Army officials this week awarded the Maxi-Minis and Database-1 contracts to GTSI Corp. of Chantilly, Va., and IBM Corp. The contracts include 64-bit Unix servers, workstations, operating systems, compilers, software, and LAN and WAN hardware and software. Ordering should begin by mid-November, if no vendors file protests within 10 working days of the Aug. 29 award, GCN reported.

From a Salon.com story: “Grant Bayley sees no reason to heed the recent U.S. District Court ruling that banned Eric Corley, aka Emmanuel Goldstein, publisher of hacker magazine 2600, from distributing a DVD-decrypting program. After all, Bayley lives in Australia, out of reach of the U.S. judge, which is why you might think that he would never stop linking to the forbidden DeCSS program from the Web site of 2600 Australia, a hacker collective that he organizes, and which, despite the name, is unaffiliated with Corley’s venture.”

The NetMAX Professional Suite, Linux
2.2 version, from Cybernet Systems, is designed to easily convert older computers into Linux-based servers. Review at Inter@ctive Week.

Companies that trade oil and gas as commodities now hope to do the same with fiberoptic bandwidth. Yahoo!News story.

Zope security update and fix at lwn.net, courtesy of the Linux-Mandrake security team.

What do you value most about open source? is but one of many questions asked in a poll at linuxdevices.com.

It’s a new site and a new project – BestLinux.org. The original project translated Linux into Finnish, a project that is now complete. The site’s authors say, Our new objectives are distributing the excellent results of the former project to the international
Linux community and achieving similar success worldwide.

Review of the new Compaq/Microsoft iPAQ “Internet Appliance” from the San Francisco Chronicle that is far from 100% favorable.

Announcement at useperl.org about the October O’Reilly University of Perl 2000 four-city tour.

It’s that time again – time to read the latest Linux Gazette. Lots of goodies in this issue, too.