From Wired News: “If there’s been anything at all revolutionary about the PS2 so far, it’s been a revolution of hype — a
huge marketing campaign that promised a near-magical gaming system. But that promise, according to gamers,
has so far gone unfulfilled.”

Wired News covers the latest hardware announcements from the annual Mac gathering: four new G4 models with CPU speeds ranging from 466MHz to 733MHz.

From LinuxWorld: “Just like elsewhere, Linux in Poland most often handles Internet and LAN jobs. But would you expect a four-star hotel to run all
of its operations on Linux? As the case of the Hotel Jan III Sobieski shows, you can run your entire business on Linux — if you
do it right.”

LinuxNews.pl writes “On the ftp servers nightly builds from new Mozilla Roadmap branch have just appeared, wchich probably means that during this month new Mozilla release 0.7 should become a fact. According to the Mozilla Roadmap it should have been done in the third quarter of last year, but.. nobody’s perfect. Now we hope that it will be worth to wait for it.

You can check what’s wrong with the current builds of mozilla. Seems like
lot’s of unused code lies down there.”

ZDNet reports: “Advanced Micro Devices plans to open a third
microprocessor fabrication facility by 2004, but will
likely share the space with another chipmaker to cut
costs.”

From LinuxDevices: “Delphi Automotive Systems has selected Red Hat’s eCos operating system to be the software platform for a
new family of in-vehicle information appliances and embedded telematics systems. The first Delphi product
to use eCos will be the Mobile Productivity Center (MPC), an in-car platform that enables hands-free
operation of PDAs and cell phones.”

At BSD Today: “The ISDN4BSD ISDN subsystem, which is also integrated into FreeBSD, has been brought into shape for
NetBSD and imported into NetBSD-current.”

ZDNet reports: “Sun Microsystems Inc. on Tuesday will release the latest
draft specification of the XML file format that will be
included in the next version of its StarOffice software
suite due out later this year.”

garym writes “In the Globe and Mail’s coverage of the Corel Saga Simon Tuck speculates on rumours the upcoming Jan 23rd strategy announcements may include selling off the Corel Linux product lines; it may even be a done deal that can’t become public until the sun leaves Capricorn.”

LinuxNews.pl writes “We found the alternative for Zend cache system –
afterBURNER*Cache
. Right now it’s beta, but looks solid. You can download a copy for linux, solaris or windows. I’m wondering if there are any plans to
do the compiler that would be alternative for Zend Encoder…
The whole thing is on LinuxNews.pl“