Charles Bronson writes "To give credit where credit's due, I got this off of LinuxToday, but I thought it might stand a chance at Slashdot. It's the same routine OSS article we've been seeing, only it has a quote I haven't seen before. The excerpt: Microsoft executives dismiss open-source as hype. ``Complex future projects to add such functions as automatic translation of e-mail require big teams and big capital,'' said Ed Muth, a Microsoft group marketing manager. ``These are things that Robin Hood and his merry band in Sherwood Forest aren't well attuned to do.'' I just thought that was hilarious. " All I wanna know is who's Little John?

Geek of the Week writes "Alan Cox has posted a hint sheet listing common problems with switching to kernel 2.2.0pre1 along with solutions. " In other pre2.2 news, haaz wrote in to say that LinuxPPC has a 2.2pre1 kernel running on a machine that's also using the LinuxPPC R5 beta. He also says they will have an installer for the R5 beta by December 30.

James LewisMoss writes "Debian would like to participate in the Linux Expo being held in Raleigh in May. Unfortunately, non-profits are only offered a 20% discount on the cost of a booth. $1200 is still needed. Debian is not able to come up with this money to attend. We are currently seeking companies or individuals who would like to sponsor a Debian booth at Linux Expo. Partial or Full sponsorship would be gladly accepted. Any sponsor would, of course, get a notice at the booth that they had helped sponsor it. " Email James if you can help.

Jeff Glover writes "An AP wire story is out about how hot Red Hat is despite being open source, and other obstacles. More of the same that's been coming out of late, but it's nice to see. " This is about as mainstream as you can get I guess. It's a swell little typical article.

Jesda Gulati wrote in to plug his Linux based iMac Rival. It's from Infinital Spacial Technologies and it's called the Infinital One. It costs more ($1500) but it has an LCD screen, it weighs less and is smaller than the iMac. I'm not quite sure why, but the press release says you have to add $10 for Linux, but Win98 is free. Has ethernet, PCMCIA, USB etc. It's also better looking than the iMac, although it's a P233 so I suspect a LinuxPPC iMac will outperform it. I still want one. one.

peyote wrote in to say Linus has finally released 2.2.0pre1. A good mirror for kernel.org is ftp.tux.org. The file is in the v2.2 directory. See below for Linus's note.

mackga writes "Nick Petreley seems a bit put off by Linux advocates. A slight dig at the OSS movement? This one is interesting, seeing how Nick P. is involved w. Linux World. " Overall, I'd say it's a fairly good natured jibe at things.

KodaK writes " Jesse Berst has *gasp* listed Linux as one of the top stories in 1998." Just wait for 99...

Michael Howard writes "netproject is sponsoring the Linux and Open Source Software Conference and Exposition to be held January 20, 1999 at the Venue Commonwealth Institute in London." Sounds sweet for the UK readers. Wish I could go, but there's that big blue thing in the way, and its a bit cold to swim it.

Larry McVoy writes "LinuxExpo is extending the call for papers. The details are at here but the summary is that you have until January 14, 1999 to get us an abstract for a published paper; and until March 1, 1999 to get us an abstract for a talk without a paper. Also, the restriction to groff only has long since bitten the dust, only Rich Stevens and I know how to tyoe in groff, apparently. So we'll take LaTeX with extra brownie points for groff submissions. Thanks! "

H. Peter Anvin writes "The Linux Kernel Archives Mirror System is now available for use! A number of sites across the world have graciously offered to help distribute the Linux Kernel using a common file structure and site-naming scheme. These sites have agreed to mirror the /pub/linux and /pub/software trees (i.e. the original software distributed from our site) from ftp.kernel.org in its entirety. To get connected to a mirror site near you, connect to: "ftp://ftp.xx.kernel.org/pub/linux" where "xx" is your two-letter country code. Note that not all sites archive both .gz and .bz2 format files, and that currently not all countries have both FTP and HTTP support. For more information, including the list of countries currently supported by the Linux Kernel Archives Mirror System and how to register a mirror, please see that page. In addition, a list of the individual mirror sites should be available online sometime next week. To all the sites that have offered their time, disk space and bandwidth, I want to give a huge "Thank you!", and to everyone else, I hope you will find this service useful."

As most of you know, Linux Weekly News issue is out. One thing that I truly liked there is the Linux 1998 timeline (and specially the Jesse Berst part). Although this timeline is not full (and there is some stuff missing - anyone want to help him to fill it?) I think it should be definetly a keeper for the Linux enthusiastic :)

Joab Jackson writes "Feature article on Linux from the Jan 1999 M.I.T. Technical Review. Little in the way in new stuff, but nice in-depth history and with some information on Gnome. I always appreciated this magazine's writing. "

Johan writes "The patch for 2.1.132 is here at last! No sign of 2.2 yet tho... " You know the drill. First stampede the FTP sites and the mirrors, then compile it, boot and wait until the next one. We're getting close now.

Ped Xing writes "This week's Spencer F. Katt Rumor Central cartoon in PC Week features a rather amusing commentary on the proposed Linux Hike in Germany. Check it out here. "

Well, after yesterday's article about LinuxWorld and KDE, the facts have come to light-it wasn't LinuxWorld at all. The following is a letter from Bernd Wuebben, KDE contact in the USA: "A previously posted news bit on stated that the KDE project was asked to pay $1500 for a booth at Linux World. This statement is incorrect. The truth is that the KDE project was asked by a representative of the Linux _Expo_ (Note: NOT Linux World) whether we would like to have a booth at the Linux Expo. We communicated our interest and were told that Linux Expo would be happy to give us a booth for the price of $1500. While I do not know who 'leaked' internal information in distorted incorrect form to slashdot, I would like to take this opportunity to apologize to Linux World in the name of the KDE project. Linux World and its organizers have been very supportive of KDE and in particulare ask/invited us to attend Linux World.". Whew-that makes a whole lot more sense. (CT: the news bit from KDEs site has disappeared without explanation.)

Chris Gill asks: "I'm trying to setup Sendmail to handle multiple domains. I have three domains that it needs to receive and send as. Is there a way to map names into each domain, and have Sendmail change itself depending on who is sending the mail? (So that bob@domain1.org and dave@domain2.org can be sent from the same machine, with return addreses in their correct domains.) "

drix asks: "Recently I picked up 10 old 486 DX4 computers. Naturally the first thing that came to my mind was: Beowulf! All they are is a motherboard, case, processor, and power supply. I'm thinking about sticking 16mb of my DRAM in each (and a NIC, of course) but that's it - I already have a fully functional P2 that I'm using as the console. What's the easiest way to get the bare essentials (kernel, Beowulf drivers, etc.) into each box. I'm considering flash cards, however I was told that they're still quite expensive in terms of MB/dollar. The smallest hard drive I can even find now is around 500 megs, which is overkill. I have no use for 5 gigs of storage. Any novel solutions to this problem?"

Prospero writes "PC Week just published an article on "Linux's Enterprise Evolution." The article can be found It discusses the potential for Linux as a standard enterprise operating system. It speaks specifically about a new filesystem, Coda, and the stability of Linux. Makes nice, though subtle, comparisons to NT. Very informed article. "

An anonymous reader submitted that Internet World mentioned "Tux, Linux's Mascot" in its list of 12 Who Made a Difference during the year. They also mention Jon Postel and Rob Glaser. Worth checking out.