“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.

TechWeb reports on the revival of the Alpha name by Alpha Processor company.

Wired News reports that 3com has settled out of court with its share-holders which came about after the company’s merger with US Robotics.

Wired News reports that 3com has settled out of court with its share-holders which came about after the company’s merger with US Robotics.

Wired News reports that 3com has settled out of court with its share-holders which came about after the company’s merger with US Robotics.

ZDNet evaluates Linux’ growing credibility among business in light of IBM’s recently announced contract for the sale of 15000 Linux-installed computers to a Japanese firm.