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If you want good interface design, look no further than ESR's own beautifully designed fetchmailconf.

Not to say that he doesn't make good points, but... well... just look at the screenshots.

-Mark

If you want good interface design, look no further than ESR's own beautifully designed fetchmailconf.

Not to say that he doesn't make good points, but... well... just look at the screenshots.

-Mark

Hmmm - didn't ESR inspire Netscape to following a similar path to "salvation" back in '98? (Netscape)
Hopefully (for Sun!) history won't fall into its old habit of repeating itself.

In reference to your "munge together" bit, check these out:

The LJ article I mentioned

A similar article

Why do we ask companies to GPL their aging products and then ask if anyone cares?

This RDBMS is a viable peer to PostgreSQL. It has many features that MySQL does not have.

Just the other day, there was a good article about this database.

What are you talking about? Linux has never suffered a buffer overflow.

It's a nice way for higher-quality pubs to maintain their offerings, but they should expect some heat over the equal-access problem that paid content creates. If it's a choice between existing and not existing, then a quality site should offer subscriptions. But neither time nor bandwidth are free (unless you use a trojan to hijack some Windows box), and paid content is a fair way to get a return on an investment.

Still, just as there's a movement to give net access to low-bandwidth users in developing countries, perhaps there should be a similar push for content availability that is stratified by country.

The main catch in getting the software is the driver for your mass storage, the hard drive. Unless you need to support only a small number of workstations--say, 5 or less--a SCSI or SATA interface is essential for good performance. Unlike the parallel IDE, neither the SCSI nor the SATA is a standard interface, and a special driver for Linux is needed. Moreover, the driver needed is for the SCSI or SATA interface and, in general, should be supplied by the motherboard maker or the interface maker. The SCSI driver I got from Intel was written for Red Hat 8.0, and as a result, I can choose only the LTSP software that was built on Red Hat 8.0. In fact, the driver from Intel didn't work with Red Hat 9.0, so I had to settle for LTSP 3.0, which was built on Red Hat 8.0.

Sounds remotely like Posix capabilities. They appeared in Linux in kernel 2.2. Here an article: Taking Advantage of Linux Capabilities

• Gentoo growing in popularity
  
  According to this article[1] on InternetNews, Netcraft's January survey
  counted over 24,000 Gentoo installations on active web servers, showing
  almost 20% growth over 6 months. Also, as we've reported in the past,
  Gentoo has been getting more and more recognition from various sources
  recently - while Gentoo Linux did not win the award, it was a finalist for
  a Product Excellence Award at LWE 2004[2], and has been featured in
  publications like Linux Journal[3] and Linux Weekly News[4]. Here's a
  shout out to all the developers and community members who keep making
  Gentoo great.
  
  1. http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3 313211
  2. http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/ind ex.cvn
  3. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?thold=0&mo de=thread&order=0&sid=7002
  4. http://lwn.net/Articles/59138/

What is this about Nokie the article mentions? All Google gave me was a SDK and a seemingly long dead prototype set-top box... would it be this Embedded Linux Targets Telecom Infrastructure?

1) ...compromise a nearby machine first and install a packet sniffer...
Use a one-time pad system, as mentioned above.

2) ...you'd see a lot of people writing down the knock...
If you'd read the Linux Journal article, they address that by saying the program that executes the knock needs to be very secure. Say, like the USB key they mention.

This isn't a great system for continued, heavy use as this guy pointed out, but it could be used for emergency purposes. For example, if you had to remotely administer a server. You have an emergency USB key that you plug in your local machine, knock, then gain remote access with the opened port (using whatever authentication you would have if the port was simply open).

I think, at very least, the concept needs to be thoroughly debated and vetted. (Maybe that's what we're doing here, or maybe we're just wanking ;)

PrisonerCX

If you use Konqueror, you'll certainly want to upgrade. Apple's Safari team has committed substantial changes to KHTML. It's easily the fastest browser in KDE.

article here

In 1996-1997 a book by Naba Barkakati "Linux Secrets" stated on the cover "Linux is a registered trademark of William R. Della Croce, Jr.". Thanks to good lawyers and support from numerous institutions and people Linus Torvalds has got the trademark back finally (see LinuxJournal 31). After that there have been cases against many Free Software projects. To name a few:

• Krayon
• Killustrator (charged by Adobe)
• MobiliX, which is now TuxMobil (charged by Asterix and Obelix)
• MobICQ, which will soon be renamed to Jimm ( charged by AOL)

Which other cases do you remember? Please let me know, because I will write a documentation.

