LinuxPPC’s Jason Haas answers questions recently submitted by Slashdot readers.

Hot on the heels of 2.4.0-ac1, Alan Cox has posted news of Linux kernel 2.4.0-ac2 at Linux Today.

Alan Cox posts the latest changes to version 2.4.0-ac1 of the Linux kernel at Linux Today.

From LinuxPlanet: “There was a very interesting article in the Los Angeles Times recently. In it the author, Mark Kellner, wrote of having tried to switch to a Linux desktop for 14 days. All that he found admirable in Linux was StarOffice, and there was a lot he didn’t like even about that. He hit a lot of snags, and asked all the wrong people who, like Mr. Kellner himself, hadn’t a clue.”

“Apple has finally decided to follow the spirit of the open source development model fully, and modified its own Apple Public Source Licence to eliminate many of the restrictions that so annoyed the open source community.” Article at The Register.

EE Times reports that PhatNoise, Inc. has licensed its MachMP3 jukebox design to car stereo giant Visteon: “The Mach MP3 reference design, based on a prototype that PhatNoise debuted in June 2000, includes an
embedded Linux operating system and applications, the PhatBox storage cartridge, a USB docking cradle and
PhatMan software.”

From Premises Networks: “With a soon to be completed acquisition of SCO, Ransom Love, Caldera Systems CEO, discusses Caldera Systems’ strongest markets overseas.”

“Because of some extended (but tested) changes in the Berkeley DB interface we decided to still call
this release gamma. If nothing shows up in the next few days we will make a new release without the
gamma prefix to mark that MYSQL 3.23 is now officially ready for production (even if it has been that
in practice very stable for a long time).” Details at Linux Today.

From the Online Journalism Review at USC-Annenberg: “He has been called the “Guru” of Russian Internet. At 34, Anton Nossik has been involved in most of the important Russian Internet projects in the past five years. His ICQ nickname is “Emigrant”, because several years ago he immigrated to Israel, before returning to Russia. He is an online news service editor, a consultant, and a strategist. And when people want to know about the past, present and future of the Russian Internet, people ask him first.”

CNET News.com reports that Philips will debut two reference platforms for new Internet appliances at next week’s Consumer Electronics Expo in Las Vegas. The systems will be compatible with several different operating systems, including Linux.