Robert Wikander was the first to write in and tell us that S.u.S.E. is taking orders for 6.0 and will begin shipping on December 15. S.u.S.E. 6.0 will upgrade to glibc 2.0.7, and feature egcs 1.1.1. You can read more over at Linux Today. This combined with the possible 2.2 kernel release is going to make for some happy holidays.

Dandy writes "In this article Robin Miller, one of those rare non-clueless journalists, lets everyone know that it *is* possible to have a Linux computer that is perfect for the average home user who only wants something that is easy to use. Surprise, everyone! It's not really hard after all. "

Amlan Saha wrote in to send us an announcement about a Singapore Linux Conference in (surprise) Singapore. For some reason, I don't think I'll be able to make this one *grin*. Its March 5 & 6 for those of you out there. You can hit the link below to read the release.

xer.xes was the first to write in and announce that yet another in the popular series of Linux Devel Kernels has been released for mass consumption. It can be snagged from The usual Places.

An Anonymous Coward writes "According to an interview published in SAPMAG, a linux version of SAP R/3 exists. It has been developed in the spare time of some of the SAP R/3 developers. SAP is providing R/3 for Linux to interested clients without support. Check babelfish for a translation. " No support, but this is still cool. One more step towards total world domination.

jebba wrote in to tell us about a new Linux distro: Yellow Dog Linux. There will be two versions: a server edition and a personal edition, a trend which seems to becoming pretty popular. Both will be based on Red Hat/Linux PPC. If the web site is any indication, it will be very nice indeed. Update: Dan Burcaw wrote in to say they've updated their website since yesterday's post. They now have more info about the distro and pricing info, too.

David Sifry writes "LinuxCare is proud to announce a free bug tracking service for the open source developer community. We'll set up a jitterbug-based tracking system that will help keep track of your project. It's all web-based and easy to use. If you would like to take advantage of this, drop us a line at caretracker@linuxcare.com and we'll set it up for you! More details are on the LinuxCare website. " Is anyone doing something similiar with CVS yet?

John Goerzen writes "The Board of Software in the Public Interest, current owner of the Open Source trademark, has announced their position on the issue, including a public comment period, in this article at the SPI website. "

diakka writes "Pacific HiTech believes that there is a large Linux market in China to be tapped. They plan on market their TurboLinux, which already has tools to handle the different character sets. Since Linux can run on low end hardware, and is easy to obtain a little or no cost, It seems likely that Chinese computer users may make up a much larger portion of the Linux community in the near future." What tools are available out there that allow the use of Chinese in Linux or X?

Olivier Debon writes "I'm the one who developed the unofficial Flash Plugin for Linux. I was in touch with Macromedia and they decided to support Linux at last. Check their download page This may be the death of my project. :( " Hopefully Olivier will keep working at it, unless MacroMedia goes open-source... in which case he can improve it ;-)

stumsc writes sent us a link to an article that talks about Linux and the Consumer Market. The author talks about several major areas of debate and it looks like the thing we need most is documentation, but also things like easier installation and interoperability (in both cases, they work, they just need to be easier for the less hardcore)

CMiYC writes "James Lewis, a strong Linux advocate, has posted a response to the (now) popular ABCnews article. I am submitting this because, this email response shows a "correct" response to writers who down Linux. (This is opposed to the "windows sucks, linux rulez, dumba$$--response that I see quite often.) [It is me, or is the sudden negative press signs of fear?]"

Charles Bronson writes "A column by Michael Surkan went up on ZDNet today titled "I come not to praise Linux." Basically, it dismisses Linux as not being a serious threat to Microsoft. He makes the typical point, the one repeated over and over in the media, that Linux is too anarchic for big-time users, apparently ignoring the growing number of big-times users using Linux. As well, he dismissed the importance of The Halloween Document as "being grossly exaggerated in its importance. Just like Linux.""

Chris wrote in to send us a link to a techweb story about Linux 2.2 . As I'm sure many of you know- its right around the corner. Linus plans a Pre 2.2 series of kernels for final squashing, but apparently 2.1.129 is a stones throw away from solid. It ought to be here before christmas if you believe in release dates.

Aharon Chernin writes " This has got to be one of the poorest written FUD articles of our time.. He gets information from an unamed, unproven source. Then writes an article on it. This "source" I bet is a hole in the wall NT admin in a linux shop.. Flame away /.'ers. Aharon "

Well, the folks over at BusinessWeek are currently running a story about Linux. The basic rundown is that Linux is not much of a threat to NT, serving mostly as a threat to other *nixes. As well, the author says that Linux has less then 5% of the server market. I suppose we can't get all good press. Yet.

Fuji Photo Company is to distribute its own Linux according to their website. Apparently it's targeted at server use. Any Japanese readers care to translate it for us?

David McNett, the man with the .plan over at Distributed has brought great news unto the Linux world. Having become convinced some time ago that the NT box that handled stats wasn't making the grade, they will be moving to Linux based solution. That's great-and for all of those you haven't signed up for the Slashdot team for Distributed.net, consider this a written invitation. Click below for instructions on how to join, and read our stats for today.

Linux Magazin has an in in depth review of Infomix SE by a German University Professor, and IX, the professional German IT magzine, has a review of Oracle 8.05 under Linux. Indeed, IX's main theme this month is Linux Multimedia. In related news C'T reviews Caldera OpenLinux, while Caldera announces a new line of servers: the VBS line.

jd was the first to write in to let us know that Linus has graced us with yet another development kernel. We're almost in 2.2 land, folks. I can feel it. Update: scratch wrote in with a link to Linus' comments on the release: "...the only reason I don't call it 2.2 is that I'm chicken."