assimilated writes "In the April 26th issue of Computerworld, president and CEO of SCO made a few well-put comments about the Linux "religion". I think he was right on. A legitimate vendor speaks out... Read the article to get fussy. " Hehe-I had no idea I was working for the Catholic Church. Does that mean I can't get married after all?

Dan Yocum (Hi Dan!) writes "Well, since Comdex is over and there isn't much threat of me getting whacked by their mob, I guess I can point people to a report of the "Linus at Fermilab" event, written up by Steven Adlerif they're interested. A pretty complete transcript of the event is included. The event was pretty technical and the report was written by a nuclear physicist, but it's still a pretty good read. " Update: 04/26 11:14 by H :Steve sent an update to let people take a look at his Comdex 99 update.

The Atlanta Linux Showcase folks have put out their annual CFP (call for papers). They are looking for papers 1500-5000 words, with the corresponding talk being about an hour long. This year's Showcase is being held in conjunction with a USENIX tutorial session from October 12th to the 16th. I know I'll be there.

Jan Kautz wrote in to tell us that Red Hat 6.0 has begun appearing on the mirrors, so all you mad hatters can cruise on it, avoid the traffic, and download the latest.

Richard Finney sent us a Lengthy article on Red Hat. It's called 'Inside Red hat's Bunker'. There's a trip to their offices, articles about growth and interviews with Bob Young. Pretty impressive.

Anonymous Bastard writes "There's an article in today's Chicago Tribune suggesting that the effort being put into the Linux operating system would be better spent improving Microsoft's software. The author says that Linux is trying to reinvent the wheel. Linux isn't a waste of time, is it? " Oh my.

Marc Merlin writes "After Red Hat has been called the next microsoft by several, and after some people saying that Red Hat has not reason to follow the LSB (Linux Standards Base), this Linuxworld article should hopefully give a better view of the situation, and it also gives a nice history of the LSB "

fruviad sent us a link to a story over at news.com talking about Red Hat's New COO that will be starting Monday, and talks about unconfirmed IPO rumors for what they call the "Darling of the Linux world".

Scott writes "Just got done reading this article over at C|Net, which claims to answer the 10 most frequently ansked Linux questions. Noticed lots of links to various HOWTO's, and a few to the LDP. Overall, it seems someone actually made an effort with this one. "

theGEEK writes "Techweb has "Your Complete Guide to Linux Distributions" - it's a fairly large article aimed at corporate types for integrating Linux into the company. " Covers all the biggies and some of the minors more geared towards the suits.

Martin Bialasinski wrote in to send us a press release from Corel which says that future their Linux upcoming Distribution will be based on Debian (Yay!) and KDE.

Richard Finney wrote in to send us a Yahoo/ZD article entitled Linux hamstrung by lack of standards? It mostly revolves around the Comdex stuff from monday, but it has a few choice quotes, especially Larry Augustin predicting that Linux will supplant NT in the server market this year, comments about how Linux is growing in the corporate world, and a little bit about the standards thing. Its odd that they chose that title when the artice really doesn't spend much time on the subject.

James Morris writes "A story at Newswire reports that SCO CEO Doug Michels considers Red Hat selling Linux to be 'a Fraud' because it was developed freely. Sounds like he forgot his medication again. " I suppose it's an interesting point-but I think the angle SCO takes is a probably a wee bit different.

datazone asks: "I have a particular network device, that is currently not supported, however the manufacturer gave me a precompiled module from a 2.0.33 system. They have no plans of releasing the source or creating new modules, it was only by numerous messages that I got my hands on these. The only problem is that i use the 2.2.4 kernel and it will not allow me to load these modules. I was wondering if anyone knew a way around this. I need to get these modules loaded, without having to use an old kernel. Anyone have any information on this?"

Yet Another Anonymous Coward asks this worthwhile question which even I don't have a ready answer to: "It seems to me that a growing number of people within the Linux community are starting to fear and loathe Red Hat Software. I read that article about the Red Hat backlash and I often see comments here on Slashdot that make disparaging remarks against them. I'm curious: has Red Hat actually done anything that warrants this type of reaction? Or are people just getting paranoid about what Red Hat has the potential to do? No, I'm not a Red Hat lacky, I'd just like to illuminate a potentially irrational paranoia within the community." So what do you all think?

GnuGrendel sent us a News.com Story about Red Hat 6.0. Scheduled to be on shelves on May 10, it ought to be announced on Monday. Supposedly more expensive for the box, but still free for download (of course). Oh, and both KDE & GNOME.

tomsky sent us more good news from the world of Commercial Support for Linux. Hewlett-Packard Company today announced the availability of HP Linux support services. Another source of 24/7 support for Linux, from another long term player no less.

Dark Fiber writes "The AGE newspaper has a big article (great big 3 page spread) on Linux that is very interesting. Lotta questions, Lotta answers." One of the better mainstream articles- it gets distributions right, covers the GNU/Linux connection, and more.

i0n wrote in to send us a Chicago Tribune article about Linus and Bill at Comdex. Has anyone rummaged up transcripts of either speech? I've seen several articles on each, but no transcripts. Update: 04/20 02:07 by CT : Knish sent us a PC Week Story on the keynotes. Update: 04/20 03:17 by CT : Ign0rance sent us Bill's Speech. Update: 04/20 03:34 by CT : BitMan sent us an MSNBC article.

Eric S. Johansson sent us a discussion document he's written about Linux and handicap access. I've included the full text below (with permission). Given the way my wrists have felt lately, this is something that really makes me think. What do you folks-what's the work being done for handicap access? For everything from RSI to vision impairment, I think this will become more important.