Slashdot’s talking about how Linux PPC works on Mac.

“Ginger”, the mysterious, purportedly world-changing device that
has caught the attention of the technology industry this week, may
be something as simple as a scooter.

A patent application filed with the World Intellectual Property
Organisation’s International Bureau on 14 December 2000, lists
Manchester, New Hampshire-based DEKA Research and
Development as the applicant. Inventor Dean Kamen has been
creating products for DEKA for nearly 20 years. ZDNET.co.uk reports.

LinuxNews.pl writes “During the Macworld conference, Kevin Browne, a man responsible for Mac solutions in Microsoft, announced that in October 2001 the MS Office for MacOS X should be ready. More on LinuxNews.pl“

If you are a regular reader of Computer Bits, you know that Linux is developing impressive momentum. It is the new buzzword, and articles comparing it to
Windows are everywhere. Opinions about moving from Windows to Linux are as plentiful as leaves in autumn. The most common arguments against switching are
the lack of solid software, and the difficulty in finding folks to create tailor-made business applications. Well, Kylix is about to change all that, and here’s why.

System V method of initialization is one of the most widely used across most Linux
distributions. It definitely eases the system administrators job. There’s a lot more than
autoexec.bat and config.sys here. We’ve written this article for novice users. It explains
the concept of runlevels, initialization scripts and the significance of /etc/rc.d.

In the traditional BSD style of startup, there are only a few initialization scripts, which are
something like the autoexec.bat and config.sys pair of DOS. Commands are executed
and services are loaded up sequentially as given in the scripts. From FreeOS.com.

A recent Slashdot story sparked a great deal of discussion about Aduva’s plans for simplifying Linux administration.
Aduva’s Izar Tarandach says it sparked a great many misconceptions as well. Today, he tries to put the record
straight, on Freshmeat.org.

InfoWorld reports: “In the year 2000, Linux heads
enjoyed a huge increase in the
enterprise adoption of their favorite OS
worldwide. Many commercial
applications were released on Linux,
and the backing of mainstay companies
such as IBM helped Linux break in to
many businesses.”

Wired reports: “Jave Savin was crushed after losing a website he’d spent three years building. His hard drive died, and then his server bit the dust. Gone were 400 Web pages, each more interesting than the other. Then one glorious day he found a copy, just sitting in Google’s cache register. Ain’t life grand?”

FOR the eighth consecutive year, IBM has topped the list as the world’s most prolific patent recipient,
the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) said last week.

In a preliminary audit by the USPTO, Big Blue pumped out 2886 patents last year – nearly a third more
than its closest rival, Japan’s NEC Corporation with 2020 – 130 more than it registered the previous
year. From Fairfax IT.

LinuxPR: “Gelecek Linux is based on the popular Red Hat distribution. Many additional
packages are compiled to add more functionality, and some are just deleted.”