Johan writes "The patch for 2.1.132 is here at last! No sign of 2.2 yet tho... " You know the drill. First stampede the FTP sites and the mirrors, then compile it, boot and wait until the next one. We're getting close now.

Ped Xing writes "This week's Spencer F. Katt Rumor Central cartoon in PC Week features a rather amusing commentary on the proposed Linux Hike in Germany. Check it out here. "

Well, after yesterday's article about LinuxWorld and KDE, the facts have come to light-it wasn't LinuxWorld at all. The following is a letter from Bernd Wuebben, KDE contact in the USA: "A previously posted news bit on stated that the KDE project was asked to pay $1500 for a booth at Linux World. This statement is incorrect. The truth is that the KDE project was asked by a representative of the Linux _Expo_ (Note: NOT Linux World) whether we would like to have a booth at the Linux Expo. We communicated our interest and were told that Linux Expo would be happy to give us a booth for the price of $1500. While I do not know who 'leaked' internal information in distorted incorrect form to slashdot, I would like to take this opportunity to apologize to Linux World in the name of the KDE project. Linux World and its organizers have been very supportive of KDE and in particulare ask/invited us to attend Linux World.". Whew-that makes a whole lot more sense. (CT: the news bit from KDEs site has disappeared without explanation.)

Chris Gill asks: "I'm trying to setup Sendmail to handle multiple domains. I have three domains that it needs to receive and send as. Is there a way to map names into each domain, and have Sendmail change itself depending on who is sending the mail? (So that bob@domain1.org and dave@domain2.org can be sent from the same machine, with return addreses in their correct domains.) "

drix asks: "Recently I picked up 10 old 486 DX4 computers. Naturally the first thing that came to my mind was: Beowulf! All they are is a motherboard, case, processor, and power supply. I'm thinking about sticking 16mb of my DRAM in each (and a NIC, of course) but that's it - I already have a fully functional P2 that I'm using as the console. What's the easiest way to get the bare essentials (kernel, Beowulf drivers, etc.) into each box. I'm considering flash cards, however I was told that they're still quite expensive in terms of MB/dollar. The smallest hard drive I can even find now is around 500 megs, which is overkill. I have no use for 5 gigs of storage. Any novel solutions to this problem?"

Prospero writes "PC Week just published an article on "Linux's Enterprise Evolution." The article can be found It discusses the potential for Linux as a standard enterprise operating system. It speaks specifically about a new filesystem, Coda, and the stability of Linux. Makes nice, though subtle, comparisons to NT. Very informed article. "

An anonymous reader submitted that Internet World mentioned "Tux, Linux's Mascot" in its list of 12 Who Made a Difference during the year. They also mention Jon Postel and Rob Glaser. Worth checking out.

Nathan Machula writes "Linux is one of Time magazine's top 10 technology stories of 1998. There's also a menacing picture of Linus! "

Hamlet Batista writes "Last time checked at 1:30 on 21 December 1998, the beta version of RedHat's Linux Intel distribution included KDE-1.1pre packages. This is very good news for Red Hat Linux users. Welcome, Red Hat. "

qbzzt writes "For all you budding Linux Kernel Module programmers out there - I just wrote a new book for the LDP (Linux Documentation Project) to help you get started. For more information, go to the doc project or an LDP mirror near you. - Ori "

L-ViS wrote in to say that SuSE 6.0 has entered beta testing and can be downloaded over at the SuSE FTP Site .

MonkeyPaw writes "Not really related to computers, code or technology, but it has to do with penguins. If you want to spend you money on a penguin yet don't have the space to keep one at your house, the Oregon Zoo has the answer. "The Oregon Zoo Foundation is raising money to rebuild a wall that protects the largest breeding colony of Humboldt penguins in the world." The Oregon Zoo also has a "zoo parent" sponsorship to help pay for the costs of keeping their animals. (penguins included)" MonkeyPaw's website seems to be rather amusing. Do we have a Segfault competitor?

Vryl sent this latest Salon article our way. It's a well-written story about Google.com a new search engine, brought to us by a couple of Stanford grad students (sound familar?). However, the cool part-besides being run off of a Linux box-is how well it searches, and the relevancy of the returned pages. Check it out.

jjohn asks: "It seems simple enough. You want a new linux toy. You find the source and download it. You do a 'configure', you type 'make' and then ... poof. You're missing a library file. Is there a good text on upgraded system libraries? Is there one or two places, besides old sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux, that are "main" repositories for Linux libs? I prefere to compile source rather than get binaries. For the record, I'm looking to upgrade the libs on my old Slack 3.0 box...Thanks"

Oracle_Monkey asks: "I finally got my first LINUX box up and running with RedHat 5.1, and downloaded ORACLE8. Added path to $ORACLE_HOME/bin and still the apps - sqlplus, svrmgrl..etc won't execute. "shared libraries not found". Anybody elese got this up and running? I have visions of blowing my boss out of the water with a web - enabled (Apache ) datamart . I haven't been this excited about a new product ...well, ever , really.... Anyt thoughts , Ladies & gents? "

python_geek writes "Red Hat has announced a new training/certification program for those who want to be certified Linux Geeks. It looks like their certification will actually mean something as it includes a lab exam were you actually have to show you know how to solve problems, unlike the Microsoft tests which anyone who crams hard enough can pass. It looks really cool, now if I could just get my company to pay for the training and test..."

Roger Davenport writes "Got this in my e-mail today from graham. It seems that AlphaLinux is getting help in the Graphics Department. XI Graphics is releasing its AcceleratedX v4.1.2 for Linux on Alpha. This product will also dramatically increase the number of boards supported for Linux running on Alphas as it currently supports over 250 graphics boards from a wide variety of vendors. " It's now posted on Xi Graphic's website, with full benchmarks. It costs $149.

Apparently Emmanuel Marty of the GGI-project wrote in to tell us that the GGI web site was wiped by the original host provider for no known reason. Opie first alerted us to the story since Emmanuel's post got lost. Could anyone help host the site since the GGI-project is in the pre-beta phase and will soon be making public releases?

CNN has an article reporting that 58 +/- 10 % of IT executives would switch OS given the feeling that Microsoft is not delivering on promises. The poll was conducted on only 150 people reducing its certainty.

Wingz and Wingz-Professional are the latest new tools to be brought to Linux. They appear to be spreadsheet applications with scripting capabilities which allow one to make HyperSheet applications which run on Linux, Windows and MacOS. It will be available at no cost on Linux, and other apps are to be ported. Link courtesy of Linux Today.