l2b writes "The Standish Group has an interesting article which they talk about the hype surrounding Linux. It goes on to predict division in the Linux ranks. Worth a read, or perhaps entering the I Bet the Farm on Linux Contest. "

Here's a followup to an article we did earlier on video converencing. Dave Dash and another nameless submittor both wish to know if 3Com's Big Picture videoconferencing can work under Linux. If it does work, Dave also wants to know whether whatever software necessary will also work with NetMeeting users. Any takers?

Owain Vaughan writes "Mindcraft's excuse for their results when comparing highly tuned NT versus vanilla Linux was that there was no central source of Linux Tuning information. Well there is now. Please submit all the Linux tuning articles you can get hold of to root@vaughan.com"

Cpt_Kirks writes "The creator of the Sinclair ^[?] computers in the UK is now working on a cheap, portable Linux box." Nifty seeing this on wired with some comments about the inventor himself.

elsewhere sent us Linux gushes savings for oil giant where you can read about the 32 node beowulf cluster being used by an oil company to replace IBM super computers.

An anonymous reader writes " It's official now. Kleiner Perkins has blessed the Linux movement. Nobody will ever be fired for deploying Linux. " Kleiner Perkins is one of the VCs behind Amazon and Netscape.

Scott Johnson writes "This Wednesday at 2pm, EDT, ABC News will be having an online chat with Linus Torvalds. This should be very interesting compared to some of their previous guests... :-) "

Yes, it's YALC - Yet Another Linux Conference. This time, it's in the Great White North. Andrew J. Hutton is organizing the Ottawa Linux Symposium (if that link doesn't work, try this one), a smaller conference, aimed more towards developers than the casual user. Talks include a QoS tutorial, and a keynote by Alan Cox. Andrew asked me to reiterate that this is a "conference and party, not a trade show".

Drizzeth writes "Today S.u.S.E. Linux 6.1 will be released, this is what's new: Kernel 2.2.5, XFree86TM 3.3.3.1, Support for all 3Dfx cards: Voodoo I + II (accelerated) Voodoo Rush (accelerated) Voodoo Banshee / Voodoo III (beta), KDE 1.1 with koffice, GNOME 1.0, Ghostscript 5.10, ijb (non-cacheing HTTP proxy server that filters contents as described in the configuration files), freeamp (MP3-Player), netbeans (Cross-plattform Java IDE, Demo) And lots of updates."

Lakini writes "I'd just like everyone to know that LinuxGames has launched a new site design and some of the documentation has been updated also. " It's so excellent to see that Linux has enough news to support an active site like this. With Q3, Civ, and rumors of so much more, its great to see that Linux is almost a viable gaming platform.

Anthony Fuentes writes "You can pre-order the GPL Redhat 6.0 CD at LSL for $0.00. " This looks legit- shipping looks like about $8 for UPS, but it does appear to be a free CD, so if you aren't blessed with a T1, check this out.

tknockers writes "News.com has a story about how Linus describes Linux as being "fun". He even goes on to say that in 150 years our lives will only be motivated by fear of boredom. "

CaNeS was the first of many to write in and tell us that Creative Labs now has a beta driver for the Sound Blaster Live! available on their ftp site. Alas, they are only binaries, but its a start.

Mike_Miller writes "In a recent interview with ESR in BusinessWeek, ESR calculates that, in 5 years, there will be 750 million Linux users (a conservative estimate). Wouldn't that be great!?! " I think one of my favorite parts is the title: "I want to live in a world where software doesn't stink." But this number should be fairly easy to hit-my cloning project has been doing quite well.

AshNazg writes "The Internet Operating System Counter project has published results for April 1999. This is very important because it's one of the few ways of reliably counting Linux hosts. Linux is show to be the leading OS in the survey with 31.3%. All Windows versions combined account only for 24.3% "

PowrSurge writes "CNN as a nice article on Linux's Desktop experience not being the Windows experience. It's worth reading. " It's Nick Petreley writing, which explains the fact that they actually have a clue as to what theya re talking about. But it's always a good thing to explain in a mainstream audience why networked computing is good, and why X is good.

MazMart was the first to report that a new stable kernel. Linus decided to name it 2.2.7- a surprise move that enraged and shocked, but since it was the next available digit we shouldn't be all that surprised. Now if I only I had a T1- hemos would kill me if I seized control of the ISDN for something so selfish as as kernel.

Lazzaro wrote in with the most exciting thing I've seen all day: A TechWeb article about VA (Research) buying Linux Hardware Solutions and mandrake's company, Enlightened Solutions. It goes on to say VA will regroup into three separate groups: an apparently RHAD-like development division, a web unit for Linux.com, and a systems group.

Quite a number of people wrote in to alert us to the Salon story about the Mindcraft survey. Andrew Leonard, does a great job of tracing the trail, including the information about how Mindcraft is asking for help from Linus, but is not apparently giving him the information that he needs. Ah, the joys of industry. Mindcraft has agred to re-do the tests, with Linus' help, as aforementioned, but is continuing to be...less then forthcoming about the tests. Meanwhile, Microsoft is trumpeting the original study.

Tomas wrote over to remind us about Dell's announcement that they will be doing factory-installation of RH 6.0 on select "Red-Hat" certified configurations of PowerEdge Severs, Precision Workstations and OptiPlex desktop machines. Dell has been flirting with a while-this looks like an engagement ring.