Busineswire has a press release about the upcoming LinuxWorld Conference: IDG World Expo, the world’s leading producer of IT-focused conferences and expositions, today released a preview of what attendees can expect at
the upcoming LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, January 30 – February 2, 2001. The event will take place at New York’s Jacob K. Javits Convention
Center, and is expected to be the largest gathering of Linux operating system vendors and developers to date. Attendees will have first-hand access to
an array of innovative technologies, industry initiatives and announcements from major corporations.

ADF, a ZioBudda collaborator, reviews and explains what we can find in the new Linux kernel. The ZioBudda review is in the Italian language. –ZioBudda

“The market has been anxiously awaiting the final release, which can be downloaded from www.kernel.org, even though some of the features found in the kernel have already made their way into vendors’ current Linux offerings. However, vendors are being cautious about detailing exactly when the kernel itself will find its way into their lineups.” From ZDNet.

From Forbes: “In his opening keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas tomorrow, expect Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates to surprise the audience by showing a Microsoft-branded PC along with the X-Box video game console, and perhaps other new hardware products.”

News and discussion from the land of Debian Hurd, posted to LinuxCare.

Newsbytes reports: “Central Command says it has uncovered the first script virus that can execute in a hypertext server environment. The good news is that the virus, PHP.NewWorld, has no payload and is not self-propagating.”

In the current issue of ApacheWeek: “Apache Desktop Reference now available” … “The next release of Apache is expected this month” … “Apache Week Holiday giveaway.”

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.