Who will be next?

Air-traffic control systems don't run no Linux. They either run QNX or SCO.

Linux in Air Traffic Control

according to this common Iraqi's are being given thier first glimps of the the net. How come you have a 6 digit slashdot ID? Were you a prominant person during saddams riegn allowed such privlidges?

well, according to the linux users journal, it sounds like it was. the article is here - you could have found it easily by reading the article.

additionally, it should be noticed that saudi arabia - a country that has consistently been in the top three worst regimes as far as human rights violations are concerned - has a lug as well.

I followed these instructions on the Linux Journal site to create a Fedora and RedHat 9 based live CD:

http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7233

Only sticking point was the initial partition. I tried with a loopback mounted ISO but there were permission problems. Then went to a NFS mounted share. It worked but required a second machine. Finally just stuck another drive inside and created a bunch of 700M partitions.

You are also an idiot, even though you have a good point. This background story tells us that X was initially released in 1986, and later XFree86 was released as a free implementation of X. That could very well have been the basis for the name, just as easily as the x86 that people tend to assume is the basis.

"I use KDE myself, and I haven't seen other projects use KDEs libraries. I'm not sure, but do KDE (or KDE afflicated) developers develop "external" libraries that is widely used?"

I use windowmaker, not kde, but because I have kde installed (including library), I have absolutely no problem using konqueror, quanta, kolf, kwhatever. Likewise I have gnome installed and have no trouble using most gnome apps. Interesting, as I'm not a huge fan of either kde or gnome as a desktop environment, but occasionally like some of the apps. konqueror is my man page viewer of choice, for example.

Perhaps one of the most interesting examples of kde code reuse in another context is Apple's Safari Browser which uses khtml .

This is not a religious argument; I'm not advocating that python is the one language you should use or anything like that. In fact, not having an "ideology" is one of python's major strengths.

If you're asking "why python", ESR has said it better than I ever could.

I'm yet another of those who experienced extremely small turnaround times for python programs. It took me a week, working part time (I estimate about 30 hours) totally, to release 1.0 of gretools, starting from scratch. I had not written a single line of python code before that, mind you.

Why python is great:

Its not a religion. It doesn't force its style of thinking on you. Functional programming, excellent string manipulation tools, classes, inheritance, exceptions, polymorphism, operating system integration, they're all available. This is python's biggest advantage. Whichever background you're coming from, you can very quickly become effective at python.

Incredibly compact code. This is largely a consequence of the previous point. Apart from that it is dynamically typed, and has lots of other cool features. Like doing away with braces for delimiting blocks. People who know nothing about the language flame it for using indentation, but I have never found it confusing, and it makes the code smaller far more readable.

A user-friendly programming language! You aren't going to believe this until you've actually programmed in python. Its got this amazing property that if you can express a thought in constant space mentally, then you can code it in a constant number of lines, most of the time in a single line. In other words, the abstractions of the programming language match the "natural" abstractions of programmers very closely. After just a couple of days I got so used to this that I began to "predict" language features intuitively. At one point I just knew there had to be a language construct for something I was trying to do, and found that it was the reduce function.

Simple syntax. Python manages to have all these features while retaining a very simple syntax, perhaps even simpler than C. This is a big plus, because it gets out of the way and Does What You Mean.

Convinced? Get started now!

I read your article, but I am not as worried as you are.

First, my credentials: I haven't run an organized study of spam, as you have, but I did set up a Bayesian filter, SpamProbe, on my mail server (and I wrote an article about it). I get about 150 spam messages per day, and I only see the ones that get past my Bayesian filter. So I have looked over dozens of spams to see why they fooled my filter. (My filter is about 95% effective, and once I had it trained, I haven't observed any false positives.)

Yes, if a spammer works carefully, he can craft a message that will have a better chance of slipping past a Bayesian filter. But my Bayesian filter is not 100% effective anyway; as long as I only have to manually handle 5-15 messages per day, I'd say the filter is working. So the question is not whether the spammers can ever slip a message past the filter; the question is whether the spammers can completely destroy the usefulness of Bayesian filters, as you fear.

