VA LINUX YET ANOTHER DOT-BOMB CASUALTY VA Linux Systems, which set a Wall Street record by increasing its stock price 700 percent upon its 1999 IPO, is quitting computer hardware and laying off 35 percent of its staff. That's a reversal of fortune for CEO Larry Augustin, who as a Stanford grad student in 1993 started bundling the open-source OS into white-box PCs and PC servers. http://update.techweb.com/cgi-bin4/flo?y=eD2o0BDOZa0H30PTG0As