Chris Tyler writes "The Canadian Linux User's Exchange (CLUE), an umbrella organization promoting the use of Linux in Canada, is co-ordinated a country-wide National InstallFest which will take place on September 26. The events will be open to anyone, Canadian or not (we have at least one American coming), but getting your PC through customs is *your* responsibility :-). We would like to co-ordinate with other countries for a World InstallFest sometime next year (imagine the publicity that could generate)." note: I try to avoid posting things that don't affect the majority of readers, normally this includes installfests. Is it worth creating a subsection on Slashdot just to house regional specific events like this?

Zackary Tippett writes "I found this on news.com. It talks about how Oracle, Informix, Dell, and Intel think Linux is ready for corporate use " Good article. Several examples of Linux in big time use. Let's face it folks, Linux is going mainstream in a big way.

Bauwolf writes "Robert X. Cringely writes up his thoughts after meeting Linus for the first time in his PBS Pulpit Page. " the usual spot where you find Cringley's stuff. I dig this guy."

Stephan Lange wrote in with what will undoubtedly be the most exciting news bit for the rest of the week:Linux 2.1.121 is out. You know where to get it. fetch! Or snarf. Or ncftp. Or Lynx.

Chris Colon writes "For NT (and more recently, Solaris) Web developers, Cold Fusion from Allaire has long been an extremely strong tool for rapidly building Web applications and connecting sites to databases. I recently asked in a forum on Allaire's Web site whether they were going to make a Linux port of Cold Fusion. Eventually I invoked the name of one of the founders in the company (Jeremy Allaire) in my argument in favor of a Linux port. He actually responded to the public thread, personally, and basically said that they were considering it. The thread is over here.

If a fraction of Slashdot's readership jumps in and gives Mr. Allaire some good feedback, we may eventually see a Linux version of Cold Fusion. For many a Web developer, that would be a dream come true. Thanks for your time! "

A number of you wrote in to talk about the fact that Applix has apparently decided that since the Linux market has continued to mature that they will be selling and marketing Applixware on their own, and no longer working thru Redhat. Let's hope this goes well for them.

Slashdot reader Robert Gash writes in with this problem:
Hello, I live in a MediaOne area, but I am unable to recieve 2-way cablemodem service (nor will I until 2000). I have been pressed to find information concerning the setup of Linux and the SurfBoard1200/1100 external cablemodems. I do understand some of the basics of the setup and how the modem works (Internal Webpages on the device help you set it up and dial), but I haven't seen any success stories w/ Linux. The mediaone people tell me that it works, but I'd like to know more. I don't want to sink $50/mo and $100 installation fee into a device that won't perform in Linux like I want. I have heard rumors that it is widely discussed in the MediaOne.* newsgroups, but I can't access those because I'm not a MediaOne subscriber. Can anyone provide some more information? Thanks.

Any takers?

Slashdot reader Brice Ruth has this question:

Since installing RedHat 5.1, I've been trying to find any kind of help in running iBCS. I realize that a package for iBCS is preinstalled with RedHat 5.1 (kernel-ibcs...), however, all attempts at running SCO binaries have failed. I HAVE been able to figure out that the reason it is failing is because I don't have libraries for the binaries. Let me rephrase -- I DO have the libraries, since I have access to a perfectly legal copy of SCO OpenServer, however, I have no idea where to place them and what directory structure is necessary so that they are found, etc. Two things would be quite helpful in my quest:

1. a good page that tells me all these things that I need to do
   
2. someone who has successfully used iBCS and is relatively familiar with the process in both SCO and Solaris.

If you have a question you would like posted to Ask Slashdot, then please send them to me. I would like to start posting more questions on a regular basis since Ask Slashdot is now its own section.

TrippD writes "I bought a Digital AlphaStation 200 through onsale.com a few weeks ago. After much strugle I have finally got it to boot into the installation of Redhat 5.0. I have gotten to the point where it starts for format the root partiontion, but it freezes every time, about half way through. I have tryed 2 different SCSI-2 drives (it didn't include a harddrive or cdrom). The kernel always reports 29XXX bytes of memory, even though it shiped with 16, and I have added 32 (Any combo, it still says 29 megs). HELP! "

an anonymous reader wrote in to ask "I was wondering if anyone was able to get some of the popular PCI modems working under Linux, and if so how? "

Our erswhile admin Jesse Shrieve sent this story our way. Great article about the growth of Linux, and being a smart online paper, also lists some of the favorite places to get. The article features a great graphic, which Jesse has happily provided for us here (large) and here (small). Check it out.

Eric Green writes "Jesse Berst is at it again. He says "Linux will never go mainstream" and that NT will be the standard desktop within a few years." NT will be the standard desktop, but I guess it depends how you define mainstream. I have a hard time thinking linux is really 'alternative' when it has 8 million users, and is growing faster than MacOS.

tgd writes "This week (Septermber 7th) issue of Inter@ctive Week has a cover story about Dell being the first major PC supplier to offer Linux as on option on their systems. They've been doing it for about 18 months informally, but are now formally offering it."

Hetz Ben Amo sent us this link talking about how not only has Oracle decided to go work with Linux, but has setup parternships with Red Hat Software and VA Research, SuSE, and Japanese firm Pacific HiTech. Very cool-anyone know anything more about this?

colmconn writes "I've been waiting a long time for this and it's finally happened Linux has finally made it into an Irish newspaper, read all about it at here " I think at this point, nearly every developed nation has heard of Linux.

farrellj writes "I just noticed a device in the Slackware 3.5 distribution that is called "unix". That's right, there is a /dev/unix. I'm wondering what it for...unix correctness...do you link your console to it and everything comes out in "real" unix???"

Russ wrote in to send us a link to Oracle where you can register to get a prerelease copy of Oracle 8 for Linux. I'm sure a decent number of folks out there might be interested in such a thing.

Nils Lohner posted to debian-announce that Debian will be at the Atlanta Linux Showcase (which seems to be coming together nicely. Wish I could go). Anyway, Debian will be there showing off their distribution running on a Netwinder, as well as t-shirts, CDs, and a demo of the new package manager (I'm getting shivers waiting for that).

Freshmeat is carrying another LSB editorial. This one points out that if a standard does not come out soon, it may be superseded by a de-facto standard such as the much rumoured "IBM Linux". Instead of a cathedral like institution, a community effort led by a reasonable dictator would not only be more "linux-like", but also more effective.

Dominique Rousseau writes "Just to announce the launch of a new magazine in here in France entirely dedicated to Linux. They don't bother following the news since it's a 3-month period publication but they have a quite good content. Check it out."