From a column at the Independent of UK: “Last March, I wrote about the experience of being hacked. Your correspondent, still a Linux newbie after months of effort, discovered that his home-built Red Hat Linux machine had been commandeered and turned into an IRC chatbot by someone named ‘bonez’. ”

Internet technology firm Zero Knowledge said its
anonymous Internet browser Freedom should be available to
Linux users next month, reports ZDNet UK.

TurboLinux has announced that computer giant Acer will ship the TurboLinux operating system in the European market on
selected models of AcerPower and Veriton business desktop computers. Read the press release from Business Wire.

Dell has announced first-to-market
availability of Version 7 of the Red Hat Linux operating system on Dell PowerEdge servers
and Dell Precision Workstations worldwide. The press release is from Business Wire.

From column at Sun World: “There’s an old saying, ‘The right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing.’ Sometimes it seems
as if Sun has a split-brain personality, particularly when it comes to releasing Solaris source code.”

LinuxWorld reviews the Omnis Studio RAD tool: “This RAD tool pulls its weight, but still suffers from some bugs and annoying licensing.”

From a Wired.com story about AOL promoting Internet music services: “Ian Clarke turned the world on its head with
the development of Freenet, a decentralized, anonymous
information-sharing application which would dwarf Napster in its
ability to connect users.

What is in doubt is when, or if, the open source programming
will ever be finished and usable by a mass, mainstream audience
living in the point-and-click, AOL world.”

Akopia Interchange, a leading
open source e-commerce software has been selected by Red Hat for inclusion on
Linux 7, Deluxe edition, LACD. The press release is at LinuxPR.

From a review at ZDNet: “Although it won’t single-handedly render Linux palatable to the masses, Nautilus goes a long way toward delivering the sort of desktop experience that Windows and Macintosh users demand. The first preview release of Nautilus shows that Eazel Inc. will bolster the GNOME desktop environment with an open-source file manager and graphical shell that are easy to use and highly configurable.”

e-smith, a provider ofnetwork server solutions for small and mid-sized
businesses, has announced the appointment of IBM veteran John Landry to its board of
directors, according to LinuxPR.