Josh Baugher sent us a link to a Linux Gazette article called The Proper Image for Linux. And he says "Here is a great article. The author took a survey of all of the current kernel contributers. Asked them about their education, experience, current use, motivations and quality. Very interesting read. " Hopefully this will do much dispell the immature hacker myth that seems to be floating around out there.

After reading a lot of stories about RH/I/N (including Chuck Milam's submission from CNN) I decided to write up my opinions on the whole deal and dump them online. Hit the link below to read it if you care.

An anonymous read wrote in to say that Red Hat Software will no longer carry TriTeal CDE for Linux. They instead recommend either GNOME or CDE from XiGraphics

Donnie Barnes from Red Hat Software dropped us a line to let us know how things are going at ISPCON. Click on the link below to see the full report.

Black Jack Hyde writes "Nick Petreley's new zine LinuxWorld has a web site up and running. The debut won't be until October, but you can sign up now for the email updates. "

Microsoft's understanding of Intel and Netscape's recent investment in Redhat is atypically dumb. Ed Muth, enterprise marketing group manager for NT, believes that because there is no proprietary IP in Linux (GPL oblige) "there is no reason to stay in the market". Given that Microsoft is built on marketing and some level of support, I have difficulty believing this statement is anything but FUD or some smoke-screen. The article goes on to a legal-expert who seems to believe that applications use linux source code. Thanks to Dan Speers.

Bob Young, head of Redhat, gave an interview to news.com today. Apparently, Red Hat will now gain all Intel proprietary information at the same time as Microsoft does. It also believes that its new powerful friends will encourage MIS directors of large corporations to trust Linux. Moreover to further encourage this, it will be spending its newly won money on improving its support infrastructure. Ed: Given some other information I'm not at liberty to disclose, Redhat's support options may be on the verge of increasing vastly. However, there is no need for Redhat bashing since not only do they have a history of giving back, but moreover any improvements they make to Linux on the basis of proprietary information must be released with any product thanks to the GPL. Indeed, more support will only help establish Linux as a viable platform, as Marc Andresssen explains. Notice Linus' confidence in the availability of Linux apps in 3 to 5 years.

Pierce sent us a link to a story over at Yahoo where you can read about An UltraSparc version of Linux. Sun actually has some fairly inexpensive ultra's these days. And this company will apparently build UltraSPARC Linux boxes for you. Not bad.

Redhat has now announced that Intel, Netscape, Greylock and Benchmark Partners have invested in it. Intel wants to target ISPs with their Linux strategy. Intel will also be joining Linux International. It will be interesting to see in which way Red Hat will react to UDI given the discussion about it on the kernel list, summarized by Linux Weekly News. (updated)

Informix is stepping up its Linux support with a ports of Dynamic Server (expected to ship by the first quarter of next year) and the Dynamic 4GL toolset (to ship within days). Plans are also being made to bring Universal Server to Linux. This turnaround in Informix' strategy is due to the realization that deep-pocketed corporate customers also use linux.

Richard Harmon writes in with this bit of networking trouble: "I'm trying to set up a linux firewall at my office, but I can't get the forwarding to work. I've tried ipportfw, but it acts like the packets don't match the masq' rules or something. I can't figure out a way to have the smtp, pop3, imap, x.400 and so on forwarded /through/ the firewall with NAT (network address translation).. I basically want my firewall to sit on the mail sever's old (outside) IP, and then when it recieves network traffic on that IP to forward it to our internal network (192.x.x.x). HELP!!!

OctobrX hinted at it, but here's the deal. Slashdot, Freshmeat, and Themes.org are going to be going to the Atlanta Linux Showcase at the end of October. Hemos and Myself will be representing Slashdot, along with OctobrX and Scoop from Themes & FM respectively. We'll have a booth and some VA Research machines to run web sites on. The whole adventure is being sponsored by VA and Cyclic Software. If there is demand I can bring shirts for folks. We're still working out what we're going to do with the booth- the nude interpretive dance idea seems to be a popular choice though.

Well, approximiatly 20 million of you folks submitted the latest Berst column about Linux, over at ZDNet. However, what has been intersting to read is the different submittors take on the article-some of them have embraced whole-scale, while others (myself included) just think that he's hedging his bets, and trying to straddle the fence. So, give it a read, and let me know what you think.

Ken Miller was one of the first to send in the notice that the Gray Lady of Journalism herself had noticed Linux. On the down side, you will need a free account to login for this story. But this definitly shows that Linux has made it in the Old Media world.

Adam Wiggins writes in to ask this question: "Someone please tell me there's a descent sound library for Linux? Price is no object - we can afford to drop a couple thousand bucks on a license, although obviously a GPL'd one would be cooler." Good question! Click the link for more!

George Greer writes "While idling doing a search for Transmeta on AltaVista, I came across the title "Recent Ph.D graduates". Naturally I was curious. On the page link they list the following people now working at Transmeta and their focus. Craig Anderson, ``Improving Performance of Bus Based Multiprocessors'', Autumn 1995. Advisor: Jean-Loup Baer. Current Employment: Transmeta, Inc., Santa Clara, CA. David Keppel, ``Runtime Code Generation'', Spring 1996. Advisor: Susan Eggers. Current Employment: Transmeta, Inc., Santa Clara, CA. Jack Lo, ``Exploiting Thread-Level Parallelism on Simultaneous Multithreaded Processors: Hardware and Software Techniques for Effectively Managing Shared Resources'', Spring 1998. Advisors: Susan Eggers and Hank Levy. Current Employment: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara, CA. As if there's any doubt left they're making a (really cool) processor. " Mmm...and based on what Linus said at Linux Expo, I think it's clear that they are headed toward SMP fun.

Chad Cunningham writes "C|Net has posted a story on NT5.0 vs. Red Hat Linux 5.1. Not a bad article, but again they missed some of the things that linux can do as well as NT. For example, they touted the ability to control management functions on NT from other NT machines as well as from a web browser (only IE4 of course) . They seemed to think it was better than being able to telnet into your machine and edit ANYTHING from ANY computer. Of course, I guess no one told them about linuxconf... "

Todd Burgess writes "This is an article I wrote that I feel illustrates many of the flaws in the ideas being promoted by the Linux advocates. The article is called Linux For the Masses and Other Popular Myths and can be found here. "

Jamie writes "An article on ZdNet says that Intel and Netscape plan to Invest in Red Hat. The announcement will be made at ISPCon '98, and the money will most likely go towards creating an enterprise support group within RedHat. "

Steve writes "S.u.S.E. has launched it's Linux Office Suite 99 and plans to start shipping it on Oct. 15th, according to this CNet Article "Priced at $79.95, S.u.S.E's Linux Office Suite 99 includes a spreadsheet, word processor, presentation graphics, a database, fax program, and other traditional business applications, the company said." and "Linux Office Suite 99 is also able to exchange document data with Microsoft Office 97" Woo-hoo! "