Continuing the stream of good press on Linux, Techweb is carrying an article about the benefits of Linux. Thanks to talon for pointing this one out.

Freshmeat is carrying an editorial by Ian Nandhra of NC-Labs, one of the founders of the LSA (=XYZ). He chides slashdot readers but does not address their main concern: the notion that the LSA will own IP, and that the definition of LSA standards is not truely open to all (LSA can refuse to renew a membership), as is traditional in Linux. He does not seem to realise that many readers agree that a standard is necessary to maintain the diversity of Linux distributions -- but neither at the price of diversity nor at the price of abandonning open methods.

dan peterson writes "Our machine, happy.digitaldune.net, is a widely used machine on the internet. we help debian people with cvs and with the debian-doc project. the power went out today, and now our machine is telling us the partition table for /dev/hdc1 (/home! ack!) is bad. fsck tells us: "attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/hdc1". acan you or anyone help us out on this? this drive has 5.5G of our life on it! :)"

Eric Harlow writes "The story is listed about a "NT 5.0 reality check" story. You know it's getting mainstream when CNN writes about it." Forbes. CNN. PBS. The Wall Street Journal. Excellent.

Soh Kam Yung writes "IEEE Software has put out a call for articles on Linux to be published in the January issue of IEEE Software magazine. See the call for articles (at linux resources) for more information on what kind of materials they want. "

With all the hostility and sadness in the world today, how about something a little cheery? Alan Cox sent us this link where you can read about a beowulf cluster built for no cost out of donated 486s. The article has pictures that'll make ya smile.

Chris Farris writes "As per popular request from /.errs, the dates our speakers will be speaking at the Atlanta Linux Showcase have been posted to The Website . "

Michael Bacarella wrote in with the first essay on Linux Standards. I've got several more of these left to post today, and I'll continue to post them as I have time.

Rob Kennedy of Linux-HOWTO has some info on his site about what could possibly be the first real trademark issue surrounding 'Linux'. Update Alan Cox wrote in to say "Neither LI nor Linus sent anyone anything stopping them using the trademark they like other people have got a gentle reminder that Linux(R) is a trademark of Linus Torvalds, and affirming their right to use the trademark for Linux stuff."

Crippler writes "The world-famous kernel hackers from Yonder Way that brought you many great GUI utilities for OS/2 and NT have now brought the much-needed Standard Linux Association to dominate all popular distributions and enforce our will upon everyone who won't cough up the bucks to earn a voting seat (which is still meaningless... see site for more details). "

GrimSpring writes "Microsofts component model COM is now available for Linux. You can download Software AG's EntireX DCOM for free from here after registering with them. The package is pretty huge, expect to download 3,1 MB for the runtime environment and 6,7 MB for the SDK. "

Denali writes "Linux version 2.1.117 was announced on the kernel-announce news list. It is available on ftp.kernel.org right now. " Go snag it if you're into that sort of thing. I'll be here when you get back.

The latest release from the debian-announce mailing list says that Debian has announced that they are working on an ARM port of their distribution. This will allow those folks lucky enough to own those Netwinders to run Debian as well as the RH4.2 that they are currently shipping with.

Aron Hsiao sent us a link to a Mining Co article on the LSA. ZDNet also has another story on the same topic. This one talksd about the division in the Linux community over the issue. Personally, I think the world has spoken and the LSA will be passed up in favor of Linux Compatibility Standards Project, and open collaberation between Red Hat and Debian. Update Michael McLagan of the LSA wrote back in to make this statement. Click on to read it.

Rob writes "We have a great Linux story in Network World today. Lots of examples of Linux making inroads in corporate networks. Fairly well written, with a low FUD level, save for the "support" issue (which te author eventually does get right). The print edition had a box with a "how to pronounce Linux" blurb. Luckily the "we don't care what you call it as long as you use it" argument wins here. Remember: pronounciation flamage is reserved for the sub-13 year old demographic only!)"

It's been a while, but we have brand new development kernel: 2.1.116. You can read Linus' comments on this one at LinuxHQ and you'll find a summary of the updates at the Cutting Edge Linux site.

I'm getting confused keeping up with all these, but I'm assuming the various groups will sort out who is doing what. Anyway, Several folks have written in about the Linux Standards Association that has been created to help standardize Linux. Click the link to read the official release.

Matt posted a Quicktime Clip of the Fry's Linux commercial that we mentioned on these pages yesterday. It's a back to school ad, featuring a printer, a mac CD-ROM drive, and RH5.1 Linux. Update Sorry Matt! The Slashdot Effect caused him to smash his ISPs bandwidth limit. The link has been updated to a new location that should be safe.

Noumena writes "Looks like the Linux Documentation Project has undergone a nice little facelift. Looks pretty good... " Is it just me or are a lot of the HOWTOs beginning to look a bit aged? Perhaps that's something that the non-programmer Linux users could start toying with. A lot of you guys email and complain that you can't code so you can't contribute. This might work.

lc writes "This article in LAN Times basically tells about Linux and what it is, and how its stability and speed are why NT professionals are switching to Linux. It also goes on to tell about the software companies that recently stated that they're supporting Linux such as IBM, Oracle, Informix Corp, and Netscape. Cover story too..."
As well, PC Week is running a good review of Caldera Netware, and tying Linux into x-nets.