ZDNet reports that Linus and crew delivered the Linux 2.4 prerelease kernel to testers New Year’s Eve, which could mean a full-blown 2.4 kernel shortly.

Tonight live on www.thelinuxshow.com: At 6 p.m. pst (9 p.m. east) Kevin, Jeff, PJ, Doc Searls
(of the Linux Journal), and Emmett Plant (formerly of Time City, /. and
Linux.com) have a great show lined up! It’s
another post holiday show with loads and loads of fun stuff.
In Segment One — Hot News: We will be covering the hot Linux news of
the week, plus interesting news in the greater technology world. If
Chris Kolar joins in, we will have all of the hosts past and present,
joining in on tonight’s show.

In Segments Two and Three — The Day After: Part Two, the New Year: We
will discuss what we think will be the upcoming trends for Linux and
Technology in 2001. Plus at the suggestion of maddog, we will be requesting
everyone to give us their resolutions for the next year as well. These prognostications and resolutions will be posted to our site so that
people can remind everyone of what they said 12 months from now. The panel
will be dramatically expanded tonight. Joining us will be:

• Arne Flones, former host of TLS
• Art Tyde, founder of Linuxcare
• Cameron Cooper, CEO of Phat Linux
• Nitrozac, artist, creator of “After Y2K” (www.geekculture.com) and geek
  goddess
• John H Terpstra, Caldera Systems
• Russell C. Pavlicek, Linux Evangelist Compaq for Professional Services
• Ben Cox, of the Linux Fund
• Michael Salsman of BEA Systems, Inc.

• and a very special guest Peter Salus, historian, author and Unix
  community icon.

Plus a whole bunch more who are maybes.

If you would like to join us on the show, check our our IRC Chat
(irc.thelinuxshow.com #linuxshow), at the start of the show and we will give
out the phone number to call in and express you opinion.

Remember tune in at 6 p.m. pst, and 9 p.m. east. Catch the Linux show at www.thelinuxshow.com
– From jeff Gerhardt

The Harpia Project releases its first beta release. Harpia is a topic-centric dynamic content management system. Topic-centric design lets the user follow a logical thought through topics to find all associated items to that topic. Each item (i.e. news, links, FAQ, etc.) are associated to one or more topics and the all the items are displayed for each topic. Harpia is written in PHP 3.x and uses mySQL database, using a very modular design for easy modification to core or modules.

Check amalla.com for more details.
Check here for downloads. –Harpia

From ApacheToday : “The profiling process helps you to determine which subroutines or just snippets of code take the longest time
to execute and which subroutines are called most often. Probably you will want to optimize those.

When do you need to profile your code? You do that when you suspect that some part of your code is called
very often and may be there is a need to optimize it to significantly improve the overall performance.”

Dr. Dobbs’ latest weekly edition of Tcl news and links is now available at LinuxToday.

This month’s ShowMeLinux looks at international Open Source efforts, women in the IT industry, and a debate of “what Open Source really means.”

The 36th edition of the Linux in education report is now available at SEUL.ORG. Topics include tips for finding and using plotting tools, an update on the Debian Jr. project, and several announcements of new Open Source education software.

“The DB-Box database software is constructed completely in PHP and
MySQL running on Linux, can handle up to 500 users, comes complete
with RAID level 0 data protection, and includes an Uninterruptible Power
Supply.” Read the full press release at LinuxPR.

From PHPeveryWhere: “Perl is one of the most useful programming languages ever created. The email system I use at work is glued
together by Perl scripts. The regular expression support in Perl is the best in the world. I have used Matt
Wright’s FormMail (who hasn’t?) However for generating web pages Perl has a lot of deficiencies compared to
PHP.”

“In the first part of this two-part series about Linux on the Mac, Pawel Leszek will show you how Mac users can
benefit from Linux and what they should expect from Linux on a PowerPC.” Full article at LinuxWorld.