Glee writes "ZDnet has written a 3 page article about Microsoft vs. the DOJ. It is an interesting commentary, and the SBC's story on the second page is quite amusing. "

Con Zymaris wrote in to tell us that APC (Australian Personal Computer Magazine) has Given some awards to a few familiar faces: Productivity Sofware of 1998 to The Gimp and their Just Plain Cool Award 1998 to Red Hat Linux 5.1

Recently many people have been asking for a port of Coldfusion to Linux. Allaire has just announced it will do just that. Thanks Jeremy! There is no definite release date yet since Coldfusion relies on third party products which will have to be ported or replaced. Note that this port came about because of user demand. You have a voice: use it!

Freud writes "There's a nice article on linuxtoday about the upcoming 2.2 kernel. It talks about all the new things featured in the kernel (and also about some old stuff ;-))."

Ross Thompson has this question for you all: "I'm a consultant in the DFW, Texas area and have been tasked with cutting IT costs for a large (600+ users) Fortune 1000 company. Currently the company running NT/Novell networks and WinFrame. DHCP is being utilized for WinFrame. All clients are running NT Workstation 4.0. At this point, management isn't too happy with Microsoft, since they spend millions of dollars each year in clients licenses and support costs. I would (maybe) like to suggest going with Linux clients to save these costs." Sound interesting? Well, click below!

SUidRoot writes "I found this Web page while wasting time at work. Linux Cartoons, has a few linux realted cartoons. They are kinda funny. " You might have seen some them before, but then again, you might not have. I want t-shirts of the 2nd one badly.

Nick Petreley's LinuxWorld has finally hit the net! It looks like a mag with a clue, and even includes an article by CmdrTaco, though the touted headline is an interview with some guy named Linus ;) Go forth and Slashdot this site!

Linux' support of EDA is improving as Avant! Corp. prepares to port its Polaris Verilog simulator and Design Acceleration Inc.'s recent port of SignalScan (a debugging environment), Verilog simulation is marching toward the forefront of the Linux EDA movement. Other vendors, such as Fintronic USA are reporting a sudden upsurge in demand for Linux versions of their products. Other vendors such as Novas Software are rethinking their plans given Engineers' preference for Linux. One of the main interests appears to be simulation farms on PCs running Linux which fits better than NT into Unix networks. Indeed even Wellspring whose "decision to drop Linux support" was big news last week revealed that this decision was taken over 2 years ago.

boinger wrote in to send us a link to a yahoo bit saying that ALS has broken the record for the largest number of exhibitors at a Linux conference. I bet this trend continues for every con for that comes along for awhile. I'll be there. I guess I'm one of the exhibitors (VA Research and Cyclic are our official sponsors, so go buy their stuff :) in a booth with t.o and freshmeat so see ya there. No, I won't be naked, but I might go topless for a bit if anyone wants to give me a laptop with a fully functional x key *grin*

In the most recent Unix Riot there is some discussion of Linux. However, the most interesting part of the article is the very last line which says "...an HP executive told me that "you can look for us to announce" support for Linux. How much support? Although he was not precise, the context of our conversation made me believe that HP may even ship Linux on PA-RISC.".

Larry McVoy has quit his job to help Linus scale better: Recently Linus has been getting too many patches (understandable now that Linux is on so many architectures) and is having difficulty keeping up. Linux Weekly News has the gory details. The new system will enable a hierarchy of more and more trusted Linux developers to filter/improve patches before they reach Linus himself without resorting to the committee style approach that has led to the *BSDs splitting up. Given that Larry has lost quite a bit of money so far developing this software the license has yet to be finalized. However he is well qualified to do this having written the source control system used at Sun. Linus is willing to try it out.

Jon Ellis Writes in asking for assistance on this issue: "I'm looking for help getting japanese input working (well) under Linux. The app that matters most is Netscape (browser and mail), and in case someone suggests it MULE and Cut & Paste won't cut it ;)"

ian ehrenwald needs some assistance with this problem: "Can someone help me out with getting a Canon BJC620 to work in Linux and with ghostscript correctly? I have RTFM over and over and compiled this in and that in and with this option and with that option. Nada. I use Staroffice 4.0 and when I try to print stuff just to the normal lpr I get the postscript codes. I am guessing this is because my printer isnt PS friendly. So can anyone reccomend a way to get this BJC620 working with ghostscript so I can print from Staroffice or Netscape or any program that uses PS?"

joe writes in with this call for assistance: "I purchased a used Castelle Print server that only has the DOS configuration software that needs to be run with administrator access level on a Novell network. I would like to use this print server with Linux and OS/2, however, I am unable to set it up without the proper software. This is an older printserver no longer supported by Castelle. I am hoping someone can give me some software (manual calls it uxconfig) or directions on how to get this working."

Kanoot writes "I got the following message from a StarOffice representative this morning... "The beta testing of StarOffice PreFinal has been closed and generated very useful input for the Final version. As StarOffice 5.0 will ship very soon we have discontinued shipping out the PreFinal. The StarOffice 5.0 for Linux is scheduled for release beginning of November." "

kwisti writes " Another Windows versus Linux story, ABCNews.com compares the two operating systems with twist of David versus Goliath parody. They even feature a picture with Rob Young displaying his Red Hat. :) "

Debian has announced that they will be feature freezing v2.1 (code name 'Slink') tonight at 8pm EDT. A party will start on irc.debian.org #debian 2 hours prior to the freeze. apt-get is in, but the GUI isn't yet. Also will include the latest Gnome. Related is the 'Highly Commendation' reward Debian recently received from APCM. Congrats guys.

Joel Stone was the first to tell us "Stop the presses! Compaq has thrown it's weight behind Linux - For details see link " This follows on from Compaq's announcement back in September. However, this goes one step further: Compaq will help the Linux community get Linux working on Compaq hardware (as they did with with their donation of an Alpha to Debian), they will provide telephone support, and port Compaq software to Linux on the Alpha and x86/IA 64 platforms.

An Anonymous reader writes "S.u.S.E., Inc. announced today that the shipment of Linux Office Suite 99 will be delayed. Originally scheduled to ship during the week of October 12, S.u.S.E. now expects the Linux Office Suite to ship closer to the end of October.

gnudist writes "I almost hesitate to mention this, since it might suggest that the anonymous mob mentality on Slashdot has gotten its way, but: Remember the "Linux Standards Association"? Remember the flame wars that thrilled and disgusted millions? All 9 of the LSA's domains (that's right, 9) are now "On Hold", which typically means either (a) a trademark dispute (as had been theorized about earlier) or (b) they didn't pay the bills (if a "Standards Association" which wants to attract Fortune 500 members doesn't have $630 to pay the 'NIC, something is wrong.) This means that www.linuxstandards.org won't resolve. Perhaps the LSA would like to explain this situation? "