Mark R. Bowyer sent us a link to ZDNet UKs Linux History. It's all part of ZDNet UKs Linux Focus week. Its pretty cool that we've gotten this far guys.

We've got a couple of YALS (Yet Another Linux Story) from PCWeek to report. First off, John Dodge's column at this week is about Linux. Also, they have a Review of Extreme Linux online if you're curious.

Phil R. Jaenke wrote in to inform us that one hundred and fifth kernel release has officially made an appearance on the usual servers. He also commented that people should use mirrors more often, things are bogging down!

Mike Hicks wrote in to say that CNet Radio has wrapped up project Heresey and Brian Cooley and Dan Shafer have given their opinions. They're more or less positive, with reservations in all the places that we would expect. They also say they'll be revisiting Linux every few weeks to see what's up and coming. Quite cool.

Raistlinn wrote in to tell us that Dcg has joined the growing number of companies selling Beowulf based distributed computers. Just another place where Linux is gaining acceptance. But that's not the important part, Jerkweed wrote in to comment that Beowulf, as well as Becker's eth drivers have been pulled from Nasa servers. The (extremely unconfirmable) rumour is that cheap super computers might be "Munitions" so buy those Extreme Linux CDs asap (or at least upload code outside of the US before it is illegal *grin*) Update The Beowulf site is still alive. I'm assuming the munitions thing is just rumor unless someone can prove otherwise.

Patrick writes "Yahoo has reported that Xybernaut has just announced a rather cool new wearable computer. For $5k one can achieve true geekdom with a voice activated, headset micromonitor, 4gig hd and a P2 233 piece of headgear. Runs linux or any of the other x86 os's."

Well folks, the place that everyone links the word Linux to by default has received a fancy overhaul. Gone is the tacky yellow and blue, replaced with a much cleaner design. Glad to see it.

An anonymous read wrote in to "Just a quick reminder that Linux-Kongress has started, right on the heels of LinuxExpo! 3-5 June at the University of Cologne, Germany. Anyone on site giving reports? More info at the Linux Kongress website."

John Ello wrote in to tell us " Apparently Redhat included a 'redneck' dialect option in Redhat 5.1. " Ya know, this is the stuff that makes me happy to be running linux. Sorta like when I use sudo and get an error message like "This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.". Stuff like that just makes everything much more entertaining. It's the little things that make me happy I guess.

Techweb points out the number of large players that have recently joined the Linux community in its coverage of Corel openning its source code. But it tempers its enthusiasm quoting the nay-sayers who always seem to associate Open Source with dying companies.

I just finished scanning a few shots I took at the Linux Expo. Go look at them. I'll put more up soon, these are just the ones I got to first. I had a great time, and I'll probably put up a writeup soon. I'd also like to thank everyone for letting me photograph them.

Brad wrote in to plug the Linux Software Archive that they've got at Linux Central. The thing is $6, and has 4 CDs containing basically anything you could desire downloading in the next few months. Includes Commercial Apps (WordPerfect, VisualSlickedit etc) and other cool stuff (Gnome, KDE, VNC, Lesstif etc). If you're on a 28.8 connect (sigh) this may be a nice way to save you a few days download time *grin*.

karsten self wrote in to tell us LWN is running a bit saying that the LSB has been getting a lot of approval out at the expo. This is a Good Thing(tm) and I'm glad to see it.

Thomas Charron writes " Well, apperently Microsoft slowly creeps it's luminesent cloud over yet another mountain.. This Link reports that Microsoft will soon release Active Servers pages for many popular web servers, including Linux.. (Sigh) This is reminding me of a B rated movie where some blob eats and eats, and grows to eat everything.. Hrm.. Didn't the original ending to Little House of Horrors sound like this? Seriously, though, it's silly.. SSI and CGI is plenty good enough without Active Server Pages.. HEck, even Microsoft has stopped using them on THEIR OWN web site becouse it was bogging them down so bad.. "

Demon writes "Corel Corporation is extending its support and development commitment to the Linux operating system, currently being used by an estimated 7 million people worldwide. The award-winning software developer will release Corel® WordPerfect® 8 Personal and Server Editions for Linux this summer and plans to develop a suite of business applications for the Linux platform, More Info: link"

It's been quite a day folks. I decided that I will take a few minutes to give everyone a bit more details about the adventures that we're having out here. Hit the link below to read everything that I can think of that happened today that might have been interesting.

Cool stuff here folks... tons of cool people to chat with and cool toys to look at. Very much fun. The Corel folks are here showing off their NetWinder NC. It's so cute... seeing one only confirms my intsense desire to own one. Cobalt Micro is also here showing off their tiny little server. Yet another small monitorless computer that I really would like to own. By far the coolest machine is the various XTreme boxes. Paralogic has em From $6k to $60k, these bad boys run Linux, are the size of a refrigerator and, and clock in at up to 445 SPECint95's. Mommy? Can I have a super computer for christmas?

Joe Desbonnet writes "Photos from the Linux Expo are being uploaded to this location as we take them. "

JammerJJ sent in this update to our recent story about PCQuest. The May issue dedicated to Linux has come out, and hopefully it will continue to spread Linux to the Indian sub-continent. It's always nice to wake-up to good press.

Tim Macinta wrote in with a very simple question, that I never thought about before. He asks " are there any Linux centric companies which are publicly traded? I've spent several hours looking for one but the closest thing I've found is Netscape. If there are any, I'd like to help them out by buying a little of their stock. Of course this would probably help me out too because I think that this would be a good time to invest in such a company."