Anonymous Coward writes "The Financial Times reports today in its Lex column that, due to the increasing commercialisation, linux riskes loosing it soul. " I've felt that way on several occasions (usually after a rough day at a conference where I watch as big corporate entities perform ruthless and evil acts that make me so sad) but then someone else turns around and surprises me by doing something really wonderful and reminding me that there is still a lot of soul in there. I'm optimistic, but we still need to be careful.

Mike wonders about the following issue: "I am working on development of a Linux hosted web server that will allow users to edit their own web spaces. I realize that there is FTP for file/web-page management purposes, but for many of my users, this would be a disaster, since they don't understand the in's & out's of managing a site thru FTP. Are there some kind of extensions for Apache (or any other Linux-based servers) that allow me to do live & in-place editing?" I wonder if something like this is necessary with the difficulty of FTP becoming less of an issue with the better of the graphical clients out there. It allows users to use better Web Development tools on their own machines as well. What do you all think?

An anonymous reader wrote in to send us The Practical Manager's Guide to Linux. With a title like that, how much explanation do you need? It refutes all the usual FUD- hopefully it does what it says.

PowerPC sent us a post from 3dfx.glide.linux asking for someone interested in working at 3dfx. Specifically to work on developing, evangelizing and maintaining 3dfx under Linux. Glad to see another vendor joining the fray. I've attached the full request and contact information below.

ramkal asks: "I would like to know if there are any good "pure" object databases (free or commerical) for Linux. No I don't have Oracle 8 (or Informix IDS) in mind. I would hear from those who have succesfully implemented ODs in a decent project (100k + lines of c++ code). True, ODs are no longer as hot as they used to be a couple of years ago but they have their own advantages as I have seen in a financial industry setting."

yuri-g sent us a link to the transcripts of last nights ABCNews Chat with Linus. While he doesn't say what Transmeta does, he talks about the Cult of Linus, Linux on Consumer Electronics, Distributions, and the ever popular LiGnuX debate. Somewhat lengthy, but a good summary, with some new info too.

l2b writes "The Standish Group has an interesting article which they talk about the hype surrounding Linux. It goes on to predict division in the Linux ranks. Worth a read, or perhaps entering the I Bet the Farm on Linux Contest. "

Here's a followup to an article we did earlier on video converencing. Dave Dash and another nameless submittor both wish to know if 3Com's Big Picture videoconferencing can work under Linux. If it does work, Dave also wants to know whether whatever software necessary will also work with NetMeeting users. Any takers?

Owain Vaughan writes "Mindcraft's excuse for their results when comparing highly tuned NT versus vanilla Linux was that there was no central source of Linux Tuning information. Well there is now. Please submit all the Linux tuning articles you can get hold of to root@vaughan.com"

Cpt_Kirks writes "The creator of the Sinclair ^[?] computers in the UK is now working on a cheap, portable Linux box." Nifty seeing this on wired with some comments about the inventor himself.

elsewhere sent us Linux gushes savings for oil giant where you can read about the 32 node beowulf cluster being used by an oil company to replace IBM super computers.

An anonymous reader writes " It's official now. Kleiner Perkins has blessed the Linux movement. Nobody will ever be fired for deploying Linux. " Kleiner Perkins is one of the VCs behind Amazon and Netscape.

Scott Johnson writes "This Wednesday at 2pm, EDT, ABC News will be having an online chat with Linus Torvalds. This should be very interesting compared to some of their previous guests... :-) "

Yes, it's YALC - Yet Another Linux Conference. This time, it's in the Great White North. Andrew J. Hutton is organizing the Ottawa Linux Symposium (if that link doesn't work, try this one), a smaller conference, aimed more towards developers than the casual user. Talks include a QoS tutorial, and a keynote by Alan Cox. Andrew asked me to reiterate that this is a "conference and party, not a trade show".

Drizzeth writes "Today S.u.S.E. Linux 6.1 will be released, this is what's new: Kernel 2.2.5, XFree86TM 3.3.3.1, Support for all 3Dfx cards: Voodoo I + II (accelerated) Voodoo Rush (accelerated) Voodoo Banshee / Voodoo III (beta), KDE 1.1 with koffice, GNOME 1.0, Ghostscript 5.10, ijb (non-cacheing HTTP proxy server that filters contents as described in the configuration files), freeamp (MP3-Player), netbeans (Cross-plattform Java IDE, Demo) And lots of updates."

Lakini writes "I'd just like everyone to know that LinuxGames has launched a new site design and some of the documentation has been updated also. " It's so excellent to see that Linux has enough news to support an active site like this. With Q3, Civ, and rumors of so much more, its great to see that Linux is almost a viable gaming platform.

Anthony Fuentes writes "You can pre-order the GPL Redhat 6.0 CD at LSL for $0.00. " This looks legit- shipping looks like about $8 for UPS, but it does appear to be a free CD, so if you aren't blessed with a T1, check this out.

tknockers writes "News.com has a story about how Linus describes Linux as being "fun". He even goes on to say that in 150 years our lives will only be motivated by fear of boredom. "

CaNeS was the first of many to write in and tell us that Creative Labs now has a beta driver for the Sound Blaster Live! available on their ftp site. Alas, they are only binaries, but its a start.

Mike_Miller writes "In a recent interview with ESR in BusinessWeek, ESR calculates that, in 5 years, there will be 750 million Linux users (a conservative estimate). Wouldn't that be great!?! " I think one of my favorite parts is the title: "I want to live in a world where software doesn't stink." But this number should be fairly easy to hit-my cloning project has been doing quite well.