ZDNET talks about the marketing department shakeup at Microsoft, plus their new focus on .Net and how Windows might be fading away.

At Infoworld, the columnist says 2.4 lacks functionality to make Linux the best desktop OS, whines and moans about lack of driver support for 2.4 and then calls for a special committee to put pressure on vendors to create hardware drivers for Linux.

MSNBC tells us that with Palm cradles attached to PCs, “the system hangs on boot, the mouse cursor flashes between the hourglass and the arrow after Windows loads, Windows will not shut down and the system hangs, and the CPU activity is at 99 percent (in Task Manager) in Windows 2000.”

UnixInsider has posted this fairly technical article about a Web-based file tree browser for BSD. The devil you say!

“The Irish Times, in an article announcing RMS’s visit to Dublin, calls the efforts of programmers working to create free software a ‘noble, if financially foolhardy approach.’ Sounds like a wee bit a fighting words t’me, laddy.

linuxnews.pl writes “On www.projectmayo.com first projects using OpenDivX are mentioned. Linux users will surely be happy to hear that XMPS 0.2 with a new OpenDivX plugin is available to download. There is still no precompiled RPM or DEB packages, but it’s probably only a matter of time.

Sensei writes “I was getting really frustrated building this kernel using the online and hard copy resources, because they sorta get sketchy in some parts (ie ‘depends on the system’, ‘if you want’, ‘might be a good idea’). So I got together all of my resources in one place, sat down with the README and CHANGES docs that come with the kernel, and decided to document, step by step, the process I went through. Of course I don’t go through every config option the kernel has to offer, but if you need information on each choice you have, do ‘xconfig’ like I do below, and there’s help all along the way.

Check it out here“

After painful copyright lawsuits, MP3.com is expecting to turn a profit, reports ZDNET, and the company won’t be taking on any partners.

The US President’s website, http://www.whitehouse.gov, was transferred from the Clinton administration to the Bush administration on January 20th, but the transition was not entirely smooth. The website launched with the words, “Insert something meaningful here,” still on the page, and a long series of broken links. Hopefully the rest of the transition has been going better. Wired News has the story.

dmalloc for OPN writes “OPN has thought a lot about the current development of community sites for
the open source community. While we believe that sites like sourceforge and
the like do a good job in their category, there are not enough
project-related news sites.

So, who is OPN? Well, we are just an IRC network, that hosts a lot of channels which have to do with open source development.Such as #debian, #php or #e (for enlightenment).

We have decided that it is time to gather information, ideas and reminders
from the open source community as to how they would like to have a site
developed, that actually tells them, all in one place, what is going on with
people in the community and the projects they work on.

So we’re approaching the community, trying to gather as many contacts as
possible and start discussing this idea we had during one long frenzied
night of IRC brainstorming. Users who think they can help us out with
ideas, development time, written content, information about the open source
community and the like are asked to please participate and sign up to our
mailing list at http://lists.openprojects.net. That same host runs an nntp
server gatewayed to the mailing list archives, in the newsgroup
opn.discussion. If you feel you qualify as a volunteer right away, you can sign up at our volunteer database using
http://lists.openprojects.net/db/

Spreading the word is not easy and wording this right is even harder, so I
will not try to make this sound any better than it is. I will let you decide whether this is worth your time or not, hopefully it is and I will see you soon on the mailing list or in IRC, asking me many questions. The server is irc.openprojects.net, the
channel is #content.

oh yeah… I am dmalloc on IRC, hopefully I will see you all soon.”