Kendall Hunter sent us a link to a Mining Co article called 6 Lies About Linux which attempts to address a lot of the FUD that has been popping up in the mainstream media (Does it ever stop?). Things like Linux is Unstable and Linux is Insecure. Good PHB stuff. I wonder if we can get permission to use the PHB for articles of this nature. That would be kinda cool.

Wheely writes "There is a vote for the best dressed and the most interesting guests at the Finnish President's Independence day ball. Linus and his tux can be viewed at here and by selecting "Kuvat vieraista". Linus is tag "9" number 46. Vote by selecting "Aanestys" and entering 46 in the two boxes and hitting the button. NOTE. Votes must be in by 2.00pm 8.12.1998 Finnish time (GMT +2) "

Siva writes "There's an update on the X11AMP homepage regarding the release of the next version along with some nifty screenshots. X11AMP is a (soon-to-be GPL'd) mp3 for linux. "

Murray Kosovich writes " Applix plan to make parts of the Applixware product's source code and internal development tools available for download under an Open Source style agreement. See this Applix List message for details. " Please note that this applies to things like filters, add-in functions, and build-tools, not to the whole Applixware Office Suite.

xose sent us a link to the MkLinux OSF Page which has the following message: " Status as of November 1998 This page is no longer being maintained, since the MkLinux development is no longer active "

Anonymous Coward writes "Greetings from CLOWN, the worlds largest (512-Node) Linux cluster. Theres an english page here. Take a look at the CLOWNs own website story. All 512 Nodes are busy preparing a movie right now (02:20 MET), and many international Television-Channels are carrying the "WDR Computernacht". Were on the air in China as well! " Nice to know it's up and running... More details on this page in German. Apparently the cluster uses Debian Linux.

te wrote in to tell us that penguins are being threatened by oil spills, habitat destruction, the overfishing of their food supplies and even the weather. For those that do not know why the Linux mascot is a penguin, read the latest Linus interview. (It also tells us what he thinks of the DOJ-Microsoft trial). Since the ocean is far away (from me in Colorado at least), does anyone know of any organisations set up to help our favorite feathered friends?

Kythe writes "This article in ZDnet reports that a "key" Linux kernel, number 2.2 to be exact, will be delayed. Several erroneous suggestions are carried in the piece, but the one I like best is the implication that current versions don't include SCSI and multiprocessing support. I don't suppose they've printed a correction for their "Linux worm" story yet, either. Oh well. " How can something that never had a release date be delayed? Just your usual FUD. I'm pretty pissed that SMP & SCSI aren't working in previous versions of the Kernel too- I'm kinda wondering how Slashdot (which is Linux, SMP and SCSI) was working without it.

jdlt writes "The German television program "Computer Club" is celebrating it's 250th broadcast by doing a 7-hour live-show saturday-night. During the live-show their are going to attemp, with the help of the German Linux Magazin to build a 512-machine Linux-cluster. What makes this even more special is that they're using P C's of people coming to the broadcast"

Jason Lango writes "Silicon Graphics, Inc. is now a Sponsoring Corporate Member of Linux International. Go us! An official press release from Linux International can be found here. " Sun, Intel, Adaptec, now SGI. Who's next?

Troy Baer writes "There's a good article on CNN.com about the Linux Doc Project and getting help for Linux. It's honest and largely positive." This is excellent mainstream coverage.

Greg writes "Sun Microsystems posted an interesting article on SunWorld today regarding how Linux may not only be a threat to WinNT, but to other commercial Unix vendors. "

azdolt asks "I hope I can get some help on this: I have been trying to get xdm to run on all the virtual consoles, but I have no success so far and I read the man page for xdm and anything that I can find about xdm." This isn't difficult at all, but there's a note in /etc/inittab that worries me - Click below to find out what it is...

A new development kernel has been released. You can get 2.1.131 from the usual and the unusual places. It's a 173K patch that contains updates to the joystick, i386 and alpha code. A more detailed summary will probably be available soon on linuxhq.

Jim Gleason writes "Does the idea of hiking the castle-laden hills, caves and medieval hamlets of the German countryside appeal to you? Does the thought of excellent beer preserve your good mood for days? Do you think that Linux rules? Well, Electric Lichen L.L.C. is organizing a week-long trip called Linuxbierwanderung, "The Linux Beer Hike." Scheduled for August 1999, Linux users will hike the hills of northern Bavaria to learn Linux on their laptop computers and visit the local brewpubs. Experts in Linux and the Bavarian outdoors will teach classes to the hikers during the day and enjoy the local pub scene in the evening. " People can subscribe to the mailing list via the Web Page which is also archived. Linux, Beer, and Nature. 2 out of 3 ain't bad.

P.J. Hinton writes "Performance Computing has posted their first installment of a regular column on Linux called Penguin's Brew. It's being written by the venerable Jon maddog Hall. The first column is just the basics about what Linux is. It's a bookmarker for those of you who need to point someone to an article about what Linux is all about. "

Clive Turvey wrote in to point out a new News.com article touting Linux, and its strengths, specifically as it relates to Microsoft. Sort of good, here's why it matters article.

EngrBohn writes "A number of the HOWTOs at the Linux Documentation Project have been updated. Linux Today has compiled a table of which ones have changed. "

Lazy Bones asks "Can anyone recommend a good 'off the shelf' Problem reporting for Linux. I am working in a multiply supplier development environment and we already use Linux/appache for interproject information. It would be nice to have a web based tool to document problems between Stakeholders. The current system is based on Access and is unusable. Does anyone have experience of using the PHP based tools such as 'Keystones'?"

Judah writes "The December issue of the Linux Gazette is out." There's an intro to Emacs, as well as an intro to RAID if you're interested. Plus Miguel on GNOME and a review of the Happy Hacking keyboard.