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jebba wrote in to tell us about a new Linux distro: Yellow Dog Linux. There will be two versions: a server edition and a personal edition, a trend which seems to becoming pretty popular. Both will be based on Red Hat/Linux PPC. If the web site is any indication, it will be very nice indeed. Update: Dan Burcaw wrote in to say they've updated their website since yesterday's post. They now have more info about the distro and pricing info, too.

J. Paul Reed writes "Posted to BugTraq this morning, this bill would make it illegal to reverse engineer software to find security holes; corporations and consulting firms would be barred from conducting real world tests of security software. This is what we like to call a "bad thing" (tm). "

J. Paul Reed sent us this article where you can read that a judge has declared DNS fees to be an illegal tax. There are some minor mistakes in the article (they quote the current price as being $30 for to years, and claim it has been this way since '95) but it's still kinda odd. On one hand, the govt has $23 million for the next generation of the Intenet, on the other hand, it may have been illegal for them to get that money in the first place. Personally I don't care if I get a refund on my domain name, I'd rather that money helped build a new net infrastructure, but I have a few more domains I'd love to register if they were free.