Trae Mc Combs writes "This weeks guest is our fearless OpenSource leader. Take some time to check out the past guest as well." Eric is also author of the wonderful fetchmail program. Next, Mathew R. Ignash writes "For those interested in the new Amiga system and OS that Gateway 2000 sibsidary Amiga Inc. have promised for next year, they have released some conceptual pictures of Amiga OS 5.0." Man - those look really cool! Anyone feel like hacking up the Amiga-like window manager to make it look like one of these?

Leif Hardison wrote in to say that hardware.doa.org is is sponsoring a contest for the most inovative case designs. Peter Renshaw wrote in to tell us about the ICQ GNU Project which aims (surprise!) to produce an open source ICQ proggie. Mike Rust wrote in to tell us that SNES9x 1.0 for DOS been released. It supports transparency and SuperFX emulation and all kinds of neat stuff. Linux Port should be Coming. Joshua Fouts wrote in to plug The Online Journal is following the proceedings involving Kevin Mitnick's trial in detail. They also have an article about Chris Lamprecht. Both are pretty interesting. Lastly Michael Dillon sent us a link to an interesting article on 4 phases of Linux acceptance.

Mathew R. Ignash writes "It was just announced that a new Amiga gaming magazine called Amiga Survivor is coming at the end of June. It is being distributed worldwide, and is a welcome to the several general purpose Amiga magazines that are still in print. It comes from Crystal Software, who make software, and print Atari, PC, Playstation and M-Crystal magazines already."

Mathew R. Ignash wrote in with this story where you can read the specs on the new Amigas. PowerPC based. 300mhz, multicpu, Voodoo video and an ATX case. Quite impressive since it should retail under $2k.