A story at LinuxWorld deals with the crucial issue of accessing Windows files from Linux. “Anyone who uses both Linux and Windows knows the problem. You need a couple of files that are on the Windows partition, but
you forgot to copy them to a floppy or to the server before rebooting to Linux. Wouldn’t it be great if you could just access those
files from Linux, you think, as you prepare yourself for two more reboots.

As it turns out, there are a number of ways to solve that problem. You can mount your Windows partitions under Linux and you can
access your ext2 filesystems under Windows.”

The Duke of URL has a review: “This is the first release of Linux that is said to truly stack up against Windows as far as speed and compatibility go. It wasn’t too long ago that Linux
didn’t have much support, but in the last year we’ve seen many vendors hop on the bandwagon. NVidia, ATI, Abit, Lexmark, 3dfx, and SMC are
just a few of the vendors that showed their support in Linux over the last year. Still, many companies need to come around, as many third-party
hackers were needed to even spur developments of drivers for Linux.”

Kelly McNeill tells us about another column at OS Opinion: “As long as all the Linux vendors keep their integrity, play by the rules of the GPL — and stay away from tactics … described in the following editorial piece they will never make more money than Microsoft. Oh wait, we weren’t talking about money. We were talking about Linux taking over the desktop. OK, until the Linux vendors decide that making money is more important than providing a quality product at the lowest price possible, they won’t have the advertising budget for creating a huge artificial demand.”

ZDNet reports on a University of Delware computer based on 1GHZ AMD Athlon processors, and Linux, of course. Here’s another version of the story from Maximum Linux.

Wired.com previews the opening of the Open Source Development Lab Wednesday. The lab is the industry’s first independent, nonprofit lab for developers “adding enterprise capabilities to Linux and Linux-based software.”

A Businesswire press release at BigCharts.com says that there will be separate programs for career trackers and career changers. The company will also offer a first-time-pass guarantee on all certification tests.

An anonymous reader alerts us to the article, TOTW: Associative arrays in AWK. “A predecessor of perl, awk’s man page calls it a “pattern scanning and processing language”. It can be used for a number of perl-like tasks and is what I usually turn to for parsing tasks that aren’t too complex and where speed isn’t an issue.”

Read more at: http://www.linuxlookup.com/html/main/totw.html.

Kelly McNeill writes: “The Windows story is important for Linux because if the open source software can create the environment that gave Windows its success as an OS, Linux will be the next desktop standard.” Check out the rest of the column at OS Opinion

From LinuxPR: Zend Technologies today unveiled its
plans to advance the expansion of PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) as an
enterprise-scale scripting language by bringing commercial-grade products and
capabilities to the PHP platform. Zend’s enterprise-quality products and services
promise to extend the reach and technical sophistication of PHP, making it
increasingly attractive to large enterprises, eBusinesses and independent
software vendors (ISVs) seeking a Web application infrastructure for the rapid
development of dynamic Web solutions. Also, read the story at ZDNet.

PC World follows up on earlier stories: “New technology from IBM could restrict what you do with your future digital music.

The company waded into the digital content protection fray Monday, announcing a new
version of its Electronic Media Management System that could restrict peer-to-peer
file-sharing schemes such as Napster.”