Linuxdevices reports that ADS will demonstrate “true sleep mode” at the upcoming Linux World Expo in New York. They claim that with their support, the board and StrongARM chip draws a mere 0.01 watts while sleeping.

Are platform neutral packages a dream? A new project on Sourceforge has been setup to address this very idea, as reported by Slashdot.

An interview with John Heard continues the line of interviews that LinuxPower is conducting with the companies behind the Gnome Foundation.

Business 2.0 discusses clustering using Linux as the core. “For engineers and designers, bigger is better. Their data-crunching demands spurred mainframe computer makers to success decades before desktop PCs emerged. Speed remained the holy grail long after vacuum tubes and computer punch cards became obsolete. Now companies including IBM (IBM, info) and Hewlett-Packard (HWP, info) are proclaiming Linux-based “clusters” as the next generation of supercomputers.“

DebianPlanet has a short note on Stormix going bankrupt. Slashdot also reports on it.

John Gowin writes “Jim Fuller, the Linux Orbit Newbie in residence shares his thoughts on the powerful command shell workhorse Midnight Commander. From editing files to updating and installing packages, Midnight Commander is one of Jim’s favorite “newbie” tools. Yes I said Mouseless Commander. Originally, Midnight Commander had no mouse support and was so named. Later on when mouse support was included, the developers went out and asked the users to vote on a name for the product, which is how it ended up being called Midnight Commander. Note that it had to have the initials mc as this is the two letter command used to execute the program.
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An editorial on Slashdot picks apart a report on Online Privacy written by Consumers International. “A lot of the blame for the misreporting falls on the authors of the study. They described their study as “An international comparative study of consumer privacy on the internet”, when in fact it was nothing of the kind.“

Thanks to Dan Gewirtzman for this: “There is an interesting review of the Cobalt Qube3 here from a hacker’s perspective.

It is by Moshe Bar, one of the better known Linux journalists and kernel hackers.” Check it out at Moelabs.com.

Gnutella, the peer to peer sharing system, is gradually changing through the various implementations of the protocol. Since the original release, many new features have been added to help the network grow. Slashdot has a discussion of how this is affecting end-users.

Linux Today reports: “Industry and security analysts were left shaking their heads after learning Microsoft kept all its DNS servers
running on one IP subnet on the same network. The setup ensured that a DoS attack, or common system
failure, could bring down Microsoft’s entire collection of Web sites.”