From Salon: “I hate Java. As a
programmer, I hate Java, the
language, for what it has done to
the field of programming. As a journalist, I hate the
relentless hyping of Java by its supporters, as well as their
unending excuses as to why Java has failed to deliver.
And as a technologist who has been involved with three
major projects that have used Java, I hate the
complications that Java has caused.”

Linux.com has posted an introduction to Snoopy Logger, a program that uses shared libraries to record system activity.

From a press release at Linux PR: ” LinuxIT, a leading European Linux Solution
Provider, has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire the
business interests of 01Linux Solutions Ltd, a UK-based Linux Support
and Consulting company.”

“Andamooka hosts open content books for reading and annotation. Several new books have been added recently: GTK+ / Gnome
Application Development by Havoc Pennington, Learning Debian by Bill
McCarty, Jan Newmarch’s Guide to JINI Technologies, Lessons in
Electric Circuits by Tony R. Kuphaldt, and How to Think Like a Computer
Scientist (C++, Java, and Python Versions) by Allen B. Downey.” Press release at Linux PR.

“Phat Linux allows Windows users to run Linux while preserving their Windows partition. Phat Linux v3.3 comes with lots of popular software, including KDE 2.0, XFree86 3.3.6, Netscape, and much much more.” Info and download at PhatLinux.com.

With 3G wireless services barely a reality in most parts of the world, ZDNet UK reports that Hewlett-Packard and NTT DoCoMo have announced a joint effort to develop networked applications and multimedia services for an even more distant 4G wireless network.

“Today, a PowerPC Linux user uses Linux instead of MacOS 9 for a number of reasons. It’s faster, more stable, is open source, has more software available, has a large open source community, and is free. Once MacOS X comes out, however, many of these benefits will be brought to the mainstream Mac operating system. Speed, stability, (partly) open source, more software, and a small open source community are added to the MacOS features list. Now Linux has fewer advantages over the mainstream OS than it used to.” More at Artificial Cheese.

From BSD Today: “For people who update FreeBSD
infrequently, say to the next RELEASE version, the system installer (sysinstall) provides an ‘Upgrade’ option
which installs the new system over the existing one. Using this method I successfully upgraded my FreeBSD
4.0 machine to 4.2 and this article will detail the steps I followed to do this.”

Alan Cox posts the latest changes to version 2.4.0-ac4 of the Linux kernel at Linux Today.

LinuxPlanet reports: “With the future of the company on the line, top officials from Corel Corp. plan on unveiling the company’s new corporate growth strategy on January 23. The executive team will roll out details of the company’s plans to employees and media at a special event to be held at the Ottawa Congress Centre.”