Mike asks: "I was wondering if anyone knows where I could buy a linux plate logo (to fit in that 1" x 1" square in my computer case). I have been searching around, but I cannot seem to find one."

Jonathan wants to know your thoughts on this issue: "I'm thinking of purchasing a magneto optical juke box (in particular an HP 80ex), I was wondering if anyone has had any sucess running them under linux, or just an experience with them in general."

alank asks: "I am investigating a network upgrade for a school. The core Servers are Linux based, but most workstations are currently Macs or PC's and the plan is to move these over to Linux at some later date. Currently the issues on managing large numbers of WinXX programs means that considerable tech support time is wasted on fixing them. I remembered the kiosk article where someone mentioned using Assimilator for the Macintosh to keep images of the hard disks on the servers so it could be replaced, I could not find anything comprehensive on the Windows side to do the same. Should I be looking at dual booting, and somehow using linux on the clients to re-image the drives? How would you do this?

An anonymous reader wrote in to say that "Unix World is running a series of tutorials on configuring services on Linux. This is part 4, but there are links to the previous secitons. Topics include: HTTP, FTP, Telnet, inetd, Firewalling, Mail services and more. find it here "

Ryano writes " TechWeb has a story about LinuxPPC's strong debut at MacWorld. I was interested to read the bit about Linux tapping into Mac extensions to use features it doesn't yet support itself. Additionally, there is also some stuff on the future of LinuxPPC. "

Jeroen writes "USAToday features a nice mainstream article about Linus Torvalds, with mentions his grandfather and contains quotes from his father." The article calls him the next Bill Gates, albeit tongue in cheek.

Panu Hällfors writes "The first one installfest ever in Finland takes place in Ulvila from 16. to 17. January. I'm expecting something like 60 to 70 new installs and of course about as much experienced users to drop by to lend a hand to new users. We'll probably install mainly the new RedHat derivate SOT-Linux which is translated to Finnish. More info can be found on the Internet site of the event, "> here (In Finnish and *only accesible from Finland*) "

Linus released 2.2.0pr.5 this afternoon. Hopefully, enough mirrors will have synced by now. People need to test these babies so the real 2.2.0 is as close to bug-free as possible.

A friend of mine had asked me this question: "it seems that if I want to run a full "Radio station" on Linux only, I can't, since the streamer needs Windows. Is there a way to do it using Linux Only from top to bottom? and what hardware is needed? What software?" I'm sure many others would like to know also how..

Josh Baugher wrote in to tell us that the January 1999 Issue of the Linux Gazette is now out. Articles on Samba, booting Linux with the NT Boot Loader, printing and more.

Lars Larsen writes "Linux Weekly News has a nice Linux timeline for 1998. " The best comment is the little block of Jesse Berst quotes his opinions changing from 'Linux Will Never go Mainstream' to 'I've always said that Linux could be a serious Challanger'

Quite a few submissions have come in about parallel port scanners, but Quicker was the first to ask a question generic post (others were about specific scanners, but they neglected to include models and manufacturers) : "I'm looking for a scanner for my Linux box, and the only support I see is for various SCSI scanners, namely HP, which is fine, but they are expensive. I see all these less expensive (but lower quality) parallel port scanners and would like to get one, since they are good enough for what I do. Anyone working on support for these devices?" SANE supports Plustek Parallel Port scanners, but I don't know if there are any other parallel port drivers in that project. Can anyone shed more light on this subject?

Mark Bickford writes "There's a nice column in Information Week titled "Linux Takes Shot at Making History." Refreshingly FUD-free, and the author is the Executive Editor of the magazine. Maybe a sign of some pro-Linux spin in '99? "

haaz writes "Linux has a big role behind the scenes at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco: the entire OC-3 Internet backbone runs on Linux. All the DNS, IP management, security, etc., is running on Linux. LinuxPPC Inc. is exhibiting, marking their debut as the first Linux exhibitors at a Macworld Expo."

bobalu writes "There's a bit in PCWEEK's Spencer Katt column about a handheld unit from Compaq that runs Linux and is designed as a platform for developing new speech and other interfaces." Yeah we've mentioned itsy before, but someone submits that darn thing about every 3 days, so it's probably worth reposting it now just because not all of the readers who have joined us in the last 6 months are gonna read the 4 thousand or so back stories *grin*.

Prothonotar writes "Kernel 2.2.0 pre4 is out." www.kernel.org being overloaded use a mirror. Mirrors are expressions of the form ftp.country.kernel.org or www.country.kernel.org, such as ftp.us.kernel.org.

libtech writes "S.u.S.E. has just released v. 6.0 of their linux distro... Its a german only release but the english version will be out later this month."

specht (Karl Heinz Kremer) was the first to write in and tell the world that yet another pre2.2 kernel has hit the wire. Go snag it quick and hammer on it.

Happy New Year! Ed Schlunder wrote in with 1999's first Ask Slashdot. He asks: "Our school district is playing with the idea of video conferencing and I'm wondering if this can be done on Linux. My home computer has a bttv card and a full duplex sound card. This should be the necessary hardware for doing video conferencing. On the software side, Linux supports IP Multicast and IGMP, so the kernel seems to be up to the task. But what about the actual video compression and distribution system? So far, everything I've looked at seems about 1-2 years old and no longer maintained (vic, nv, etc). Is there a cross platform video conferencing application out there for Linux that is actively maintained?" The school is currently looking into Microsoft NetMeeting, but Ed worries (and rightly so) that Microsoft might be positioning itself to dominate in this market, allowing them to determine the standards later on. What do you all say?

Kristin DeAngelis wrote in to let us know that LinuxWorldExpo has posted a PDF copy of their brochure to the Web. It has all the latest information, and they are ready for more registrations.