In a recent Mac Product Watch over at ZDNet, Jack Jansen’s Mac port of Python 2.0 was announced. It is available from the official website.

Slashdot has a discussion about the Xanim media player for Linux. They also have a link to a feature list for interested programmers

Some skills and achievements look better on CVs than others. James Gosling, vice-president and fellow
of Sun Microsystems, can add a pretty good bullet-point to his career history: ‘Creator of the Java
programming language.’

More recently, he’s been directing his attention towards Mr Gates and the monolithic Microsoft
Corporation. He’s put those famous pictures of Gates receiving a pie in the face on his website. More
importantly, Gosling was one of the 12 witnesses at the Microsoft trial. From Linuxtoday.com.

You just a need a minimal system with a 386 processor and 8MB of RAM. HAL91 comes along with harddisk and CD-ROM support but it runs directly from
floppy out of a RAM disk.
A special feature of HAL91 is the included minimal support for NE2000 compliant network hardware and the ability to establish a PPP connection over a null
modem cable (via the ppp-nullmodem script). From Linux Gazette.

Linux Gazette reports: “Narval is an Intelligent Personal Assistant software, released under the GNU Public License by Logilab. It was used to set up Gazo, a bot that is assisting the group
of volunteers that translates Linux Gazette into French, by taking care of most of the coordination-related work. Narval features artificial intelligence and agent
technologies and contributes to change the way we use the Internet and computers. Narval stands for Network Assistant Reasoning with a Validating Agent
Language.”

“Roll out the red carpet, it’s time to announce the winners of the 2000 Linux Journal Readers’ Choice Awards. After another explosive year, the hype and trendiness
have cleared to reveal (as we knew it would) that Linux is a serious contender in almost every market. Although some speculate that the development of all things
Linux has settled down, we know the revolution is gaining breadth and speed. “

The Linux Journal brings us this reminiscence: “I learned a lot about computers from my Color Computer. I wrote programs in BASIC and assembly language. I also had lots of fun playing the arcade type games.
I expanded my computer from 16K of RAM with no mass storage to 64K of RAM with 2 floppy drives. The computer was even able to run the OS-9 which is a
UNIX-like operating system that allows multiple users on one computer. I actually had a dumb terminal connected to the serial port of my 64K Color Computer and
had two programs running at once!”

“During the first years of Java’s phenomenal growth in popularity, I fully endorsed Sun’s controlling authority over Java.
Sure, Sun did it in part to make money on licensing (as if that’s a bad thing), but the bottom line was that Sun had no
choice but to assert its control.” LinuxWorld reports.

Slashdot has the story and discussion relating to the recent announcement by the Liberal party stating their intentions to have broadband access in every community in Canada by 2004.

Linux Weekly News has a press release from a Linux conference in Bangalore, India.