ZDNet UK has a reposting of the announcement of StegFS, a steganographic file system for Linux. “FS doesn’t just make a file hard to read — it conceals the information’s existence.“

Issue #58 of the Linux Gazette is posted and ready for people to read and enjoy.

Slashdot has the story on Rambus, Inc, pursuing legal actions relating to its patent on SDRAM ram and DDR-SDRAM. The Register also has a report on the situation.

Linux Planet offers this review: “Red Hat 7.0’s recent release was ransacked by the user community, looking
for the next Big Thing. The response has been less than overwhelming thus
far. But while all the hoopla about Red Hat was going on here in the
States, the latest release from Deutschland has quietly been causing a stir
of its own, first in its home country, and now here.”

The prolific Alan Cox has another version of Linux ready: “Bug squash number one. This should fix the ‘it doesnt compile at all’ bug.
The other change here is that support for faster processors, that will catch
out anyone using (abusing) udelay with extremely large values. If you get
a link error or a module load error about bad_udelay let me know.” The announcement’s posted at LWN.net.

Slashdot hosts a discussion of different Linux journaling filesystems. “… SuSE/Namesys’s reiserfs, SGI’s XFS, IBM’s JFS and Tweedie/Redhat’s ext3fs. Avoiding the obvious question of why can’t the effort going into four different projects be channeled into one, I think a discussion of the particular merits of the different fs’s would be interesting.“

A new IRC network has been created, one which is encrypted end to end via stunnel (an SSL traffic wrapper). Courtesty Slashdot.

Caldera has issued an update to OpenLinux to fix a bug with traceroute (thanks to lwn.net).

Slashdot reports that KBasic development is underway. It’s targetted at allowing Windows Visual Basic ® programmers to migrate to KDE and Gnome environments without trouble.

CNET’s week in review takes a look at the events of the past week, including the drop in tech stocks following Apple’s revenue announcement.