Debian-announce sent out a message today stating that you can now boot Debian on the Corel NetWinders. They used to merely run Red Hat v4.2. You can snag the boot images or A kernel package from Jimpick.com (who also keeps .deb's of most of Gnome around as well)

Don Rude sent a letter to us, asking the Linux community to give him a hunk of yer collective mind about potentially porting Cold Fusion into an Apache module. More info was in a past article.

hazard writes "Just saw an annoucements that Alta Technology started making AltaCluster systems based on Extereme Linux. Now those look really nice! I'm glad to see professionally designed systems for Beowulf. "

Magus311X writes " Even during the usual marketing of Windows 98 and how to effectively nuke your system resources using it, Linux once again is mentioned! The wonder OS was featured on Computer Chronicles with a cool segment featuring Linus Torvalds over national cable access. Linus bashes the OS market by claiming that all the OS's "Just... suck." and self-proclaimed himself as "the best programmer in the world". The show also included snippets of the ever-glorious "Slashdot.org" using Netscape 4.5, as well as The Gimp, KDE. It also featured VA Research, and that they make custom Linux boxen. (Mooo!) So, thanks to WGBH 44 and all the other cable access channels that featured Computer Chronicles, for showing the world "The growing alternative to the Windows platform". The show usually reruns the following Saturday, so tune in on 10-17-98 for some Linux action. And check out the Computer Chronicles website"

Nick Towers wrote to tell us of an interesting editorial which outlines the risks associated with closer industry ties for the linux community and distributors: we think open, they think proprietary. Nick got this from the The Register before it was published on the main page... And you work for, Nick?

Ken Broadfoot wrote to relay a message from Vladimir Eflov Dear colleagues! We are small new group of the Linux users from Petrozavodsk State University Russia Unfortunately, our activity has coincided with the new financial crisis in our country. As a result, we can not receive the books and other materials connected with Linux (cost of one book is equal to half of salary of the professor of university and equal to two mounths salary of associate professor). The resources of our Internet server Internet are too weak to get the distribution kit of Linux online. If you have possibility to send us any editions on Linux, GNU C ++, GNU Java & etc. unnecessary to you, and also the distribution CD's of Linux we would be extremely grateful to you." Read more below.

Evelyn Mitchell writes "Enter the tummy.com Where's 2.2? pool and show off your project estimating skills. link " Linus should enter. He might have a somewhat unfair advantage.

chris writes "The Conference Schedule for the '98 Atlanta Linux Showcase is Here . Seats are filling up so it is recommended people Register." Scoop & I are gonna dance for quarters in our booth. Jeff is going to performance art headstands, and I think Trae is going to mix drinks. Mind you our plans might change between now and then, so don't hold us to this.

Infoworld's rumor column is reporting that Allaire (Cold Fusion) and NCR (Teradata) are considering Linux ports... World domination by the year 2000?

Richard R McKinley asks "I am having a hard time putting up the $3,000 for a NT based firewall. What solutions are available for Linux both free and comercial? What are the drawbacks if any? This could be a great way to introduce Linux into our enterprise. I'm sure it would for others too. "

Anonymous to Avoid Corporate Wrath writes "Writing a whole new GUI for all the apps is likely to be pretty intractable for me alone, so I am trying to investigate the porting tool options further. Can any tell me of a useful Win->Linux porting path that supports MFC and DCOM?" Interesting question! Click below for more...

Christian Selig writes "As this poll at Linux.de shows, SuSE is the preferred distribution in German-speaking countries" SuSE is the largest European commercial distribution, making it like RedHat in the US.

P.J. Hinton writes "CMP columnist Fred Langa is in the process of giving Linux a test drive and is opening up his threads page to people who are willing to give installation guidance and input. This would be a good chance for Linux advocates to stop flaming Windows and start helping him to see where Linux can do wonders. "

hazeii writes "After some weeks hacking, we've managed to decode the protocol used to upload MP3 files to Saehan's MpMan, and created a Linux program to do this. The program is provided with full GPL'd source, and is available from here. This means you can now use Linux with the first truely portable MP3 player. "

Craig Condit writes "Linux kernel 2.1.125 has been released. You can get it here. In related news, Linus posted the 2.1.125 announcement on the kernel mailing list with a mention that the next kernel releases will probably be pre-2.2, and we can expect the real 2.2.0 Real Soon Now. "

Oracle plans to distribute and support Linux, probably licensing an existing distribution to bundle with their database. However they will still support all 4 major distributions ( including I assume Redhat (US), Pacific HiTech (Japan) and SUSE (Europe)) wanting to be the people who are called if a user has a problem with Linux. Read more below.

It seems that Debian decided to stop distributing KDE both on CDROM and through the Internet.
Debian statement is here.
This story appeared at Linux Today (excellent news web site)
Fellas, please, try not to flame this time. If you have something to comment, please make yourself clear and explain if you agree or not, after all, YOUR opinion counts.

Josh Baugher writes "Applixware 4.4.1 for Linux New version of Applixware has Office97 filters, Y2K compliance. " "They" always say its about the apps. Applix is definately making that happen.

This week's Linux Weekly News' lead article discusses the possible impact on independent VARs if Robert Young's prediction that 6 of the 10 major PC manufacturers will start distributing Linux turns out true. An article in PC Week lists likely contenders to be Gateway (has been doing certification tests with Linux for six months, and most likely will install Linux across its enterprise server line next year, said Ray Hebert, senior manager of servers), IBM, Dell, Hitachi, Toshiba, Compaq and HP which have all made some sort of positive noise about Linux...

kinzer writes " Mandrake has already submitted a comment about this, but it really needs front page notice to save folks from travel and schedule nightmares. The LINC conference in January is being merged into the LinuxWorld Expo conference in March. Anyone planning to attend the LINC show needs to review their schedule and travel plans. I repeat, the LINC conference in January is no more!"