Damien Miller writes "This article States that NT's popularity is partly due to unrealistic user expectations (driven by MS Marketing), that Unix is not declining and that 14% of coporate shops already have Linux installed."

Alexandre G wrote in with this link to an article at 32 Bits Online where you can read about Office Suites for Linux. Its a series of article that will be covering Applix and StarOffice as well as something called AndrewUser Interface System that I've never heard of. Looks like it'll be interesting- check it out as the week continues."

Ok, Justin sent me this link and I just had to post it. It discusses Prostitution in the penguin world, and well, I've been Raku Firing ceramic bowls since 8 this morning and I'm in just the frame of mind to think that this is the funniest thing since the invention of funny. Maybe its not, but I'm gonna post it anyway and then fire a couple more loads of bowls. Isn't clay fun?

Linus took some time from his busy schedule to put kernel 2.1.97 in its rightful place. Major updates include major PowerPC and Macintosh updates, major sparc and sparc64 updates.

Kendall Koning has written in with a mini editorial that everyone should read. In addition, read The Linux Advocacy Mini HOWTO, On many occasions, Linux users appear to be more of a mob than a team. I've fallen prey to this more than a few times in the thousand articles I've posted on these pages. Its something that we all need to work on if we want Linux to truly be mainstream.

Karl J. Smith wrote in to tell us that Linus v3.0 (Linus' second daughter) was born at 9:04 yesterdat morning. Congratulations Linus, enjoy the additional diaper duty!

Ben Kosse writes "In this week's PC Week magazine, Peter Coffee let's us know what we already knew: Linux is considered a proven choice in some enterprise-class sites. This tidbit is at the very end of an article which basically points out even more stuff we already knew: Microsoft doesn't have a Mission Critical Operating System."

Vertigo writes " While reading some newsgroups i came across this article: http://www.32bitsonline.com/Issues/april98/redhatlinux.shtm it's a very positive review of RedHat 5.0 .. it was published today, 15 april.. so still fairly recent ;) " Ya gotta love this kinda press.

Linus, favorite kernel developer to many souls, released kernel 2.1.96 to the world. Weighing in at over 11MB compressed, the major changes include many ARM updates, many many SCSI driver updates, and a few net code updates.

Scott James Remnant wrote in with a comment about BeDope, and how cool it is. So cool in fact that he wants to work on a Hinux focused humor site. If you are interested in helping in joining in on this project (Hey, I'll write a Slashdot Parody!) you should send `subscribe' to `lindope-request@lantonet.com' (Scott also notes that this is just a working title- a real one will be determined later). The idea isn't to duplicate BeDope (which is already a hilarious site) but to have a centralized place for Linux related humor. I'm all for that.

Atul Chitnis wrote in to tell us "India's premier computing magazine, PC Quest takes on the "real corporate world" with it's April issue's editorial. This is a curtain raiser for the May issue, which will have RedHat Linux 5.0 plus huge amounts of apps and utilities (plus all the bug fixes) on the cover CD."

JEDIDIAH sent us this link where you can read about the US Postal Office using Linux to run OCR at the post office to help route our mail. Very cool stuff.

So anyone who didn't have major plans this weekend can add compiling and booting 2.1.95 to the list of stuff that needs to be done. It's a bug fix release (woohoo!) with the new SMP-safe disk drivers.

jeff covey wrote in to tell us that he asked NPR to start a Linux Discussion on their discussion pages. You can join in here. I'm quite amazed at the positive stuff I've heard about NPR after their little Linux story a few days ago.

James Baughn writes "InfoWorld has posted an interview with Linus at this location "Linus Torvalds talks economics and operating systems" "

Linus, being the kind hearted developer he is, decided to release Linux 2.1.94 to the usual place. Only a few KB away from 11MB, updates include sound documentation, MAJOR sound updates, and init fixes for those having trouble with 2.1.93 on non-x86 platforms.

Linus, being the generous saint he, tossed out kernel 2.1.93 at the normal place. At almost 11MB zipped, updates include many architechture-specific bugfixes, IDE updates, NIC and PCI updates, and many FS and SCSI fixes.

David F. Skoll writes "There's a nice story in Integrated System Design, a magazine for electronic designers, about why engineers prefer UNIX to NT. There's positive mention of Linux. Read it here As an electrical engineer, I'm happy to see ISD editorials like this!"

ZDNet is running an interesting editorial titled "The next battleground: Linux vs. Windows". The article discusses the possibility of Linux being the operating system to possibly dethrone Windows. I personally feel we've got a lot of work to do, but it's not too outrageous a possibility!

MH311 (Mike Hamrick) writes "Yesterday, Marc Andreessen made some pretty bold statements to the Silicon Valley Linux Users Group. He said that the combination of Netscape source code and Linux operating system could eventually unseat Windows. Read more at techweb"