From a 32bitsonline review: “The comic strip User Friendly
(http://www.userfriendly.org), written by J.D.
“Illiad” Frazer, has quickly reached cult status
amongst UNIX administrators, programmers, and
users. Why is this the case? Illiad has a knack
for depicting graphically what?s on everyone?s
mind-that the world of computers has gone
completely to hell.”

Ever wonder what BSD Unix is all about? Chris Coleman, maintainer of the BSD Development Center at www.oreilly.com and editor of Daemon News at www.daemonnews.org on BSD Unix, explains it. The
story is at Inter@ctive Week.

From a story at Inter@ctive Week: Both Linux and BSD are growing faster as server systems on the Internet than their competitors, including Microsoft’s Windows NT and Windows 2000 combined, according to Nancy Stewart, senior analyst at Survey.com, an Internet market research firm that surveys information technology executives on their purchasing plans. In addition, Linux and FreeBSD, an open-source version of the BSD OS, are expected to grow 177 percent as Web server systems by the end of 2001, Stewart says, compared with a loss of 7 percent for Windows NT/2000 and a loss of 11.2 percent for proprietary Unix, such as Hewlett-Packard’s HP-UX and Sun Microsystems’ Solaris.”

Opera Software, PalmPalm
Technology Inc., and Trolltech have announced the formation of a strategic
alliance for the Asian wireless Linux market. The three companies will jointly
develop “Linux Total Solution for Wireless Internet Appliance” for hardware
manufacturers in the wireless Internet space. Read the press release at LinuxPR.

From a review at LWN.net: “Linux audio has long lacked for useful documentation; this
book nicely fills in part of that void. As a guide for clueful musicians and a general
overview of the depth and variety of Linux audio software it is great; it will prove a
little less helpful for beginners trying to figure out how to do simple things.”

Penguin Computing,
a provider of reliable Linux systems for Internet serving, announced that it will begin offering Red Hat Linux 7 on its
systems. The latest version of the industry-leading distribution of Linux offers
users greater security and manageability, enhancing Linux as a platform for
the enterprise. The press release is at LinuxPR.

From a column at eWeek: “While evaluating for this week’s issue the Nautilus graphical shell developed by Eazel — a crew with original Macintosh interface designers at its core — my thoughts turned often to Apple’s upcoming OS X and how much more of a pain it’ll be to put OS X through its paces than just about any up-and-coming to far-fetched OS out there.”

Reuters is reporting that Motorola’s wholly-owned subsidiary Metrowerks has agreed to invest $22.5 million in Lineo, which develops Linux software and apps.

Intel Corp. says a number of the world’s largest Linux
vendors have decided to adopt the chip giant’s Common Data
Security Architecture software infrastructure for security
services. Several Linux players said they will use
the security software in their
operating systems, reports IDG.net. A related press release from Business Wire: Caldera Systems has announced that the company is
collaborating with Intel and Bull to bring Intel’s Common Data Security Architecture (CDSA)
to Linux.

Slashdot readers talk about the latest Red Hat release. One reader: “So, is anyone brave enough to try and upgrade from 6.2 to 7.0?” LinuxWorld.com has a story on the release.