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.

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.

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

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]

Thanks to a (previously) little-known company called "Digital Convergence, " we now have our latest attack on the right to program. [Linux Weekly News]

Article about the business decision behind releasing Zope as Open-Source

A security flaw involving unchecked HTML content. Recent versions have been patched and are no longer vulnerable.

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

"... it is a bit disappointing that there are not more organized groups out there."

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]