Computer World has a story, published a couple of weeks ago, about EMusic.com using Linux for a 10TB storage system. That’s right, 10TB, and it seems to be working just fine.

tjhanson writes, “There’s a disturbing story over at Linux Planet about Linux’s lack of coverage at CES this year:
The real story would have been to interview some of those PR people from companies who have products utilizing Linux who didn’t mention it. I’ll bet you would come up with not-very-plausible excuses and sudden generalities. I’m not a reporter, so I don’t have the contacts or the writing style, but I would be willing to bet that some of those
exhibitors were instructed not to upstage Gates with his XBox by
mentioning Linux.

I think the freeze is on. It probably has something to do with the
sudden gas pains at Corel when mentioning their ‘Linux strategy,’ at
Transmeta for muzzling Linus’ distaste for Windows, at Adobe for pulling Framemaker, at Inprise/Borland for suddenly deemphasizing Kylix, and many others. This is Microsoft’s classic behavior, to isolate and exterminate. Did we make the ‘hit list?’

It is a situation which cries out for some vocal advocacy. Please don’t let this go.

Earthweb reviews Stephen Asbury’s book Practical Linux for the Enterprise.

Faulty Wiring kicks off its pre-MacWorld coverage with a look at the announcements expected to be made at this year’s San Francisco gathering: A shipping date for OS X, speed increases for the G4, and new Mac products from Microsoft.

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.