Sun CEO Scott McNealy promised that Sun would soon be the number one Linux company by a long shot, saying that Linux is UNIX and Sun is the biggest UNIX company. More at TechWeb.

China is preparing to send an unmanned research craft to the moon, reports Yahoo Daily News.

Not all security compromises can be blamed on the people who carry them out, say people attending the first Global InfoSec Summit in Washington. The people who write insecure software should carry at least part of the blame. The story at NW Fusion.

ZDNet reports that Mindspring may have left 23,000 web sites open to attack, by leaving a password-containing file in a bad place.

MSNBC warns about George W. Bush’s policy of required censorship for schools which receive federal funding for their computer systems.

A question posed to humor site Segfault’s Answer Guy: “I have a problem. I use KDE on my desktop and my girlfriend uses GNOME. When she found out about KDE she
left me. What should I do to bring her back? I tried to install GNOME but she didnt return.”

MSNBC reports on the “Simputer,” a palm-sized Linux-based device that a company in India hopes will bring the Internet to the 95 percent of the world’s population who’ve never logged on.

The press release is at BusinessWire: TeamLinux Corporation and Silicon Valley Bank have announced that Silicon Valley Bank has provided TeamLinux with a $1 million line of credit to support its accelerating growth.
TeamLinux Corporation provides web-enabled products, maintenance and professional services in
heterogeneous environments enabled by Linux and other open source technology.

The Standard reports on what may be bad news for Napster: “Napster, the contentious online
music-swapping service, will face the same
judge who ordered an injunction against it
when lawsuits brought by heavy metal
group Metallica and rap star Dr. Dre
proceed.

Judges at a Los Angeles federal court
ordered the cases transferred to U.S.
District Court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel in
San Francisco on Monday.”

Wired.com says early benchmark tests have Transmeta’s Crusoe chip not winning any races: “Sony and NEC launched the first notebooks based on Transmeta’s revolutionary
new Crusoe chip, but preliminary benchmark scores seem to indicate the
much-ballyhooed chips are no speed demons.”