A long UpsideToday interview with Michael Dell in which he says his company is number one in all kinds of areas and will be even number one-er in even more areas in the future, selling mostly Windows stuff — but a little Linux here and there, mostly on servers. (Disclosure: NewsForge is owned by VA Linux, a Dell competitor not mentioned in the interview.)

Psst! Yeah, you. Wanna get into Micorosft’s internal netowrk, maybe lay your hands on a couple of goodies like the source code for some of their software? Our friends at The Register tell you how in a flippant way that you can take seriously or not as you choose, even though the methods they speak of are certainly credible.

“After StarOffice, more source code made available. JYACC will open one
million lines of code of its Panther Open Source Software for Linux
environments this week,” says a
story at ZDNet.uk. “The drive to provide enterprise developers with robust Linux environments is
gathering momentum. JYACC, a New York-based enterprise software and
solutions company, will release this week the one million lines of code for its
POSSL (Panther Open Source Software for Linux) technology.”

“James H. Moore Steps Up To Chair BOXX Technologies,” described on internetwire.com as a “Leading High Definition And Digital Film Hardware Manufacturer.” Mentioned here only because BOXX supports Linux, among other platforms.

ZDNet.uk talks of new free set-top Internet surfing boxes being offered in Great Britian for people who don’t have PCs — and warns that the terms under which they are being given out may allow so many, um, “purchasing opportunities” to be offered to those who sign up for the service that they may become disgusted with it.

Intel has slashed prices on Pentium III and Celeron processors by as much as one third, reports Infoworld.com.

BSDToday brings us some more explanations and information about some uncommon or rarely-used utilities often installed on BSD systems.

A statement issued by Microsoft on Sunday, contradicting earlier
statements by company spokesmen, states
that the hacker infiltration of its Redmond,
Wash., campus network last week lasted
less than two weeks and that Microsoft
security tracked the infiltration soon after
it began. Although clearly an attempt to
mitigate the incident, the statement
tellingly leaves open the possibility,
reported last week, that the hackers were
able to steal source code for a major
product under development. From The Standard.

Installing multiple operating systems on the same box has become
common, especially for consultants, hobbyists, developers and Information Systems administrators. Everyone
has different reasons, but for everyone, it all comes down to the same reason – trying out the latest systems. But
is dual booting the solution? From 32bitsonline.

BSDToday reports that the chpass family contained a format string vulnerability that could be exploited by unprivileged local users to gain local root access.