eWeek reports on Hewlett-Packard’s plans for LWE, including demonstrations of Linux system manageability software.

Eric S. Raymond writes:
“What comes after the classic Unix environment variables PAGER, MAILER,
and EDITOR? Why, “BROWSER,” of course — an environment variable that
informs programs of the user’s preferred web bowser for launching URLs.
My latest experiment in hacking social systems is to find out whether
the open-source community can successfully manage to adopt a standard
that requires small but coordinated changes to possibly as many as
several dozen projects in order to make it really effective.
I’ve written, tested, and submitted patches to Gnu Emacs, Python, and
urlview(1) that make them aware of the new BROWSER environment
variable. I have also submitted a patch for the Linux environ(5)
manual page.
Widely publicizing that I’m doing all this is also an essential part
of the experiment. How far will this meme spread? Can we bootstrap a
new standard environment variable into existence at this late date in
Unix’s evolution?
There’s a BROWSER project page at
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/BROWSER.
There, I will log reports of BROWSER support being folded into other
programs that must call browsers.”

Avatar writes: “As promised, Evil3D has revisted the 0.9-6 drivers from NVIDIA with the fix in place. This time around the scores are dramatically different in several key areas. Also detailed in the revisit is how to apply the fix to your system.

You can find the new data right here at evil3d.net.”

Another anonymous reader (or maybe even the same one) clues us to a searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com story: “Although Linux was created in Europe and is used around the globe, it still lacks many language support and multinational capabilities. Find out about the Linux community’s efforts to internationalize the OS in this in-depth SearchEnterpriseLinux.com report.”

The ever faithful anonymous reader tells us about a searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com story featuring
Linuxcare Chief Technology Officer David L. Sifry talking about a possible merger between his Linux technology services company and Linux distributor TurboLinux Inc.

ZDNet reports this gem Wednesday morning: “A range of Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) online sites including Microsoft.com, MSN.com,
MSNBC.com, WindowsMedia.com, Hotmail.com, Encarta.com and Carpoint.com. have
been down or disrupted for several hours.” Slashdotters discuss the problems.

AOL is looking to refocus Netscape.com, making it into a hub for “entertainment and editorial content” like Time magazine. This from ZDNET.co.uk and one of its myriad anonymous sources.

ZDNET.co.uk also has the scoop on Intel’s upcoming price cuts. They say that Pentium 4 is coming down by 20%, and the Pentium 3 is dropping 42%. Time to upgrade.

ZDNET.co.uk reports that, at long last, Sun and Microsoft have come to terms on the whole Java thing. Sun is now allowed to terminate the licensing agreement it had with Redmond.

Sensei writes “What is kHTTPd? It’s a webserver that handles only static (file based, non-cgi/php) webpages, and passes all requests for non-static (dynamic) information to a regular userspace-webserver such as Apache or Zeus. This is beneficial because it offloads the delivery of static webpages to the kernel, allowing the userspace-webserver program (such as apache) to do what it does best: deliver dynamic contenet (cgi-bin, php). In a nutshell, it makes your webserver work faster, which means you can serve up more pr0n err, useful files faster…yes…heh heh heh. From Linuxnewbie.org“