wesmills writes "ZDNet, that fine purvayor of well-balanced, highly informative Linux stories (BS mode OFF) has written a piece complaining that Linus isn't as accessible as he used to be. You wouldn't answer the phone, either, if you had 1000s of journalists asking the same question all day, every day, would you? " I'm in an odd position: As a pseudo journalist I sometimes need to get ahold of people in that capacity, but I also have to deal regularly with media types who just want a lame quote for their article. After you answer the same questions time and time again, it gets amazingly tedious (And I've been known to tell reporters to read the FAQ too ;) I'm amazed Linus lasted this long. I hope that the levels of protection he's put in place give him some well deserved privacy.

Thexder wrote to us with a curious piece on what RH should do with all it's new found wealth: buy SCO. It's a crazy idea, and gives me a headache when I try to analyze it, but the author does have some interesting points.

Anonymous Coward muttered this question in my ear: "Has anyone thought about approaching Digital to release FX!32 under an open source style license, so that people running Linux/Alpha can take x86 binaries and run them, the same as they can for Windows NT Alpha? What about making the FX!32 backend work on the other non x86 PCs, Sparc, PPC, ARM, etc? Is there a team working on a kernel module to do this? I think it could fall under the Binary format option. I think this would make Linux/some other CPU more attractive then Linux/x86. I use Linux x86 myself, but would like to use an Alpha or PowerPC, however apps like Real Player, Codewarrior, Word Perfect, Star Office, some of which I use, as far as I know, only exist for x86. "

Linus has blessed what could very well be the last kernel in the 2.0 series, 2.0.38. The small patch fixes a dangerous TCP/IP bug, and two other small bugs. Please use a local mirror (ftp.us.kernel.org for us folks in the US). Update: 08/26 07:25 by J : It seems that 2.2.12 and 2.3.15 have also been blessed by the holy penguin pee :)

SheldonYoung writes "Brad LaRonde and friends have Linux up and running on NEC MIPS Vr41xx palm-sized machines, such as the Casio E-100 and Vandem Clio. Those interested can grab the source and documentation from his Linux-MIPS Pages. "

Matt Welsh has written in to talk a bit about the future of a project that he is very familiar with. The LDP ^[?] has been essential to help newbies (and even experts) learn what they need on their quest to become gurus. Hit the link below to read what Matt has to say about where the project ought to head.

Stone writes "It's seems that Red Hat get a big competitor with Mandrake. Axa announces today an equity position in Mandrakesoft. Axa is the second world leader of assets management with 650 billion USD and the owner of DLJ who makes a lot's of Nasdaq IPOs." Thus it begins.

Phexro writes "Looks like Nick Petreley, IDG and the LinuxWorld gang have a neat idea- Open Books. They are soliciting the Linux community to help write "The Essential Linux", which will be written and edited completely(?) by the members of the Linux community. The finished work will be distributed under the terms of the IDG Books Open Content License." I'll probably volunteer; I'm already in the Open Source Writers Group. But will enough others participate to make it a viable project? (More below)

Base_16 writes "Panoramix, a new graphical installation for linux-mandrake, was released today. It nicely integrates the new Diskdrake partitioning tool with the rest of the installation to make setting up linux much easier. Go here to get more information. "

An anonymous reader wrote in to point out that the uclinux project has an interesting little device on its website. Its the size of simm and runs Linux. Costs about $175 and has chips for ether, an LCD panel, 2mb of flash RAM and 8 megs of DRAM. Very cute. Very little. Very cool.

Thanks to several readers who wrote to us with the news that Inprise apparently will be porting its Delphi development tool, and others to Linux. This comes on the heels of the recent survey of the Linux developer community.

Jonny Royale writes "Today's Suck has an interesting perspective on the Red Hat IPO, and the future of Linux in general. Warning in advance: It's not pretty. " Ouch-I think there's a lot of honesty in this article, particularly the attention to human nature. What do you folks think?

Kevin Remhof has submitted us a piece on an area of Linux that a lot of you might not be familiar with, but may wish to be: Linux and X-Ray Astronomy. Talks about some of the things you can do, as well as common applications to do them with. Check it out.

Threnody writes " Great article about Windows 2000 delay. Apparently Linux has grown from negligible in the '97 poll to 13% today. This is the latest results from IDC, the pre-eminent measuring company. They were measuring business usage. They also talk about the fact that many major organizations are not interested in rolling out Win2k right away, because of being burned before.Update: 08/19 02:08 by H :I've also been informed by a number of people that DevX is currently running a poll along much the same lines.

josepha48 writes "I just found out that SuSE 6.2 is released. Check out the latest details in English It has X 3.3.4 and kernel 2.2.10. " Release schedule looks like 18th for English, tomorrow for French, and Italian/Spanish on the 24th of August.

Lilly Tao writes "Here's an Atlantic Unbound essay which takes the concept of open source as an art form (prompted by Linux having won an art prize, Prix Ars Electronica) to partly answer and mostly pose the question "How far can the open source model go?" " I've long since abandoned the idea of Programming as Engineering and taken up the idea of Programming as Art. That theory explains why Slashdot is pretty, but slow anyway (rimshot).

Lawrence_Bird writes "Reuters put a piece out overnite commenting on the use of Linux in web appliances. It has a few quotes from Linus and comments specifically on TiVo Inc. " Comments on the RH IPO, Linux on Merced, and a few other bits.

Having finally flown back home, recovered from the gain/loss of sleep, time zones, and of course, the obligatory luggage being lost, we're trying to wrap-up the latest installment of LinuxWorld. If you are interested in some commentary and stories coming out of LWCE, click below.

Bill Clarke wrote to us about WholeLinux system they unveiled at LinuxWorld. From a "cheap" CD-ROM even, they can install Red Hat Linux in 4 minutes, plus another 2 for things like Apache, Sendmail etc. Heh-run around with one of these things at your office/school. See how long it takes for the NT people to reinstall. *grin*

Wired News has an enjoyable report of the Linuxbierwanderung (Linux Beer Hike). It sounds like it was a wonderful event, and you can't beat the admission (free)! I almost feel stupid for missing out on this, even if I don't drink. As a bonus, they even got to see the eclipse.