Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien is the latest inductee into the pie-in-the-face club, after getting pied in Charlottown, PEI. Other famous members include Bill Gates.

Guardian Digital is introducing a distribution of linux geared at high security for electronic business, says LinuxPR.

The BBC is reporting on a new treatment for the disease TB, which currently takes as much of six months of treatment.

LinuxPR is carrying the story of a new linux support pool being created at IQLinux.com

Debian’s 2.2 release press conference was summarised by Linux Weekly News.

TechWeb brings us the news that Transmeta has launched a new processor.

Analysts wonder about the direction of the company after founder Michael Cowpland resigned this week. In the Reuters
analysis piece: “The company — caught between a slowdown in sales for its mature products and weak demand for its new Linux line — is now in the hands of a relatively unknown executive who faces the formidable task of turning around the company’s flagging fortunes.”

TheStandard.com
interviews Michael Dell following his keynote address at LinuxWorld. “There’s obviously a viable business here,” he says. “We’ve been gradually building more and more support around Linux based on the groundswell of demand from our customers.”

The Maryland voter is protesting political corruption, but selling a vote may be illegal, CNN reports. The voter identified as “apragmatic’ writes: “You may specify whom I vote for in the presidential and all other elections in my district, by name or by party. Why should the American citizen be left out? Congressmen and senators regularly sell their votes to the highest bidder. Democracy for sale!”

Linus Torvalds, developer of Linux, asked if Microsoft will compete with Linux by making Windows Open Source, answers: “It’s not going to happen. But if it does, I’m all for it.” He’s interviewed by Inter@ctive Week.