Jon Read wrote in to tell us that Ed Bailey from Red Hat is porting the Linux Kernel to t the CL-PS7110 chip (Psion Series 5 and Geofox One palmtops use 'em) check out more at RedHat. Very excellent. Ya know the first company that makes a wireless Linux palmtop will make some money. 900mhz ethernet or so?

James Carter wrote in with an open letter to Dan Shafer about his investigation of Linux. It's a nice feel-good piece on Linux and how bright its future is. It's also pretty important for Journalist types to take note of it since Linux is growing in the media at an amazing clip. Follow the link below to read it.

First, I'm going to try to designate articles that are meant to be funny. Hope this doesn't spoil the joke for anyone, but we had a few people confused over some of the more subtle jokes. Anyway, Mike Perry wrote in with proof (?) that 1998 is in fact the year of Linux. Its pretty funny. Hit the link below and wonder at the lengths Linux users will go to.

Allen wrote in to tell us that Debian has officially frozen, and to warn us that 'Hamm' should be out in 38 (well, 37 now) days. Looking forward to it.

Mention one and the floodgates open. First Chris Seawood wrote in to tell us that The Kernel-Panic LUG is doing an installfest tomorrow night (Sat Mar 14). Read more on their site. Second Uzi wrote in to tell me that RedHat's road tour is stopping at UCLA tomorrow as well. Check here for more details.

Kurt Gray wrote in to tell us that the Boston LUG is having their third annual installfest on March 21. (details on their page). Its $25/per person/machine, but thats still a bargain compared to hiring a Unix consultant $80 an hour to do it for you, plus you get to learn from the wisdom of people who have probably done this a few times before *grin*.

Derek Simkowiak wrote in to tell us that RedHat's Road Tour is coming through Seattle on Monday. Puget Sound LUG is hosting, Derek just wanted me to plug this event since they only have 4 days to promote it and he wants a serious turnout. Read more at this site. Wish I could come.

Henrik Edlund writes "Yes, in their late broadcast today they talk about to seriously evaluate Linux. They want to see if you can "live outside the Windows village". They also ask Linux users to write in about product solutions. They make lots of funny jokes about Windows and say that Linux is a real contender. COOL! Listen to their RealAudio broadcast (20:00 minutes in) here."

Amos Shapira wrote in to tell us that those nutty Debian guys are planning a feature freeze on v2.0 of their very cool distribution. We should see the final 2.0 a few weeks later assuming nothing explodes.

Christopher Blizzard wrote in to tell us that RedHat has updated their Linux Marketshare page with new and improved 1998 numbers. There are a ton of interesting numbers in here ranging from Linux's share of Unix users, circulations of various magazines, FTP downloads, Mirror sites, CD sales.

Aspirin The Fox writes "As of July '98 a major training company, Learning Tree International, will be offering a course entitled 'Introduction to Linux'. Another cool sign of Linux's increasing mainstreamness. " You can read more here.

DJ Ierardi writes "I don't recall seeing this posted here: Ralph Nader encourages Michael Dell to pre-install Linux" here is the link. Sure, it won't happen, but it's still interesting.

Andy Tai writes "In this USA today artcle discussing the future of Microsoft Windows, Linux is mentioned as one potential competitor to overthrow Microsoft's monopoly." The article doesn't say anything that Slashdot readers don't know- but once again, it got mentioned in the 'Main Stream'.

Jens Bäckman writes "I just found this link. Hard to believe they finally found out that Linux is a serious operating system, not just for hackers and wizards." I'm still waiting for the big PC Magazine Cover Story where they compare Operating Systems and Linux wins. Maybe somebody at ZD reads this and gives it a shot.

Sam Ockman wrote in to tell us about some more tidbits about last nights SVLUG. It seems that RedHat, O'Reily and VA Research gave out the first Open Source Award to (surprise!) Linus! Valued at $5k, it included a decked out VA Research Workstation. Sam also mentioned that 480 people attended last night. Wish I lived in CA- would have loved to have been there. Very cool stuff.

Alan Bailward wrote in to send us an article posted to comp.os.announce.linux by Lou Rinaldi wrote ">If anyone else is interested, I am planning a small sort of "free unix rally" at a Microsoft seminar in Hartford on March 5th. From 9 AM till noon at the Sheraton on Trumbull Street, microsoft is having a briefing on win98 and exchange 5.5 (event code 15930). My plan is to get as many of us there as possible, wearing linux/BSD t-shirts and handing out CD-ROMs to increase awareness (and combat ignorance). If you're interested, email me. "

This is absolutely wonderful. It would be cool if when Microsoft sponsored events, Linux had representatives outside quietly wearing cool t-shirts and passing out CD's. Anyone want to coordinate a web site that tracks events and volunteers and accepts donations to pay for cd's?

Leif Hardison wrote in to tell us that he has a web form available now at Hardware.doa.org for tracking hardware and linux distributions. Numbers are necessary if we're going to convince the suits that Linux is viable. Sites like this need our support.

Dave Finton was the first to send in this link where you can read about Linus' plans for global domination through Linux. It's a pretty funny article really.

Paul Martin wrote in to tell us about another great story showing the positive stuff behind RedHat and Linux. The good press just keeps coming and coming. Linux is a machine gaining recognition at an amazing rate- hope everyone enjoys the ride.

Chris DiBona wrote in to say "Linus Torvalds will be appearing wednesday March 4th at the monthly meeting of the Silicon Valley Linux Users Group (http://www.svlug.org) See the web page for more details!"