ZDNet’s LinuxDevices reports on a survey of developers, asking their reasons for considering Linux and Open Source products. Top answers included: “So I can add functionality directly within the OS,” and “It facilitates debugging and troubleshooting.”

From EET.com: “A group of research students from the Malardalen University
(Vasteras, Sweden) have developed a near clone of the ARM7 processor
CPU and are now considering how to improve it. One possibility is to add the
multiply instructions they originally omitted to minimize the gate count to the
core, dubbed BlackARM.

The researchers are also considering whether to make the VHDL source code
available for free under an open-source license, or whether to try and build a
business around their work.”

Posted at LWN.net: “WireX have found some occurrences of insecure opening of temporary
files in htdigest and htpasswd. Both programs are not installed
setuid or setgid and thus the impact should be minimal. The Apache
group has released another security bugfix which fixes a vulnerability
in mod_rewrite which may result the remote attacker to access
arbitrary files on the web server.”

A ZDNet column claims Sun is acting awfully Microsoft-ish lately, especially when rolling out its own verson of Microsoft’s .NET.

From BusinessWire: Aduva, Inc. a pioneer in network-based, automated Linux service, today
announced it had received $7.8 million in venture financing from The Capital Group, Cap Ventures and Evergreen Management, Ltd. in addition to a
number of private investors.
Founded in October 1999, Aduva has developed the first complete software technology that addresses the service and support needs of the
growing Linux market. Its network-based service automates administrative management of Linux for both corporate and home users.
With a compound annual growth rate of 212%, Linux is considered to be the fastest growing operating system in the world, according to
Survey.com. Survey.com also estimates that 20% of desktops will be running Linux by the year 2002.

Slashdot readers talk about a cool-looking project from the Compaq Cambridge Research Laboratory using Linux on the iPaq.

ZDNet reports that the invention that’s supposed to be more important than the Internet is now being pres-old on Amazon.com, although no one knows for sure what it is and what its price will be.

From PR Newswire: SGI (NYSE: SGI) today
announced that it will install the company’s first production cluster based on
Intel Itanium processors at the Ohio Supercomputer Center. The
146-processor system will provide the Ohio research and education community
with the world’s largest system using the new Itanium architecture. Part of
the cluster will be devoted to the National Computational Grid Project.
“SGI is committed to bringing out the best, most powerful Itanium
architecture-based solutions to the high-performance computing marketplace. We
are delighted to continue our relationship with OSC to improve the performance
and functionality of Linux clusters,” said Jan Silverman, vice president,
Advanced Systems, SGI.

“The settlement of Sun’s lawsuit against Microsoft
over Java this week ends any hope that the
programming language will act as a platform
allowing software to be written once and run
anywhere, as Sun chairman Scott McNealy once
envisioned.” This from InternetWeek.

VNUNet reports: “Corel’s decision to spin off its Linux business was not influenced by its financial backer, Microsoft,
and could actually spell bad news for the Windows giant, according to Corel’s chief.

Speaking to vnunet.com, Corel’s president and chief executive, Derek Burney, said that part of
Corel’s alliance with Microsoft, which saved it from bankruptcy last year, was about “porting
[Microsoft’s] technology to Linux. So they might be unhappy that some developers will be
disappearing.”