Bayesian filters look at the whole message, and they can learn to recognize spam in unexpected ways. For example, HTML font tags that set large red letters are a good spam indicator. HTML font tags that set white-on-white text are another. So Bayesian filters will force spammers to change the format of their spam.

Most spammers want you to call a phone number or view a URL. Since the Bayesian filter will learn the phone numbers and URLs are spam flags, Bayesian filters will force spammers to keep setting up new phone numbers and servers.

The "from" addresses of my friends will quickly become good ham indicators, and that will be difficult for the spammers to exploit (since everyone has different friends).

Also, my understanding is that you cannot really "poison" a word for Bayesian filtering; all you can do is lessen its usefulness as a spam/ham indicator. If spammers use different hammy words for each spam, the poison's dosage will be diluted; while if they use the same hammy words for each spam, those words will then be a legitimate spam flag.

There probably are a few refinements that could be made to spam filters. I'd like to see a spam filter that, if there is both an HTML part and a plain text part, only checks the HTML. That way the spammers can include ham in the text part and it won't affect the filtering.

In summary, I am reasonably hopeful that there is no way for spammers to completely defeat Bayesian filtering. The best they can hope to do is to sneak some mildly-phrased messages by the filters.

P.S. I agree with you that the ultimate anti-spam measure would be a "for-pay" mail system. I envision a mail protocol that allows you to specify how much it costs to send you an email: you put your friends on the free list, and otherwise it costs 5 cents or whatever. If you are really famous you might raise the cost up to reduce the volume of email you receive. There should be a mechanism in place to quickly refund the costs, and friends should be identified with a digital signature, not by an easily forged string. Spam only works because it's so cheap to send many messages, so a 0.001% response rate is enough. At even 5 cents per message, spam wouldn't be cost-effective anymore. You would still get ads in the mail, but they would be less obnoxious and more carefully targeted. Send me an ad for Mexican Viagra and you won't get your 5 cents back, but send me an ad for something I actually want and I'll consider it.

steveha

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6887

See the Linux Journal article at http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6887

Now if only Toshiba managed to come up with a version of the software that runs on 802.11 WiFi handhelds like the e800/e805

Toshiba does not provide support for it's customers and even re-negs on advertising promises. Many people will no longer be buying from them - including me, my family and any corporate/educational group that I work for and have purchasing decision power with.

Now if only Toshiba managed to come up with a version of the software that runs on 802.11 WiFi handhelds like the e800/e805

Toshiba does not provide support for it's customers and even re-negs on advertising promises. Many people will no longer be buying from them - including me, my family and any corporate/educational group that I work for and have purchasing decision power with.

http://flightlinux.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Or by proxy Like these

I guess I've worked in the video production industry too long

Reading the rest of your post, I would tend to agree...

but most of the people I have been working with are switching to Macs or upgrading to G5's not because of hardware, but software and the total package.

Maybe in your company. But if that's what's happening in your company, then I would suggest you polish up that resume, and possibly take some training in free software apps.

It seems you haven't heard. Video production is going completely GNU/Linux on the backend, current Mac users are being tolerated on the front end for very technical graphic production, and everyone else is already switched, or in the process of being switched to GNU/Linux on the desktop for graphical work and everything else.

I'll put my openMosix/Debian GNU/Linux cluster of dirt cheap 1 GB+/- boxes up against the reviewed G5 box any day, as long as the jobs are run concurrently, like I normally run tasks, not consecutively like some benchmarks do. And I've been running this setup for many months now, it's not some twinkle in the eye of some slashdot dreamer.

replacing outlook... Linux Journal has a good article on kgroupware.

replacing outlook... Linux Journal has a good article on kgroupware.

wrong! (if you have a version more recent than 3.23.43b). Other constraints than FOREIGN KEY followed, or will follow shortly.

In general, constraints work best with the INNODB (new) table format than with ISAM (old format). This is because proper constraint handling depends on availability of rollback

Stored procedures are being implemented in our version 5.0 development tree.

They were talking about a particular type of stored procedures here (PL/SQL). However, you can write stored procedures in other languages, such as Java and also Perl, as has been described December's Linux Journal on page 84.

Online backup? Nope

Wrong. If you use INNODB tables, you can do an online backup (without disturbing current operations, and without setting any intrusive locks). Yes, it is a commercial tool, but we can hardly object to this, we are comparing to databases where the whole software is commercial!

reading a bogus whitepaper.

