Pixami has added Linux support in response to the operating system’s overwhelming adoption on the Internet, and by the online photo industry in particular. From BusinessWire.

Reuters reports that online auctions have sparked the largest number of complaints to a new U.S. government office tracking fraud on the Internet.

A typical computer game centers around a violent war zone piled high with corpses, reports WiredNews.com. But what if those
bullets turned the bloody bodies into a field of healthy humans, frolicking among the flowers?

“Not all users of proprietary systems look upon Linux enthusiasts with disdain. The
last place I worked at, the networking department installed a proprietary firewall
system that had a limitation of 100 active rules.” From OSOpinion.

You thought Office 95 was a big deal? ZDNN reports that Microsoft is lifting
the veil of secrecy around what it claims will be its ‘most
significant’ desktop suite to date.

From a column at OSOpinion: “Open source software has an implicit connection to RFC standards-based
protocols. There are many reasons for this, and one of them may even be laziness
(it is easier to follow standards than to re-invent them) but the net result is best
exemplified by our star child of the open source movement, the Internet world of
open participation.”

In many ways, Randall Sprolles is like most mainstream Linux investors. The father of a college
computer science student, Sprolles says he didn’t find out about the free software operating system
until he started reading magazines in an effort to catch up with the latest high-tech trends. From UpsideToday.com.

Dennis Howell at LinuxPlanet.com writes: “Last week I dove into the boxes, looking for the shop manual for an ancient British Seagull outboard
motor. Early in the process I found, of all things, a copy of the April 11, 1989 PC Magazine. I made the
mistake of opening it.”

Day one of the African Computing and
Telecommunications summit (ACT 2000) kicked off with a plenary session
entitled ?E-commerce – Hype or Reality?? and featured presentations by
Andile Ngcaba, director-general of the Department of Communications,
Richard Lawson, CEO of Lawson Software, and Ayisi Makatiani, CEO of
Africa Online Kenya.Story at ITWeb.

Day one of the African Computing and
Telecommunications summit (ACT 2000) kicked off with a plenary session
entitled ?E-commerce – Hype or Reality?? and featured presentations by
Andile Ngcaba, director-general of the Department of Communications,
Richard Lawson, CEO of Lawson Software, and Ayisi Makatiani, CEO of
Africa Online Kenya.Story at ITWeb.