John Ello wrote in to tell us " Apparently Redhat included a 'redneck' dialect option in Redhat 5.1. " Ya know, this is the stuff that makes me happy to be running linux. Sorta like when I use sudo and get an error message like "This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.". Stuff like that just makes everything much more entertaining. It's the little things that make me happy I guess.

Techweb points out the number of large players that have recently joined the Linux community in its coverage of Corel openning its source code. But it tempers its enthusiasm quoting the nay-sayers who always seem to associate Open Source with dying companies.

I just finished scanning a few shots I took at the Linux Expo. Go look at them. I'll put more up soon, these are just the ones I got to first. I had a great time, and I'll probably put up a writeup soon. I'd also like to thank everyone for letting me photograph them.

Brad wrote in to plug the Linux Software Archive that they've got at Linux Central. The thing is $6, and has 4 CDs containing basically anything you could desire downloading in the next few months. Includes Commercial Apps (WordPerfect, VisualSlickedit etc) and other cool stuff (Gnome, KDE, VNC, Lesstif etc). If you're on a 28.8 connect (sigh) this may be a nice way to save you a few days download time *grin*.

karsten self wrote in to tell us LWN is running a bit saying that the LSB has been getting a lot of approval out at the expo. This is a Good Thing(tm) and I'm glad to see it.

Thomas Charron writes " Well, apperently Microsoft slowly creeps it's luminesent cloud over yet another mountain.. This Link reports that Microsoft will soon release Active Servers pages for many popular web servers, including Linux.. (Sigh) This is reminding me of a B rated movie where some blob eats and eats, and grows to eat everything.. Hrm.. Didn't the original ending to Little House of Horrors sound like this? Seriously, though, it's silly.. SSI and CGI is plenty good enough without Active Server Pages.. HEck, even Microsoft has stopped using them on THEIR OWN web site becouse it was bogging them down so bad.. "

Demon writes "Corel Corporation is extending its support and development commitment to the Linux operating system, currently being used by an estimated 7 million people worldwide. The award-winning software developer will release Corel® WordPerfect® 8 Personal and Server Editions for Linux this summer and plans to develop a suite of business applications for the Linux platform, More Info: link"

It's been quite a day folks. I decided that I will take a few minutes to give everyone a bit more details about the adventures that we're having out here. Hit the link below to read everything that I can think of that happened today that might have been interesting.

Cool stuff here folks... tons of cool people to chat with and cool toys to look at. Very much fun. The Corel folks are here showing off their NetWinder NC. It's so cute... seeing one only confirms my intsense desire to own one. Cobalt Micro is also here showing off their tiny little server. Yet another small monitorless computer that I really would like to own. By far the coolest machine is the various XTreme boxes. Paralogic has em From $6k to $60k, these bad boys run Linux, are the size of a refrigerator and, and clock in at up to 445 SPECint95's. Mommy? Can I have a super computer for christmas?

Joe Desbonnet writes "Photos from the Linux Expo are being uploaded to this location as we take them. "

JammerJJ sent in this update to our recent story about PCQuest. The May issue dedicated to Linux has come out, and hopefully it will continue to spread Linux to the Indian sub-continent. It's always nice to wake-up to good press.

Tim Macinta wrote in with a very simple question, that I never thought about before. He asks " are there any Linux centric companies which are publicly traded? I've spent several hours looking for one but the closest thing I've found is Netscape. If there are any, I'd like to help them out by buying a little of their stock. Of course this would probably help me out too because I think that this would be a good time to invest in such a company."

Kenneth R. Kinder has written an editorial entitled The Purer OS. He speaks about an issue that has manifested itself in many ways- the desire for Linux to be 100% completely free, from the kernel to every instruction that gets executed on it. I disagree with this one, but it is a major issue that needs to be addressed. So read what he has to say and decide for yourself. Should everything on Linux be free, or is there room for closed source competition on an open source OS?

James S. Blachly writes "I'm putting together a FAQ for porting games to linux. If you have something to contribute, please visit here. and mail me. I'll try to have something compiled in a week to a week and a half. "

Jesse wrote in to tell us that RH5.1 (Manhattan) has made an appearance on kernel.org's mirror. Interested folks should definately check the mirrors list and be warned- I checked a few other mirrors and am not seeing the 5.1 dir on most of them, but kernel.org is on the official mirrors list, so I'm assuming this is legit.

zCat sent us a link to this ZD Net Link. It's a pretty fair piece on some ways; it discusses why Linux caught on when it did, but it also says Linux's 15 minutes are up, due to lack of clear direction. I disagree- Linux's direction is only up. Netscape & Caldera have thrown muscle behind it, the newbie UI issues are being ironed out as KDE and Gnome become more practical. Things are looking peachy.

Edward Carter writes "You can now listen to Week 4 of Project Heresy at this location Among other things, the people at news.com point out that different version of libc and the necessity to compile applications or even ther kernel may prevent many users from being able to use Linux. However, they also notice that Linux has not once crashed for either of them. "

Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote in to say that Red Hat has now really announced the release date of Red Hat v5.1. I screwed up this one, thats for sure. Oh well. You can pre order your CD at their web site. The 3rd CD is full of Bonus Apps- lite versions and demos. They should throw in a 4th CD in 5.2 and dump their contrib dir in :)

Red Hat Software has announced that they will ship v5.1 of their distribution on June 1. The full distro will come on 3 cds, feature better installation and administrative tools, as well as updating everything you'd expect from the previous release.

Linus, keynote speaker at this year's Linux Expo, put kernel 2.1.103 in its rightful place. Updates this patch include: i386 updates, paride (parallel port IDE) updates, PCI, and SCSI updates.