This IDG News article theorizes, the future of governance was
recently on display in Yokohama, Japan, not a World’s Fair, a U.N.
conference or an international exposition, rather, it was the latest meeting of ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.

The original Linux Labs (since 1995, not the new “Linux Lab”) has
introduced a 1U rackmount server using AMD’s Duron processor.

The new Duron 1U server comes preconfigured with Debian or Redhat
GNU/Linux and serial console. Web-based system administration tools are
included as part of the base system. The press release is at LinuxPR.

From a Mandrakesoft press release at LinuxPR: “People are different, they have special needs, let’s proclaim that the standard
is KDE and GNOME and… any other high-level free desktop environment
that is good enough to make Linux more attractive to ALL users.”

Atipa Corporation, a leading
provider of end-to-end Linux and open source solutions, led all exhibitors at
last week’s LinuxWorld Conference and Expo by winning three of the ten
“Show Favorite” awards presented for outstanding products. Atipa products
were chosen as Show Favorites in three categories: Servers,
Hardware/Hardware Peripherals, and Software Utilities. The press release is at LinuxPR.

From a Reuters story: Job cuts at Internet companies in August jumped 55 percent from July, led by cuts in the Web retail sector, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc. Job cuts in the dotcom sector from December 1999 through Aug. 23 totaled 11,785, up from 7,592 posted through July 23, with retailers accounting for the biggest portion of the layoffs.

Online music site MP3.com ducked one blow in its court fight over copyright with the recording industry when a federal judge issued an opinion limiting its damages for infringement, according to published reports, reported IDG.

The peer-to-peer networking revolution championed by Napster will change computing, Intel Corp. believes. And the rest of the industry better jump on board, said Pat Gelsinger, Intel’s chief technology officer, in his Intel Developer Forum keynote speech Thursday morning, according to a story on ZDNet.

From a ZDNet column: “Dell detests them. Many Linux players distrust them. IBM takes almost as many potshots at them as it does at Oracle. Microsoft? Not this time. In fact, Microsoft is watching them like a hawk. Instead, the new Public Enemy No. 1 these days seems to be Sun Microsystems. And Sun executives seem to be reveling in their outlaw status.”

What looks like Microsoft Internet Explorer on the outside, but employs Mozilla’s Gecko rendering engine on the inside? It’s a new open-source browser called K-Meleon. From a story on ZDNet.

From a column at ZDNet: “The LinuxWorld event that seems to have stuck in most people’s minds (or craws, depending on which faction one is aligned with) is the announcement of the GNOME Foundation. Wireless vitriol aside, I think that all this buzz about GNOME vs. KDE is completely ignoring the real issue. I mean, really, who cares whether the underpinnings are CORBA-compliant? Before any developers out there begin squawking that they care quite a lot, thankyouverymuch, it bears pointing out that GNOME and KDE aren’t really for them. They’re for those hypothetical Linux Desktop Users Of The Future.”