Q&A with Darren Starr Lead programmer of the Opera for Linux port QT edition.

Just got the offical word from id Software that the Linux release of the Quake 3: Arena demo is here. Download either the (LG Local Mirror) tar.gz or the RPM.

The Linux version of Lotus Domino R5 has gone into a Gold version and is available for download from this site.

I have been in this situation several times before and I will tell you what did I do about this. Even if you are not in a leader position in your department there are plenty of ways to introduce GNU/Linux in your workplace.

There seems to be a lot going on in the Linux world right now. The upcoming release of the 2.4 kernel, major headway in the area of DVD support, expanded support for hardware in general and much more.

CNN: When the antitrust suit waged by the federal government and 19 states against Microsoft culminated in Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's historic, 207-page finding of fact, it was cause for celebration among many in the Linux community. After all, Microsoft had recently begun to bring its heavy guns to bear on Linux.

IBM has ported Linux to its S/390 mainframe platform, but is keeping the news - which could send shockwaves throughout the industry - under wraps for now. An attendee at a mainframe conference held earlier this autumn said that IBM, "talked about but did not announce Linux/390. The future technical session showed foils about Linux/390."

The Provo, Utah company, which recently announced it would publish its own open-source license for its DigitalMe, NDS for Linux client, and the management interface to its Internet Caching System (ICS), is now opening up the source code for select portions of one of its crown jewels, NetWare Directory Services (NDS), said several sources at Comdex.

Kenwood makes state of the art home and car audio systems, but its back-office computing system was as obsolete as eight-track tapes.

AT Comdex 99, non-PC devices are stealing the show, industry leaders are spouting off about the supremacy of Internet computing over clunky PCs, and Linus Torvalds and his open-source operating system, Linux, appear ready for primetime.