Here is a blurb about another conference to plan for: The first LinuxWorld Conference & Expo will be held March 1 - 4, 1999 at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, CA and is expected to attract more than 8,000 key influencers and adopters of Linux technologies. The target audience includes Linux developers, Fortune 1000 business leaders, enterprise managers, CIOs, service providers, system administrators, software solution providers, computer consultants and solutions integrators. LinuxWorld Conference & Expo is owned and managed by IDG World Expo. For more information, beginning November 1, please visit or call 800.657.1474.

Craig Sanders sent us a link to an article about (surprise!) Linux called The People's Revolution, which is a front page story from the IT pages in The Age, Melbourne's biggest newspaper. Mike_Miller wrote in to say that Rob Kennedy (of linux-howto.com fame) is starting a monthly magazine called Ext2 about (surprise) Linux. Josh Baugher wrote in to say 32 Bits Online is now changing their focus to be a (surprise) Linux oriented site. And lastly, mholve has written a nice bit on Advocacy for (surprise!) Linux.

slashtom writes "Just after their good-old-brothers (Canadians), various LUGs across France are organinizing a national installfest (sorry, French only) on Saturday October 10th, 1998. The operation is co-ordinated by AFUL (Linux Users French Association). They have sponsors (SuSE, Red Hat), and more than 15 cities will have their own Linux-Party. If you are in France, don't miss it. If you (or your LUG) would like to participate in helping to spread the word about Linux, as an organizer, sponsor or volunteer, then go to this URL. "

Ian Downard writes "According to ALS's web page, there will now be two keynote addresses. Allen Miner from Oracle will present a keynote on Friday, and Dr. Michael Cowpland from Corel will give a keynote on Saturday. "

Stu Charlton writes " Eric Lundquist explains why watching linux grow in popularity will be the most entertaining thing in years. No factual errors, very cool piece. (this might be a ZDNet first.. hah)"

Christian Selig writes "InfoWorld has taken a look at the Prerelease of Oracle 8 for Linux. Here is the story. " Fairly positive. Compares a bit with Sybase as well.

Well the latest in the flow is 2.1.124. I'll give Dave credit for telling me about this one- he was downloading it so I had to wait to check my mail *grin*

Greg Kau is looking for answers to this particular question: "I am building a small group of low-powered computers. I would like to use the IDT C6 Winchip *despite* its low FPU and, uh, suggestive name. I am curious as to the "compatibility" of the C6 Winchip with Linux and BeOS. Has anyone tried this configuration out? The IDT site claims that Linux has been extensively tested with the C6, but I would just like to know first hand if anyone has tried compiling the kernel, etc... on the C6. Also if anyone has run BeOS on it, I would be grateful if you would comment on your experiences."

Samantha Bonsak would like to query you all on this issue: "I'm trying to find information reflecting the use of Linux within the corporate marketplace; who is using it and for what purpose. I've been hovering around the Slashdot site for a while and haven't seen any links or references regarding this. Can you point me in the right direction?" For the most part, I think that if Linux is being used in the average corporate workplace, then it is done so on the sly, but it would be interesting to know what other corporations are actively supporting Linux (aside from the usuals like IBM, Intel, Caldera, Corel and Netscape...) - Is there a way to get such information?

Troy Jacobson writes in with this dilemma: "I'm facing what could be the start of a migration to NT. One major app that has been desired is Exchange, so that people could use some advanced features of Outlook (e.g., the shared calendar and contact management). Do any alternatives to Exchange exist that run on Linux?" Now I don't know if any single solution exists, but isn't there a suite of apps for Linux one can run to achieve something close to Outlook's functionality?

Freud writes "I havent seen the following on /. yet, but there's a 17 minute long interview with Linus right here . You need a realplayer for this one. "

An Anonymous Coward wrote in to tell us that Metrowerks has announced CodeWarrior for Linux. It's not yet on their website, but he got it through PointCast. It'll be released in Spring 1999 and costs $449. (Students get it for $119). Given the copyright on the announcement, we cannot post the press release. I hope they release a demo-version. update Thanks to "broohaha" for this link to the press release.

Bob Young gave an interview to techweb in which he states that the Intel deal with Red Hat is not intended to give Red Hat a heads start over other Linux distributors. Ed: It would be great if Red Hat convinces Intel to make pre-announcement technology information available to the whole Linux development community. Rather like Cygnus, it appears that Red Hat does not depend on loans. This is good, and hopefully their prudent strategy will mean that if they IPO they'll keep 51% of their stock so that they cannot be bought out (and killed).

Josh Baugher sent us a link to a Linux Gazette article called The Proper Image for Linux. And he says "Here is a great article. The author took a survey of all of the current kernel contributers. Asked them about their education, experience, current use, motivations and quality. Very interesting read. " Hopefully this will do much dispell the immature hacker myth that seems to be floating around out there.

After reading a lot of stories about RH/I/N (including Chuck Milam's submission from CNN) I decided to write up my opinions on the whole deal and dump them online. Hit the link below to read it if you care.

An anonymous read wrote in to say that Red Hat Software will no longer carry TriTeal CDE for Linux. They instead recommend either GNOME or CDE from XiGraphics

Donnie Barnes from Red Hat Software dropped us a line to let us know how things are going at ISPCON. Click on the link below to see the full report.

Black Jack Hyde writes "Nick Petreley's new zine LinuxWorld has a web site up and running. The debut won't be until October, but you can sign up now for the email updates. "

Microsoft's understanding of Intel and Netscape's recent investment in Redhat is atypically dumb. Ed Muth, enterprise marketing group manager for NT, believes that because there is no proprietary IP in Linux (GPL oblige) "there is no reason to stay in the market". Given that Microsoft is built on marketing and some level of support, I have difficulty believing this statement is anything but FUD or some smoke-screen. The article goes on to a legal-expert who seems to believe that applications use linux source code. Thanks to Dan Speers.

Bob Young, head of Redhat, gave an interview to news.com today. Apparently, Red Hat will now gain all Intel proprietary information at the same time as Microsoft does. It also believes that its new powerful friends will encourage MIS directors of large corporations to trust Linux. Moreover to further encourage this, it will be spending its newly won money on improving its support infrastructure. Ed: Given some other information I'm not at liberty to disclose, Redhat's support options may be on the verge of increasing vastly. However, there is no need for Redhat bashing since not only do they have a history of giving back, but moreover any improvements they make to Linux on the basis of proprietary information must be released with any product thanks to the GPL. Indeed, more support will only help establish Linux as a viable platform, as Marc Andresssen explains. Notice Linus' confidence in the availability of Linux apps in 3 to 5 years.