The Economist says: “Linux, the free computer operating
system developed by thousands of
volunteers collaborating over the
Internet, is still not taken very
seriously in corporate circles. It is
used for niche tasks, such as running
web servers, but it is generally
deemed to be too immature for the
most demanding environments, such as
heavy-duty database systems. Recent
events, however, suggest that
Linux-whose mascot is a cheerful
penguin-may have outgrown the commune
of its birth.”

Wired.com reports that “Microsoft has built a reputation for dominating the software and Internet markets, but it also has an equally strong reputation for not being forthcoming when calamity strikes. Such was the case this week with its website failures.”

The BBC reports: “The European Commission (EC) is to launch an investigation into
alleged price fixing by leading Compact Disc (CD) sellers.

The EC fears that companies – including EMI, Time Warner, Sony,
Bertlesmann and Universal – are sharing information in order to set
prices artificially high.”

The Standard reports that the SIIA filed separate lawsuits against two men, alleging that they
sold illegal copies of software products to people who had bid
for them at auction Web sites, said Peter Beruk, VP of the
antipiracy division at SIIA. Named in the suits are Michael Chu
of Los Altos Hills, Calif., and Christopher Julian Kish of
Chicago, who are both accused of violating the U.S.
Copyright Act, Beruk said. If found guilty, each of the
defendants faces a fine of up to $150,000 for each title
infringed upon.

pkej writes “eZ publish is a web based application suite. It delivers functionality ranging from publishing of news, web logs and diaries, through web shop functionality like shopping carts and wishlists and forums to intranet functions like contact handling and bug reporting.

The software uses caching and other optimization techniques to speed up page serving. It handles users, user preferences and user tracking through a user database and both cookie-based and non-cookie sessions.

It supports statistics for page views, links followed and banner ads, both images and HTML with presentation logic.

The package lends itself easily to customization, from changing the look and feel by changing templates, localizing the languages and other internationalization issues to adding new functionality.

The target audience for eZ publish are e-commerce, ASP (Application Service Providers), BSP (Business Service Providers), news publishing, intranets, bug reporting, content management, discussion boards, FAQ and knowledge handling, file and image management, group ware, calendaring, polls, todo lists, appointments as well as personal web sites.

Release info
Feature description
Old documentation, new will be uploaded during the day.
Screenshots will be uploaded during the day.

Wired.com: “A series of problems centering around its collection of routers in Canyon Park, Wash. — near the company’s headquarters —
is what the company blames for knocking out dozens of Microsoft (MSFT) properties including hotmail.com and msn.com,
frustrating millions of users and providing acute embarrassment for a company that is offering the promise of unprecedented
reliability in marketing its Internet products. ”

FreeOS.com: “This series of articles aims at helping novices get a firm grip on the basics of
Linux. It?s for those of you keen to get up and running with Linux, but don?t know
where to start. In this first part of the series, we shall look at using Linux via its
Command Line Interface or CLI.”

From FreeOS.com: “In a previous article, we saw how versatile the boot loader ‘LILO’ was. This session
we get more technical and look at the internals of LILO, its primary boot time
operation, functionality and a few nifty little arguments that can help us tune up our
LILO installation. One of the plus points of LILO is that it is filesystem independent. It
is able to boot operating systems from Microsoft, OS/2, SCO Unix, Unixware,
PC-DOS to Linux.”

MSNBC tell us that a host of errors may be generated by selecting Open, Save, or
Save As on the File menu in Microsoft Office, Excel, Word, and
PowerPoint 2000 programs. Additionally, if the current folder
includes subfolders, all of the subfolders except for the last one
may appear as squares or question marks.

Kirill Kolyshkin writes “SWsoft has just released a new stable version of ASPSeek – advanced Web search engine software, distributed under GNU GPL. ASPSeek is really the new word in free search engine software, capable of searching fast and efficient through millions of URLs and thousands of sites. ASPSeek’s greatest features are PageRanks and WebSpaces. Find out more, and download the source from
homepage.”