What do you mean by this. If you hit google, you'll see that the overwhelming majority of links agree that MySQL is superior to Microsoft's offering.

python is slower and requires more memory to do stuff than perl -- see http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/index2.shtml

Slower? Well, slower in some things. Faster in some. Averaging into a bit slower. But it's younger, and improving rapidly. Even that shootout is about 2.1, python is at version 2.3 right now, and probably lot faster already.

More memory? Eh. Well. From that same shootout (smaller is better):
Python mem rank avg: 14.
Perl mem rank avg: 15.

...and any language that uses whitespace as syntax is only ever going to attract a marginal following.

Wrong. You're just imposing your own preference (have you even tried it, or just repeating FUD told by others?) to everyone else as well. For a first hand account of someone who damn certainly knows his stuff, and was afraid of whitespace at first as well, read for example: this.

Air Traffic Control Software: Automated Radar Terminal System (ARTS). The Plain View displays (by Raytheon) in the early '70s had an anticipated lifetime of 1015 years; those in the centers today are now at least 10 years past this estimate.

These displays fail regularly--according to controllers and technicians. At each en route center, which may have 30 to 60 PVDs in operation, it is not unusual to replace two to four of these units a day. When a PVD goes dark, the controller at that station rushes to another screen and urges the controller there to alter his or her display to include aircraft previously tracked on the failed display.

PVDs slipping out of adjustment also cause the size and clarity of the alphanumeric type they display to vary--fuzzy type makes controllers confuse 3s and 8s, which can lead to errors, an Indianapolis controller told IEEE Spectrum. And the units themselves are unstable. Their aging ceramic connectors are brittle and falling apart. Insulation on the wires is brittle, too. The vibration caused in moving a display, as is necessary when a replacement must be brought in, often disables it when fragile connections are broken.

Meanwhile, the Host and ARTS computers that drive the displays are problematically obsolete as well. The Host computer computes radar tracks, maintains a database of flight plans, and issues safety warnings--such as a conflict alert, when two craft are in danger of violating separation standards, and a minimum safe altitude warning, when an aircraft is at risk of hitting terrain. It contains half a million lines of Jovial code and assembly language that was first installed in 1972 and ported from IBM 9020 onto IBM 3083 computers, starting in 1985.

But Host has at most only 16MB of RAM, a serious limitation. And it badly needs replacing. (The ARTS computers in the Tracons are also severely limited in memory, but those are scheduled for replacement.) "The Host software is our biggest problem," a controller from Chicago told Spectrum. "There are so many patches, no one knows how it works. We can't change anything; no one dares touch it, because if we break it, we're gone."

In the mid-'80s, a multibillion dollar effort was started to update both the en route centers and the Tracons by replacing their displays and computers with networked workstations. (Airport towers use feeds from Tracon computers for radar tracking of airborne craft; they use separate surface-monitoring equipment for aircraft on the pavement.) That 10-year effort failed and has, for the most part, been abandoned. Called the Advanced Automation System, the program was sunk by unrealistic specifications and human factors difficulties, among other problems. New efforts to help controllers and pilots are under way, but have yet to make an impact on the present system. Here's the rest of the story from MIT

If you look in the latest Linux Journal though you'll see that Linux has made inroads in this area.

See this article: Embedding Perl in MySQL
I did this on a test server -- definite geek factor here.
I'm not seeing any python links on google, but I'm sure someone will speak up if there are.

As anyone who follows linux polls would know, KDE generally is preferred over GNOME. The first two things I could come up with googling are:

1. Linux Journal's Annual Reader's Choice Awards. A quote from 2003's edition: With 44% of the votes, KDE is the winner for the sixth consecutive year. GNOME holds on to second place with 23% of the votes.

2. LinuxQuestions.org's Annual Awards, in wihch KDE also regularly beats GNOME (as far as I remember). This one is perhaps slightly more interesting since the site is meant for linux newbies.

As a last thought, there is probably a reason why all of the linux distributions made for the desktop (Lycoris, Xandros, Lindows, etc) use KDE. It has always been (IMHO) the more complete, integrated, and polished desktop -- the fact that it has had a usable file selector for years, and GNOME has just decided to try to fix theirs (although it doesn't seem to be much of an improvement) is just one example of why KDE is more inviting to average users.

