From Open:

Free at last: Business communicators can get to know the wonders, wallops, and weaknesses of soft phones by downloading free Linux soft phone from telephony whiz-kids, Zultys Technologies. This week, find out what Zultys offers in telephony solutions for any business where mobility is required, plus honest observations about VoIP's technology kinks.

From Linux Journal:

Sisler High school is the largest high school in Manitoba, with approximately 1,600 students and 120 staff members on campus. The school offers many computer courses at different levels, ranging from computer programming and office skills to vocational subjects, such as trouble-shooting personal computers, networking and advanced operating systems. In 2002, due to a letter from CAAST (Canadian Alliance Against Software Theft), the school spent more than $50,000 to make sure we had all the necessary licenses for our software.

I have been using and teaching Linux on both the high school and university levels since the mid 1990s. I have set up a variety of Linux servers for a variety of purposes: Web server, shell accounts, Java/C++ programming, routers, as well as HA (high availability) clusters and Beowulf clusters.

From Open:

This week, Open magazine discovers a sure example of what happens when a smart startup builds a business on sweat, good ideas, and a LAMP unto its feet. We talk to the executive VP of iStockphoto, who not only uses MySQL but unashamedly drops its name as the company's database of choice to impress partners who, like his team, are impressed with all MySQL can do.

From LinuxGames:

That tirelessly coding fairy godmother of the Linux gaming community, Ryan "icculus" Gordon, has posted news that a 64-bit native version of the UT2004 demo (see our previous post) for AMD's AMD64 line of processors is now available. This package includes both the client and the dedciated server. Ryan cautions people to consider several factors when evaluating the AMD64 build. The compilers/drivers on this architecture aren't nearly as mature as you might be used to on a 32-bit system, so don't be too critical about performance just yet. If you don't have an Opteron, Athlon64, or Athlon FX processor then this build is useless to you. If you don't have a 64-bit operating system, then this build is useless to you. And, finally, there are reports of system lockups and reboots when running this binary: you have been warned. In short, you probably shouldn't be running this on your company's mission-critical webserver.

Read the full thing here

MozillaQuest Magazine (mozillaquest.com) reports: SCO could end up suffering a fatal blow to its anti-Linux war if the U. S. District Court for Utah grants Novell's Motion to Dismiss the SCO v Novell lawsuit. On the other hand, refusal of the Utah Court to dismiss the lawsuit could mean that SCO does indeed have a claim to the Unix copyrights. A decision to dismiss this lawsuit also could have ripple effects against SCO in its lawsuits with IBM and Red Hat.

The motion is based on Federal Rule of Civil Procedure12(b)(6), which allows a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit when the Plaintiff (instantly SCO) does not stand a snowball's chance in Hawaii of winning the lawsuit.

From the Cooker Mailing List:

http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/MandrakeLinux-10.0-rc1.torrent

• We revert to XFree 4.3 for license reason.
• We remove japanese fonts for license reasons.
• New Drakfax.
• Drakconnect must still have some troubles.

-- Warly

From /.:

"Another big name looks like it's going to shack up with Linux. Shuttle, the maker of those small little cube looking PCs, is adopting Mandrake Linux with their newest network appliance XPCs. You can check out a review of the machine at Sudhian."

Read the full thing here

From icculus.org:

Sorry for the lag time, everyone, had showstoppers to fix.

Linux download is here:

• California FTP, courtesy of Primer.
• Georgia FTP, courtesty of LinuxHardware.org.
• European HTTP, courtesy of, uh, not lokigames.com.
• Swedish HTTP, courtesy of pomac.
• The BitTorrent, courtesy of Primer.
• French HTTP, courtesy of ut2k3.fr (has Mac, Linux and Windows demos!)
• Multiple mirrors for all platforms, courtesy of 3D Gamers.
• German HTTP, courtesy of ut2004planet.de.

md5sum: da200b043add9d083f6aa7581e6829f0

Jump to it here for more info and Mac links.

Contributed by Lacidar, who can't remember his password:

Following Munich, Germany's decision to switch to Linux desktops, the French capital of Paris is studying a similar move.

Systems integrator Unilog is set to carry out a feasibility study on the installation of open-source software systems for the city of Paris, the company has said. On the strength of an earlier Unilog study, Munich agreed to migrate thousands of desktops from Windows to the open-source operating system Linux.

Posted to the Cooker Mailing List by Helge Hielscher (edited for view and spelling errors):

Here is a summarized list of questions and suggestions from our Volunteers, Contributors and Members and the answers of MandrakeSoft.Please feel free to add your comments, suggestions and feelings. Thanks.

A. Relation with contributors

1) Some contributors seem frustrated by the lack of communication with Mandrakesoft reps. What is the position from Mandrakesoft for contributors? Is their work considered only as an addon ?

It's like a win-win relation: MandrakeSoft higly respects contributors' work and considers it very important for all Mandrake products. On theother hand, contributors have the opportunity to contribute to a dynamic Open Source project and of course benefit in return. In short: do you wanta better quality product? Test it more and report possible solutions... Want a new feature? submit it, convince us about the opportunity to builtit and integrate it. As a result, Mandrake Linux answers contributers needs, and the product improves, for the benefit of all. That's the spiritof Open Source Software.