Iñaky Perez Gonzalez writes "I have released the latest snapshot of the Linux USB code (UUSBD); it is somehow useful, because now you can read from a keyboard the pressed keys ..."

Kernel development seems to go real fast these days. You can check out the updates in 2.1.119 at the Cutting Edge site. In the mean time 2.1.210 pre-patch 1 is already available at ftp.kernel.org.

Jim Kinney sent us a link to this SunWorld Article where you can read that SCO is in the process of making their Unix run unaltered Linux binaries out of the box.

Simon Janes writes "The Red Herring is running an article this Sept on Transmeta called Stalking Transmeta. They were making up their "Herring 100" and rumors started coming out again about Transmeta so they had to investigate. They learned, nothing. :)"

Hetz Ben Hamo got the exclusive scoop from SciTech, makers of the Display Doctor, with more information about what the soon-to-be-released beta will have, as well as future plans. This is good stuff-more games, more display-related materials (obviously). Click below to get the full message.

We have another development kernel: 2.1.118. Scrolling throught the 400K patchfile I saw video drivers and updates in various other places. You can grab it at ftp.kernel.org.

subhas sent us a link to a fairly standard anti-linux article. It covers all the usual arguments against the OS, but paints it as just the latest pawn in the database vendor wars. He doesn't question the technical stuff, just the lack of support. InfoWorld gave Linux best tech support, does that mean anything? What about Red Hat and Caldera? Maybe it isn't as much about support as marketing. Well that, and Linux can be a bit rough on newbies, but even that is changing rapidly.

Sean wrote in to send us this link to a response from Adobe about a Linux port of Photoshop. They say exactly what you would expect (not enough demand to justify a port) and something you wouldn't (they suggest looking at the Gimp).

Jeremy Arnold has written an essay on what he calls LUTE- the Linux Usability Testing and Evaluation project. It could help make programs more usable by organizing volunteers to test software and clean things up. Far to often great programmers aren't the best at creating the ideal user interface. Perhaps this project could put people who understand the human factors in touch with the guys who write the killer code. Hit the link below to read it and throw in your 2 bits.

matt writes "From a Sun Press release at Dr. Joseph Reger, Director of Technology Marketing at Siemens Nixdorf, explains, "it is true that HP will not have to do an endian transition, but it is also true that HP's Unix, HP-UX, is probably going to be the only operating system on IA-64 that runs in big endian mode. To my knowledge all flavors of UNIX on IA-64: Solaris, Linux, Santa Cruz Operation's UNIX, Digital's UNIX... and you name it--all UNIX will run on IA-64 in little endian mode and NT certainly will run in little endian mode. "

It's definately been a hot topic lately, no doubt about it. But Daniel Quinlan wrote in to send us a press release from the LSB stating that the Debian/Red Hat standards project (LCS) will be working with the LSB. Daniel has also been named as Bruce Perens replacement as the head of LSB. Besides having an @transmeta.com email address, Daniel has been the head of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. I'm really glad to see this come together. Anyway, I've attached the announcement- click below if you want to read it.

Eric S. Raymond wrote in to seek out some help for maintaining the ever popular Sunsite archives. You can click the link below to read what this will mean. Hopefully there a few kind souls out there that can help keep this important site running smoothly. Update Eric wrote back to say thanks, he's got over 100 responses, plus Red Hat has donated money to hire someone to help keep Sunsite alive.

D. Koppenheffer writes "LA Times has a story on Linux this morning." As well, Corey Saltiel sent us an article by Petreley about the in-fighting within the Linux community. Read more here.

Continuing the stream of good press on Linux, Techweb is carrying an article about the benefits of Linux. Thanks to talon for pointing this one out.

Freshmeat is carrying an editorial by Ian Nandhra of NC-Labs, one of the founders of the LSA (=XYZ). He chides slashdot readers but does not address their main concern: the notion that the LSA will own IP, and that the definition of LSA standards is not truely open to all (LSA can refuse to renew a membership), as is traditional in Linux. He does not seem to realise that many readers agree that a standard is necessary to maintain the diversity of Linux distributions -- but neither at the price of diversity nor at the price of abandonning open methods.

dan peterson writes "Our machine, happy.digitaldune.net, is a widely used machine on the internet. we help debian people with cvs and with the debian-doc project. the power went out today, and now our machine is telling us the partition table for /dev/hdc1 (/home! ack!) is bad. fsck tells us: "attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/hdc1". acan you or anyone help us out on this? this drive has 5.5G of our life on it! :)"

Eric Harlow writes "The story is listed about a "NT 5.0 reality check" story. You know it's getting mainstream when CNN writes about it." Forbes. CNN. PBS. The Wall Street Journal. Excellent.

Soh Kam Yung writes "IEEE Software has put out a call for articles on Linux to be published in the January issue of IEEE Software magazine. See the call for articles (at linux resources) for more information on what kind of materials they want. "

With all the hostility and sadness in the world today, how about something a little cheery? Alan Cox sent us this link where you can read about a beowulf cluster built for no cost out of donated 486s. The article has pictures that'll make ya smile.

Chris Farris writes "As per popular request from /.errs, the dates our speakers will be speaking at the Atlanta Linux Showcase have been posted to The Website . "