From LinuxNewbie: “Expect problems. This is still leading- to bleeding-edge technology. In the
course of the installation the keyboard played dead and the computer played
dead: I mean for several minutes no OS would boot, at all–neither from the
hard drive, nor from the CD. I must admit I got close to being rattled by
that. But I unplugged the machine for 3 minutes while I read Alternative
Press magazine and that did the trick. Of course, Alternative Press may not
do it for you.”

From an InfoWorld story about the growing number of wireless application servers: “Lutris is marketing its Enhydra Wireless 3.5 as an open-source alternative to the wireless and mobile application servers such as WebLogic from BEA Systems, in San Jose, Calif., WebSphere from Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM, and iPlanet from the Sun-Netscape Alliance.”

Miva Corporation has announced
that Internet Research Institute and Sumitomo Corporation joined
forces to make a multi-million dollar investment in Miva, a leading provider
of open source e-commerce software. As part of the transaction, IRI and
Sumitomo will use their collective marketing resources to assist with Miva’s
expansion into the Japanese market. Check out the press release at Linux PR.

KDE.org interviews developer David Faure from MandrakeSoft: “(I’m) doing the dirty job :). Fixing bugs everywhere I can, helping users and developers that
have problems. I also work on some Mandrake-specific KDE stuff. Oh, and when I have
time after all this, I work on improving konqueror and I plan to do more on koffice in the
future.”

GeekCast.Com is back and it is coming out of the box with a revised
“Penguinista DSL Project.” The new program uses new FCC Rulings to
solve the problems associated with DSL installations, and develops funds for
good causes to boot. The press release is at Linux PR.

From LinuxToday.com.au: “Now, with the admirable goal of learning from history’s mistakes, the Free
Standards Group has announced the first iteration of its Linux Development
Platform Specification (LDPS). The basic plan is to have a commonly agreed
standard so that Linux application developers can write code that will run on all
major distributions without modification.”

From The Associated Press: “In a ruling that challenges online anonymity, a Florida appeals court declared Monday
that Internet service providers must divulge the identities of people who post defamatory
messages on the Internet.

Critics of the ruling say it could have a chilling effect on free expression in Internet chat rooms.”

From Linux PR:
Sun Wah Hi-Tech Group
has announced in Shenzhen it has become a strategic shareholder of
RedFlag Software Co. Ltd. to promote the homegrown
software and OS industry internationally.

eWeek says the successes of Linux, not its failures, may have contributed to several delays in the 2.4 kernel, which may not be ready this year.

Fairfax IT reports that Students at Swinburne’s Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing have constructed an interactive map of the universe in just three months, using a Compaq supercomputer running Unix.