraalsen)
                      | this should fix the DVD playback problems
              o       Swapfs renaming and final bits                  (Christoph Rohland)
              o       Further APIC/NMI updates                        (Mikael Pettersson)
              o       Add further kernel doc contributions            (John Levon)
              o       ACPI battery tweaks                             (Pavel Machek)
              o       Further ramfs fixes                             (Ingo Oeser)
              o       ROMFS fixes                                     (Mike Galbraith)
              o       CS4281 fixes                                    (Thomas Woller)
              o       Shift to authors official fixes for acenic      (Jes Sorensen)
              o       Update the usb hosthost network drivers      (David Brownell)
                      | Experimental but he wanted feedback so if you
                      | have one beat it up a bit

              2.4.1-ac1
              o       Resync with Linus 2.4.1
              o       Fix recursive make_request crash                (Ingo Molnar)
              o       Updated VIA IDE driver                          (Vojtech Pavlik)
                      | Please exercise due care and caution testing this
                      | bit...
              o       Fix case where threaded apps might write to     (Ben LaHaise)
                      freed kernel memory
              o       Fix ACPI oopses on tecra (apparently bios bugs) (Pavel Machek)
              o       AHA152x fixes from maintainer                   (Juergen Fischer)
              o       Fix case where scsi could hang on boot waiting  (Rogier Wolff)
                      for a disk spinup
              o       Further maestro3 pm work                        (Zach Brown)
              o       Further NTFS fixes                              (Yuri Per)
              o       Add GNU make to the list of URLs in Changes     (Steven Cole)
              o       Make dmx3191d enable device before touching it  (Rasmus Andersen)
              o       Make the sbpcd driver actually useful in 2.4    (Paul Gortmaker)
              o       Make buslogic enable device before touching it  (Rasmus Andersen)
              o       Fix tty module locking mishandling              (Maciej Rozycki)
              o       Workaround code for APIC problems with ne2k     (Maciej Rozycki)
                      | this will break original 82489DX devices for now
                      | ie _very_ early dual pentium boards
              o       Fix iptos netfilter bug                         (Rusty Russell)
              o       Fix get/set_fpu_mxcsr to check xmm ont fxsr     (Doug Ledford)
              o       Fix name_to_kdev_t symbol                       (Adam J Richter)
              o       Update magic sysrq docs                         (Jeremy Dolan)
              o       Support for ETinc PCIsync boards                (Francois Romieu)
              o       Mass duplicated word spelling fixes             (Dave Jones)
              o       Update sb driver to use spinlocks               (Chris Rankin)
              o       Fix leak in bmac driver                         (Hans Grobler)
              o       Fix kmalloc check in atm/common                 (Hans Grobler)
              o       Fix buffer leak in defxx                        (Hans Grobler)
              o       Fix kmalloc check in netrom driver              (Hans Grobler)
                      |BTW side exercise - how about using vmalloc here ?
              o       Ditto for rose                                  (Hans Grobler)
                      |Ditto for comment ;)
              o       Fix lockd 64bit handling                        (H J Lu)
              o       Tidy pci_match_device ifdefs                    (Rasmus Andersen)
              o       Fix qla1280 handling of registration failure    (Rasmus Andersen
                                                                       Rakesh Rakesh)
              o       Config include fixes                            (Niels Jensen)
              o       MatroxFB updates                                (Petr Vandrovec)
              o       Tidy fat_read_super to use get_hardsect_size    (Tigran Aivazian)
              o       Fix m68k bitops ffs()                           (Geert Uytterhoeven)
              o       Fix ip_nat_standalone ksyms stuff               (Rusty Russell)
              o       Fix copy_from_user mishandling in ip_fw_compat  (Rusty Russell)
              o       Fix romfs for 2.4ac maxbytes                    (Mike Galbraith)
              o       filemap/aging updates                           (Rik van Riel)
              o       Enable device before reading irq in ne2k-pci    (Martin Diehl)
              o       Remove surplus nr_ioapics definition            (Rasmus Andersen)
              o       S/390 build fixes                               (Florian Laroche)
              o       Advansys driver fixes/portability               (Arnaldo Carvalho
                                                                       de Melo)
              o       Fix out of message handling error in i2o_block  (Jason Lai)
              o       Fix bit granularity of 32 in ACPI driver        (Adam J Richter)
              o       Fix unsafe casting for ARM on NFS root mount    (Russell King)
              o       Fix mxcsr masking on pentium IV                 (Doug Ledford)
              o       Update u14/eata drivers to 6.03                 (Dario Ballabio)
              o       Fix signed/unsigned mess in sysctl handlers     (me)

              ---
              Alan Cox alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
              Red Hat Kernel Hacker
              & Linux 2.2 Maintainer                        Brainbench MVP for TCP/IP
              http://www.linux.org.uk/diary                 http://www.brainbench.com

Infoworld: Official for Unisys on Tuesday fired a shot across the bow of the Unix community with its announcement that Microsoft is aggressively developing Windows solutions for the Unisys ES-7000 server with the intent to push the Unix operating platform out of the data center.