“Linux gives you the power to define how you work. It gives you choices. When you work with that other OS day in and day out, choice isn’t really something you need to worry about. There is one way to do things, and that is pretty much that. Linux, in an effort to be helpful, complicates the matter. Choice? What am I supposed to do with that? Well, for one thing, by defining how you work and the environment you work in, you may find that you work better–after all, the machine is supposed to mold to your needs and not the other way around. At least that’s what we were originally led to believe.” From a story at Linux Journal.

From a Business Wire press release: Microlite Corporation announces a new release of its popular BackupEDGE backup and disaster recover software for UNIX and Linux.

After years of work by a cast of thousands, the first non-beta release Netscape 6.0 takes a bow. Windows, Macintosh, and Linux versions are now available on the Netscape FTP server in the form of a network installer. Slashdot readers discuss the new browser.

From Slashdot: Jon Katz reviews Russell Pavlicek’s Embracing Insanity: Open Source Software Development, an “impassioned little book that purports to explain to the non-geek world in particular why they should care about the Open Source movement and the success of OS systems like Linux and FreeBSD.”

The Annual Linux Showcase was outstanding. The November Troubleshooting Professional Magazine chronicles the conference, and discusses how ALS shapes GNU/Linux’s future.
– Submitted by Steve Litt

Linux Today reports on Analyst Day, where investment banking and securities firm Goldman Sachs continued its “market outperform” rating on Red Hat’s
stock and noting that the Red Hat Network shows some promise and “could become a valuable conduit between Red Hat and its end users.”

“While a number of groups are leading the open source charge into the highly
specialized battlegrounds of medical informatics, barriers to the adoption of open
source software persist, delaying what may be an ideal solution to the burgeoning
problems of the health care IT arena.
The health care industry would seem to present the perfect challenge for open source
design: one would think that an organization requiring a stable, secure operating
system able to manage a number of different types of data with complete integration
and the kind of ease-of-use most physicians need would have open source written
all over it. But the health care industry’s information technology status remains largely
in the Dark Ages–even as healthcare’s growing complexity cries out for
cutting-edge technology solutions.”

It’s from LinuxNews.com.

CNet has a story about MandrakeSoft, with officials there announcing the 7.2 release, but also saying they’re modeling themselves after Red Hat’s business plan in some ways.

Apache Week has several announcements including this one: “Apache 1.3.14 is the current stable release. Users of Apache 1.3.12 and earlier on Unix and Windows systems should upgrade to
this version. Read the Guide to 1.3.14, the Guide to 1.3.12, the Guide to 1.3.11 for information about changes between 1.3.9 and
1.3.11 and the Guide to 1.3.9 for information about changes between 1.3.6 and 1.3.9.”

Linux Devices has a column by the developer of the Linux Trace Toolkit tracing its history.