“Still knocking bugs out,” Cox says in an email published on LWN.net.

MSN is overbilling
subscribers by hundreds or thousands of dollars
for what is supposed to be a $21 monthly fee,
MSNBC.com has learned. MSN has not,
however, issued a general warning about the
glitch, opting instead to handle irate customer
service calls on a case-by-case basis. The report is at MSNBC (yes, the MS stands for Microsoft at MSNBC, too).

LinuxBoxen.com, a division
of Unified Consulting, Inc., has launched its new e-commerce site, , offering customers hardware components bundled with Open-Source Linux
drivers and software. Read the press release at LinuxPR.

The RIAA has appointed Bruce Block, formerly the chief technology officer and vice president of business development for Musicmaker.com, as its senior vice president of technology. The press release is at the RIAA’s Web site.

The Street was mixed in its reaction to Red Hat’s
second quarter Friday; the company got a downgrade
from ABN AMRO, while other analysts were neutral on
its results.

Shares in the Linux operating system distributor were
down 2 to 23.25, or 8 percent. There had been some
execution worries for the company after its CFO
departed in July, reports ZDNet. More from CBS Marketwatch.

Punk band Offspring said Friday it will give away a new album on the Web, hitting asour note with a recording industry fighting a landmark copyright case against Internet song-swap service Napster Inc. Offspring’s strategy directly contradicts the recording industry’s argument that Napster’s technology is hurting salesby enabling fans to get music for free. Reuters has the story.

KDE has announced that 1.94 “Kandidat,” the fifth and final beta preview of Kopernicus, has been released. Slashdot readers discuss the news. The press release is at LinuxPR.

Behind the candy-coated shell, Mac OS X provides all the power of Unix with very few compromises, according to a review at MacWorld.

Linux.com article suggest, the next time you compare two programs in order to decide which to install ask yourself “Will this program do what I want?” and not “Was this written by someone I dislike?”

Newsbytes is reporting, legislation scheduled to be voted on in a House subcommittee on Monday could force Web surfers to pay up to 33 percent more for Internet access, a coalition of Internet service providers said today.