Peace, love and an $18,000 bill for IBM, May 16, 2001

A 20-year-old Chicago man today admitted spray painting IBM Corp. advertising symbols on a Lincoln Park sidewalk and was sentenced to a year of supervision and 30 hours of community service.

Additionally, IBM said today it has paid the city more than $18,000 to cover the cost of removing the "peace, love and Linux" ads from 105 sidewalks in the Lincoln Park, Hyde Park, Wicker Park and Lakeview neighborhoods.

Rekall beta 2 is now available. The big change is that it is now packaged and tested on a large number of distributions so installing and using it should be much easier.

System administrators worldwide reported signs Wednesday that another self-spreading program--or worm--had started to infect Linux systems.

This worm appears to be different, however: Dubbed the Cheese worm, the program is basically a self-spreading patch. It enters servers that have already have been compromised by a previous bit of malicious code--the 3-month-old 1i0n worm--and closes the back door behind it, adding security to the system.

Consumer-electronics maker Nokia announced on Wednesday that it had teamed up with Linux gaming company Loki Software to strengthen its initiative to build an open-source home-entertainment platform.

The partnership comes two days after Nokia announced it would sponsor an effort to draw developers to its Open-Standards Terminal project, a blueprint for a home-entertainment system based on Linux.

The father of Linux, Linus Torvalds, has told silicon.com he thinks arch-rival Microsoft should not be split up.

"I would find it interesting if it gets split up. But on the other hand, I am not sure splitting up Microsoft is a good idea. Some fear of the law is a good thing when it comes to Microsoft."

IBM Wednesday said that that its PowerPC-based set-top box controllers will support Linux and outlined its next generation of set-top silicon.

Specifically, the company said it will work with MontaVista Software, Inc. to make that company's Hard Hat Linux operating system compatible with its set-top box controller. The company said one European vendor, Netgem, already has plans to develop a new software platform using IBM's controllers and Linux.

Eazel may be gone, but Eazel's contributions will not be erased so easily. As Havoc Pennington, a Red Hat developer, declared to the gnome-hackers mailing list: "The nice thing about free software is that you can only add to it, it never goes away, so its forward progress has a kind of inevitability."

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