Fict sent us a link to Linuxapps.com, another site aiming to organize the amazing number of applications available for everyone's favorite free OS written by a guy from Finland. This site has a lot of potential (as does each of the dozen sites that have popped up recently providing similiar services). It would be great if these guys could all work together and create a couple of definitive lists instead of a dozen decent lists.

Carlie Fairchild sent us a link to SSC's Open Systems Products Directory . Next, Sean Leach sent us a link to A PlanetQuake/Linux Article. Third Joe Pranevich sent us a link to his Linux Q&A site. He's collecting FAQs to provide a database of helpful information for Linux Users. He's seeking anyone interested in helping. Finally we have another Linux help site sent in by Jason James. This site is seeking folks willing to help field technical questions for users.

Alexandre wrote in to tell us that Jaques Gelina will be speaking at the Linux-Quebec UG tonight at 7pm to talk about LinuxConf- which will be included in RH5.1. You can read more at the LQUG Homepage (which seems to be down at the moment).

Yesterday Red Hat Software announced the $29.95 parallel supercomputer. This CD-ROM is the result of the a collaboration between NASA, Red Hat and a number of research centers. Extreme Linux (some of you will know it as "The Beowulf Project") is all the software you need (with source code, of course) to cluster several computers and create your own giant parallel processing unit. For more information on this, zap to the press release.

JeffL sent us a link to Builder.com where you can read Dan Schafer's latest revelation about Linux:It doesn't have GUI web tools. I don't see it as a huge problem (see Slashdot? I use vim5, and vim5 alone :) but it is definately a problem for newbies. NS Composer just doesn't cut it most of the time, and there aren't any other real options.

Eugenio Sanchez has written an editorial on what he thinks about Corel's recent announcements relating to Linux. Specifically, He talks about how the NetWinder is the first "Linux Computer" and why this is important. Interesting reading.

Linus "Mr. Universe" Torvalds, put Linux 2.1.101 right where it belongs. Updates this kernel include documentation updates, MAJOR ARM, m68k, MIPS, PowerPC, SPARC, and SPARC 64 updates, as well as Acorn driver updates, RAID updates, Macintosh-specific updates, Sparc driver updates (including audio), and the tons of include file updates. That was a mouthful. Are we sure it's almost 2.2.0 time?

The Great Linux Experiment. The guys over at C|Net's Builder.Com are entering week 2 of Project Heresy. The technical guys over there are playing with Linux to test its viability as a real world OS. I have no doubts they'll catch some problems, but I know they'll be pleasantly surprised. Some RealAudio over there, too. Thanks to Marc Ewing for letting the world know.

Chris Tyler writes "The Portland Group has announced plans to develop parallelizing compilers for Linux on IA-64 (i.e., the next generation of Linux Beowolf clusters using Merced processors). Corel thin clients on the low end, the next generation of supercomputers on the other... looks Linux has got the whole spectrum covered! "

Larry Pisani wrote in to tell everyone to check out news.com. They are running some major stuff on all the recent happenings in the Linux world. Check it out.

Roy Stogner asked me to tell everyone that The Linux Web Map has moved to a new location. TLWM is another site tracking urls related to Linux. The nice thing is Roy's descriptions of the sites in the database. Quite helpful information in many cases. Anyway, update those bookmarks (and if you've never visited, check it out)

Per Wigren writes " This article on O'Reilly is from April, but I've not seen it on Slashdot before and it's a really great article about Linux running on so many architectures... "

Linus, being the generous man he is, uploaded Linux 2.1.100 to the usual place. An 859k uncompressed patch, it contains mainly IPNG updates, many header file updates, ext2fs updates, and countless other small changes, including tons of driver updates.

Corel has announced that they are going to support Linux, by porting all their apps, and opening up the development on their Linux based NetWinder NC. I'm pleased to see Corel throwing its weight behind Linux- the comments they made are amazingly positive, they really are committing themselves to Linux in a quite big way. Very cool. I'm quite excited. This is almost the coolest thing they could do. A log is available of the announcement.

Puffin writes "Some friends of mine at the EngSoc Project at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada will be in the Corel announcement with a notebook and will be relaying live details as they are announced on LinuxNet IRC (#Corel on irc.cabi.net or linux.mit.edu). It starts at 7pm EDT, 2am GMT. More details are at here. " No matter what the announcement, I'm excited to see Corel joining the growing list of companies that are formally willing to support Open Source. I don't expect an announcement as exciting as Mozilla, but I expect it's going to be cool. Update Everyone should be in #corel intead of #linux on LinuxNET this evening. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone there at 7pm.

Stan Seibert has written a piece addressing a very key issue in the Linux community. In the beginning there was Linus. Back then, 100% of the users contributed to Linux. As it grew, the percentage of programmers dropped as the number of 'end users' grew. This will only continue as Linux grows. This is great because it means that proves that Linux is more than just a hacker's OS. But the growing number of users unable to actively contribute puts more pressure on developers (email pleas for help, bugs discovered, feature requests etc). The Linux community needs to adapt to this in order to succeed. Hit the link below and read what Stan has to say about it.

Jason Boyles sent us A Link to ComputerWorld Hong Kong where you can read about Linux's use over there. It's a fairly positive piece- although it is a week old I figured I'd still run it. It touches on a lot of the key issues in a way that you don't see very often. Not an essential read for the hardcore, but it may be the sort of article you can forward to the PHB (Pointy Haired Boss) if you've been discussing the possibility of using Linux somewhere in the office.

Matthew Miller writes "ZDNet's 'InfoBeads' has an article about server hardware and software used at ISPs. They show Linux at 26.1%, and have a few interesting-to-hear-from-the-mainstream comments. " I wouldn't have guessed that high- I just assumed my immediatecircle of ISP Linux running friends were a more thinly scattered bunch.

Ok, I'm warning everyone right up front that this is the sort of editorial that might raise a lot of eyebrows, and might start tempers going. Kevin Forge has written a piece on the Crusher App- an application that is superior to its rivals. Specifically, he talks about the Crusher App, and why Oracle is staying away from Linux. What Kevin suggests strikes me as quite possible, not necessarily with Oracle, but with other companies as well, and that's why I'm posting it. Its a major obstacle for Open Source to overcome. Read Kevin's bit, and let's hear what you have to say.

ABeZ has written an editorial on a topic that is very dear to my heart these days- the Evils of Advocacy. Sometimes Linux users go to far in their efforts to support their idealizes free universe, and that very advocacy is what is preventing Linux from being the Mainstream Alternative that we know it can be. My biggest fear for Slashdot is that it is amplifying the problem instead of helping. Hit the link below to read ABeZ's words on the topic. Its a bit rough, but its important to read.