Migrant Programmer writes "Opera Software has finally announced a prototype of Opera for Linux. It will be shown at the Expo this week.. a speedy, efficient browser for a speedy, efficient operating system. Check their news page and the Project Magic page for more information. "

Anonymous Coward writes "Slink's release has been delayed one week due to a problem with dpkg. Dpkg can fail when the locale is set to a non-default setting. Here's the news release. " Those nice guys over at Debian are actually right next to us in Boothland. Anyway, they're saying that they just want to be sure about upgrading, and working with folks with laptops. Alright, all of you who keep e-mailing me-I know this was annouced before. But I figured we'd do something for the Debian guys, and assure everyone it's not a big deal, and the reasons.

selanna writes "In The Journal of Electronic Publishing (March, 1999 : Volume 4, Issue 3) Red Hat's Bob Young writes about "How Red Hat Software Stumbled across a New Economic Model and Helped Improve an Industry". Looking at it, it reads much like the Young article in Open Sources.

An an anonymous reader linked us to Quinn and Mark's LinuxWorld Page which among other things, features several pictures from the Cafe Babylon Slashdot party on monday, tons of pictures from the floor, and more. Definitely worth a read. I'm still hoping to have a chance to write a real report, but our booth seems to be a circus. I haven't even had enough time to wander around and collect my share of the free booty.

C|Net Radio is at Linuxworld Expo, and they have now the keynotes in Real Audio. First is Dr. Michael Cowpland, President & CEO, Corel Corporation, who talks about Wine and Quattro, Word Perfect, and the Second is Mark Jarvis, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, Oracle, who speaks about Oracle 8i and Linux. The third Real Audio clip will be Linus speaking about Linux on past, present and future and it will be at 6:30 PM (clip will be posted a bit later, and information can be found here. I hope ZDNet will have clips with higher sound quality (and maybe Video), but currently they don't have anything yet (you can check it here for updates). Enjoy. Update: 03/03 12:08 by CT : Linus also broke the keynote attendance record- it was Steve Jobs with 6,000. Linus had 7,000.

abcess writes "Here's a link to the story. link It seems to me like they're starting to try the same stuff they did when other OSes started challenging MS, saying good stuff about them, but then saying, 'but they really have no chance'. "

An anonymous reader wrote in to say that Phil Karn has posted a patch to Linux 2.2.2 that will disable the PSN. He says "I'm hoping that this patch (or equivalent) will soon make it into the standard Linux kernel so as to dissuade any application vendors who might be tempted to use the serial number misfeature."

Oracle will announce today Oracle 8i for Linux. It will be available within 60 days. They are also giving away 20,000 copies of an "early access CD" for the people who will register. RedHat will be showing a new portal this week (it's not available yet) which will include "everything that a Linux user need". Netscape will announce today the delivery of preview releases of Directory and Messanger servers for Linux.

At 00:00:00AM UTC, (7PM EST, and 4PM PST for you lucky bastards at LWCE) Debian will release Debian 2.1, codenamed "Slink". Slink has been frozen for four months, and was almost skipped. Right now, we are celebrating the release on irc.openprojects.net, #debian. Last time we had over 300 people in one channel, and had an incredible amount of fun. Order CDs and check out the party HQ at netgod.net. Be there or be square! Update: 03/02 06:47 by J : Looks as though the release has been delayed another week. An announcement should be on the web site soon.

Yuri Kiryanov writes "Elbrus, the maker of the E2K processor, has released details from their recent Press Conference. The highlights are that they have a Native Linux Kernel 2.0.34 running on a multilevel simulation model (including Verilog level RTL). Their native compiler achieves 8.5 FPU instructions per cycle. The E2K has SMP Built-in, should have Merced compatibility and only loses 20-30% speed when compiling foreign instruction sets with respect to the E2K's native performance." Note: the site is pretty slow so be patient. It's now in English and will soon post more E2K info.

kernel was the first to tell us that Linux.com has some content. You can also read a Press Release. The most notable piece of information is that the site will be managed by Trae McCombs (Slashdot author, Themes.org guy, and VA Employee). He will be slave to a board of directors that will hopefully help make sure that Linux.com does in fact fulfill what it should: support the community). The board of directors includes me, scoop, mandrake, Chris DiBona, Nick Petreley, and representatives from Oracle and SGI.

The Mosix people are now looking into the Linux GPL issue. Since it was Linus and the other core kernel developers who gave the binary module dispensation (binary modules may be inserted into the kernel as long as they do not require kernel modifications of their own) it seems odd they are talking to the FSF about this. But at least this is a move in the right direction.

Sean kennedy sent us a link to an article over at CNN which is a brief Preview of LinuxWorld. Talks a bit about (and LinuxPPC porting) as well as Corel and Oracle.

Ransom Love from Caldera has published a positional paper about Linux Standard Base and what he thinks about if the Linux community won't adopt it. I think it's a "must read" (thanks to Linux Weekly News). Update: 03/01 03:23 by S : Seems like that LSB needs a boost: now Intel is talking of setting up a new initiative... (see half way down the page)

Mithrandir sent us a link to a new.com article which hits on the Intel investment, but also reveals that VA Research has acquired the Linux.com domain.

Fionn tells us that German computer magazine c't is reporting that Altavista's German Server (in Germany) runs Red Hat Linux instead of Digital Unix as the US front-end server does. Netcraft confirms the story.

Peter Neves writes " There is a Linux story on the very front page of the MSNBC Technology Section, "the front slide" as they call it, on why Linux should be the OS running your server. While the story gives a technical overview on the features and performance of several distributions in comparison to NT, the summary says that Linux is not capable of "Competing with the 800 pound Gorilla" of the MS Marketing and distribtution channels. "

Glen Raphael submitted this odd question a while ago: "Suppose I have a test tool running under Linux in an environment where the power is expected to die often and for long periods of time without any warning (and buying a UPS isn't an option). How can I make it safe to just turn off the power to the PC running Linux without properly shutting down?" So what is one to do when they want to run a Linux box and they can't trust their outlet?

Miguel de Icaza writes "The people that did the MOSIX cluster system have now made a port for Linux. But they do not provide all the source code of their work. They only provide a binary kernel module which allows the user to run only a cluster of six machines(they show a picture of their 100 cluster node). The binary module requires kernel modifications. (Thus breaking the Linus permission for binary modules). I think we should stand up against this blatant violation of the GPL. " Update: 02/27 11:34 by S : In related news, xose points out other license violations: Linux Network Drivers states "Several drivers have been distributed that are little more than renamed versions of my drivers. Some have my name, the copyright notice or the Gnu GPL license notice removed. The less flagrant violations merely fail to note that the driver has been modified from the original version. (The GPL requires such a note.)"

levanti writes "Looks like Dell will outsource support of their Linux servers to LinuxCare. Article can be found here. "