Discusses WinRefund Movement on bottom 1/8 of page one; or near the top of the 1-big-page LWN.

Ladislav Bodnar talks about how Gentoo became one of the most widely used distributions. Describes originality, persistence, packages, documentation, community.

Large categorized list, begun in 1999: leading, newbie, education, general, international, special use, embedded, secure, handheld/PDA, floppy, CD, zipdisk, diskless, wireless, DOS/Windows, CPU-based, historical. [Linux Weekly News]

Conducted at a Conference in Kyoto, Japan. Wall discusses topics including Perl certification, the commercialization of Perl, competition between open source projects, and the power of laziness.

Artciel by Steven Bosscher and Diego Novillo. The first bits a major compiler internals overhaul have been merged into the development mainline of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) for inclusion in the next release.

The :CueCat is a classic example of a broken business model. One can no longer (if, indeed, one ever could) put out a piece of hardware with the expectation that people will not seek to improve its operation with new software. [Linux Weekly News]

Initial performance: 8x Linux Threads, 4x NGPT. [Linux Weekly News]

Lyrical summary of SCO suit and related events, in format of song 'I Am The Very Model of a Modern Major-General', from 'Pirates of Penzance', by Gilbert, Sullivan. With funny forum comments. [LWN: Linux Weekly News]

Eric S. Raymond reacts with suitable, short, indignant response, saying: "This is a baseless slur, unsupported by facts." Several forum comments. [LWN: Linux Weekly News]

Full, uncommented text of original 4 August complaint, by plaintiff Red Hat, Inc., versus The SCO Group, Inc., formerly Caldera International, Inc. [LWN: Linux Weekly News]