On the usability front, here's a dot.kde.org article about a usability survey that found KDE and Windows XP to be comparable for the corporate desktop in terms of usability: http://dot.kde.org/1060717024/. A quote: The usability of Linux as a desktop system has been experienced as nearly equal to Windows XP. A couple of tasks were, in fact, easier and faster to solve on Linux.

As mentioned in the Linux Journal article, but oddly not in the Slashdot intro is this letter. Helping Iraqi citizens adopt Linux over the products of Bush's friend Gates is illegal and would be a good way to wind up in jail for promoting terrorism. The purpose of invading Iraq is to steal oil and make money for Bush's cronies, not help the people of Iraq. The chances of the Bush administration changing the law to subvert this purpose is nil. Sorry.

This is the article they wrote and submitted to Linux Journal:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6992

Read the Letter Silicon Valley Linux USer Group put together to the DOD.

Unbelievable, but apparently true

....sounds like Austin has a savvy fellow in the CIO spot.

How about a Linux Journal subscription? A year of geekiness in print would be ideal! Or for the behind the times geek how about 8 years of Linux Journal back issues on a searchable CD? http://store.linuxjournal.com/Merchant2/merchant.m v

• Rio Karma (20G) for day to day use, Rio Cali (256mb version) for the gym (Wow just did a currency conversion, and even with the exchange it's about $100CND cheaper to buy this in the states (assuming the $169USD pricetag seen on froogle.google.com)
• AOpen DRW4410 DVD Writer (at under $100 US it'd be cheaper than the above items :)
• Linux compatible Serial ATA card for my fileserver (the Silicon Graphics chipsets don't seem to do linux RAID, but according to some of the forum posts it is possible to get it working). This is just an interim solution until I upgrade the whole box and put in a motherboard with a SATA chip, so just looking for something that works :)
• A couple of big ass SATA hard drives to go with it.
• Aliens Quadrilogy DVD
• A USB keychain storage device... 64 or 128 megs of storage to keep important files safe. According to a recent Linux Journal article, they are the floppies for the new millenium.
• Canon Digital Rebel or...
• Pentax Digital *ist
• Add on bits for my Canon A70 Digital Camera
• Another nice shirt like I got from mom for my birthday
• $1,000,000
• A house that exactly meets what I want (and only costs $1)
• A subscription to Popular Photography Magazine
• A huge and over priced flat panel TV, ungodly expensive reciever, and speakers of such high quality that even the most freakish audiophiles will cry for mercy (this will go in the house I mentioned above).
• CDRs
• CDRWs
• DVDRs (to go with the DVD writer mentioned above)

• Rio Karma (20G) for day to day use, Rio Cali (256mb version) for the gym (Wow just did a currency conversion, and even with the exchange it's about $100CND cheaper to buy this in the states (assuming the $169USD pricetag seen on froogle.google.com)
• AOpen DRW4410 DVD Writer (at under $100 US it'd be cheaper than the above items :)
• Linux compatible Serial ATA card for my fileserver (the Silicon Graphics chipsets don't seem to do linux RAID, but according to some of the forum posts it is possible to get it working). This is just an interim solution until I upgrade the whole box and put in a motherboard with a SATA chip, so just looking for something that works :)
• A couple of big ass SATA hard drives to go with it.
• Aliens Quadrilogy DVD
• A USB keychain storage device... 64 or 128 megs of storage to keep important files safe. According to a recent Linux Journal article, they are the floppies for the new millenium.
• Canon Digital Rebel or...
• Pentax Digital *ist
• Add on bits for my Canon A70 Digital Camera
• Another nice shirt like I got from mom for my birthday
• $1,000,000
• A house that exactly meets what I want (and only costs $1)
• A subscription to Popular Photography Magazine
• A huge and over priced flat panel TV, ungodly expensive reciever, and speakers of such high quality that even the most freakish audiophiles will cry for mercy (this will go in the house I mentioned above).
• CDRs
• CDRWs
• DVDRs (to go with the DVD writer mentioned above)

See the Linux Journal article, and Press release.

See the Linux Journal article, and Press release.

