A NASA researcher says that Mars may not be wet as research earlier this year suggested. Using data from research on Devon Island in northern Canada, Pascal Lee offers a different explanation. The story is at the Boston Globe.

InfoWorld is covering the source code release of POSSL: Panther Open Source Software for Linux. JYACC hopes to help jumpstart Linux application development.

BSDi has received an infusion of cash from Livin’ On The Edge, a Japanese firm, reports Linux PR.

ZDNet reports that BlueTooth is being released by IBM for Linux developers under the name BlueDrekar.

From SecurityFocus.com: The FreeBSD advisory regarding this vulnerability (FreeBSD-SA-00:61) offered
the following possible solutions:

1) Upgrade your vulnerable FreeBSD system to 4.1.1-STABLE or
3.5.1-STABLE after the respective correction dates.

2a) FreeBSD 3.x systems prior to the correction date.

From the humor site Segfault: The University of Southern California today continued to defend its
lawsuits claiming ownership of the term ‘Trojan horse.’ In the wake of a serious breach of
Microsoft system security, USC officials and representatives have steadfastly held that the
university holds a trademark on the phrase ‘Trojan horse.’ USC President Steven B. Sample
today added, ‘the Men and Women of Troy will pursue all available avenues to defend USC’s
software-related intellectual property.’ The author even manages to work FreeBSD into the piece.

Oreilly.linux.com has an article on installing Linux on a Mac G4: “What was once a Unix-geeks operating system
is now drawing attention from people in all corners of computing: from those
developing massively parallel computing architectures at universities to senior
citizens at home wanting to get a handle on this Internet revolution. Among this
diversity I’ve noticed that a noteworthy segment of users are attempting to install
LinuxPPC 2000 on their PowerPC G4s. Because I happen to share the opinion
that the G4 hardware is very appealing, I’m going to describe in laymen’s terms
how to perform a LinuxPPC installation on a Macintosh PowerPC G4.”

Maximum Linux reports that OpenSales, the provider of Open Source e-commerce apps will change its name to Zelerate, which has expanded its services department and
brought on a new member to the executive team. A press release is at LWN.net.

From LinuxDevices via ZDNet: “Agenda Computing has manufactured a limited pre-production build of several hundred VR3 PDAs and is going to make them available at a highly discounted price to developers who want to be in the forefront of creating apps for the new Linux PDA.”

LinuxWorld, the Web site, reports on LinuxWorld, the conference, in Germany: “A number of significant Linux players, like Corel, Applix, and Loki, didn’t appear at the Expo. It
was also hard to find GNOME’s footprint — the only place I saw GNOME was on Jon ‘maddog’
Hall’s notebook computer during his keynote. KDE absolutely dominated the booths and
presentations. Is more evidence needed of a strong KDE position in Europe?”