Linuxworld has a detailed piece discussing the essence of Open Source, and some of the points of view on the subject. “It’s really simple. Open source is an umbrella. It is as much about development methodology as licensing issues.“

“Just bug fixes. The sound stuff wants a good hard testing, the other stuff shouldn’t be too risky. Cyrix MTRR works again, I hope. The ps/2 mouse reconnect stuff is now an option you must enable to avoid breaking touchpads.” (As
reported by lwn.net.)

Slashdot reports that the new AES algorithm will be selected on October the second by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Linux is growing in its share of the embedded systems market, says EE Times, and fast.

CNN tells of an ambitious plan by 3com to put wireless terminals at every seat in a stadium, with the intent of allowing spectators to view scores, send email, and possibly even order food.

SAFLINK Corporation, a global biometric software
provider, today announced that it plans to incorporate both the Common Data
Security Architecture (CDSA) standard and the BioAPI specification standard in
its expanding product line of multi-biometric software solutions. SAFLINK and
Intel Corporation have been working closely together over the past several
months to test an extension of the CDSA framework to include support for
multiple biometrics technologies. Both CDSA and
BioAPI have been released as cross-platform open-source specifications that
are designed to run on Microsoft Windows, Linux and Unix environments.
The press release is at PR Newswire.

From a Linux World column:

“Sun Microsystems’s recent purchase of Cobalt Networks tells me that somebody at Sun has his
or her head screwed on right. Sun has publicly positioned this move as an opportunity to jump
into the low-end server appliance market; buying Cobalt was undoubtedly one of the best possible
ways to do that. And in the long run, Cobalt helps Sun hedge its bets against the probability that its
Solaris- and Sparc-based systems will not forever hold the lead in the high-end Internet server
space.”

ApacheWeek has an update on the status of Apache: “Apache 1.3.12 is the current stable release. Users of Apache 1.3.11 and earlier on Unix and
Windows systems should upgrade to this version. Read the Guide to 1.3.12, the Guide to 1.3.11
for information about changes between 1.3.9 and 1.3.11 and the Guide to 1.3.9 for information
about changes between 1.3.6 and 1.3.9.”

From PR Newswire: eOn Communications Corporation, a provider of
unified voice, e-mail and Internet communications systems, has announced an
expanded partnership with Reliance Telecommunications, one of Northern
California’s premier suppliers of voice and data communications systems.
Reliance Telecommunications will now market, install and service eOn’s newest
line of communications systems, servers and software, including the eNterprise
communications server.
The eOn eNterprise is a next generation private communications exchange
(PCX) platform that enables businesses to consolidate and manage voice, e-mail
and Web applications in a single unified system. The eNterprise is based on
the open standards Linux operating system.

From Maximum Linux: “Apple has spent quite some time in the Linux media lately with its adopting bits of
BSD within OS X. While Apple may be taking a page from Linux and the Open Source community,
they didn’t have to drop its stock prices quite so drastically. Someone should tell Apple this is not what
the Open Source community means by ‘free.’ “