I remember back in september, Tad Truex wrote an article about how he used linux to monitor the sump pump in his basement. He created a small device that made use of Lorentz Force, which he attached to it's power cord, and as he describes, "The voltage induced on the surface of the conductor in this direction is proportional to the magnetic field strength and therefore can be used to detect its strength.
Anyway, he then connected it via a db-9 serial port, and wrote a /proc filesystem driver to create something like
/proc/sump
Which read as either 0 or 1, depending upon weather the sump pump was on or not. Then on his webserver, he wrote some cgi to retrieve /proc/sump's value when a web page was requested, and used that to create a status report page. It was pretty neat, and while I know your problem is a little more complicated, there is a similar solution. It just involves different priciples, and I'm just a lowely programmer.
here is the orriginal article
-kyle

1.), regarding the Church's response to the printing of books: It was the printing part which made books a threat; books themselves predated the printing press by centuries. And, of course, written records of knowledge pre-dated the "book" format by a lot more -- scrolls, tablets, and wall inscriptions are all forms of written communication. No, it was not the books that were threatening to the Church: it was the printing press, which made it a lot harder for the Church to control the dissemination of knowledge. It is not surprising that the Reformation was underway within 100 years of Gutenberg's printing press (invented 1436, completed 1440); the printing press made it possible to create and disseminate heretical works much more widely, presenting a great challenge to the Church's authority.

Oh, and I'll admit that it was a bit disingenuous to claim that they didn't have classrooms; that was a rather feeble attempt at humor. In future I shall keep my jokes strictly to myself, to avoid confusing people.

2.) I did not blame a technology (TV, in that case) for poor pedagogy. I merely observed that it can be used in one of two ways (well or poorly), and provided an example from my own experience of one poor application. Perhaps I should have included an example of a good application, for balance; but offhand I can't think of a time when I was particularly impressed by the use of a TV in the classroom.

3.) I don't quite understand your argument. Furthermore, I think we actually agree on this point. I was arguing, first, that technology is not strictly necessary; and second, that it can be immensely valuable when used properly. It isn't strictly necessary: you could get by without it, as evidenced by the fact that people did get by with out it until very recently. That doesn't mean we shouldn't use technology in schools; just that we don't absolutely require it, as the original poster suggested.

In addition, I said that ". . . they [computers] should be a supplement, not a staple. There's plenty of time for more computer-centric education during the later years of education (eg ages 12 and up)." That would seem to be in line with your statement that ". . . a much more advanced set of problems can be solved and explained using technology AFTER basic fundamentals have been mastered." In brief, computers should be used in moderation, as a supplement to more basic skills, particularly in early education. How are we in disagreement here?

4.) I will concede you this point; I do not know enough about K-12 expenditures. As this guy pointed out already, with better data and much more politely.

I DO, however, know that the San Francisco Unified School District referred to in the article has recently experienced budget cuts because of the State of California's 1.7 billion dollar cut to the education budget, and that they are currently working on a "Master Technology Plan", which they hope ". . . may result in operational savings to recover the cost of technology investments by the District." They are planning public forums starting in February to get public input on ways to do that. At such a time, is it really unreasonable to suggest switching away from expensive proprietary solutions?

It may be that you're right, that Linux isn't ready for widespread desktop usage in K-12 schools. (Though this school and this one and this one an

Awhile back, someone made a visit to SCO, signed the NDA, and described their experience. If you read down far enough, the person reporting this inquired about the settlement between AT&T and BSD. SCO claims that parts of this agreement have gone unenforced. At this time, it was speculated by the author of the report that the various BSDs might be next in the line of fire. I suspect, unfortunately, that they might be right.

If this is the case, then all the talk about re-opening a case that closed nine years ago, and if the courts will permit it, isn't relevant. Instead, the case is about whether or not the BSDs are violating the agreement, instead of overturning or modifying the agreement.

Unfortunately, if parts of the agreement between AT&T and BSD haven't been enforced, then it's quite possible SCO could have a legitimate case. Some of the settlement reached is confidential, and as stated by the author, SCO declined to say what terms have not been enforced. So until SCO makes a bigger issue of it, there's really no way to speculate if SCO will win, or what the effect might be on the BSDs.

the Lindows Mobile PC they announced earlier:

Lindows Mobile PC

LinuxJournal just did a review of the machine itself in their latest issue and gave it pretty good marks.

They also have an entry on their website about uninstalling all the Lindows branded stuff and upgrading to Debian:

LinuxJournal: Customizing a Lindows MobilePC

...that clown who trademarked "Linux" way back