Reuters reports that Microsoft has enlisted Denmark-based Lego to help with its Xbox video game console and with the Microsoft Network.

TechWeb follows up on the story: “Database giant Oracle Corp. said Tuesday its leading 8i
database and recently released 9i application server are
available for the new Linux 2.4 kernel.”

From LinuxPR: Linuxcare, Inc., a leader in providing
comprehensive professional services and solutions for Linux and open-source
technologies, today announced its continued commitment to educate Linux
specialists and users through major sponsorship of the Linux.Conf.Au
conference.

In this LinuxWorld story you will learn how to back up your Mac OS,
repartition your hard disk, and install the LinuxPPC 2000 distribution on your Mac.

From LinuxPr: The Linux for beginners course is designed for busy professionals with no prior experience with Linux or any other flavor of UNIX. This two-day introduction to Linux broadens their horizons with a
detailed overview of the operating system. Attendees learn how to effectively use a Linux system as a valuable tool. They get familiar with the architecture and various components of the operating
system, learn both graphical and command line tools, and learn to do basic networking. The next offering of this class is scheduled for January 27-28, 2001.

“As the global DVD market skyrockets, the DVD
Forum will begin this year to aggressive enforce DVD licenses and
collect DVD royalties, according to Koji Hase, chairman of the DVD
Forum and vice president of Toshiba Corp., at the 2001
International Consumer Electronics Show this week.” From a story at EET.com.

From LinuxPR: Teamware Group, a subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited, today announced the
availability of Edition 3 of its popular ready-to-run groupware product,
Teamware Office 5.3 for Linux, with customizable user interface and
state-of-the-art communications features. The new Edition introduces some
major improvements that make the groupware even more suitable for small and
medium-sized companies.

From PR Newswire: Electronics for Imaging, Inc.
(Nasdaq: EFII), the world leader in enabling networked printing solutions,
announced today the availability of its Fiery X3 embedded controller for
Konica’s 7075 black-and-white printer/copier. One of the first Linux-based
controllers to hit the market, the Fiery X3 for Konica’s 7075 brings greater
productivity to corporate workgroups, print-for-pay environments, and central
reprographics departments.

ZD’s Computer Shopper compares and contrasts GUIs, saying “KDE and GNOME are close to a Windows 9x/2000 environment in overall operation and functionality” and beat Windows in configurablity.

tjhanson writes:: “I just downloaded and sampled Mozilla 0.7 from the Mozilla ftp site:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla 0.7/.

It’s…it’s… a lot better. Pages are rendered pretty quickly (on Linux, haven’t tried the others), not quite as fast as Netscape 4.*, but a BIG improvement over Netscape 6 (Slugzilla). Email is actually usable now.

This is after an hour’s playing around with it, not a rigorous review. Barring some hidden issue, it’s most likely the one I can actually put in the menu and use every day.”