From ZDNET.co.uk: “Notebook manufacturing is rapidly migrating to mainland China, a
move that will inevitably lead to lower laptop prices.

The major Taiwanese notebook makers — which design and
manufacture a substantial portion of the notebook PCs sold
worldwide–have recently detailed plans to produce notebook
components and perform partial assembly in China next year.
These companies also are lobbying for laws that would allow them
to produce complete notebooks on the mainland — right now, it’s
illegal.”

Motor is a great new IDE for programming under Linux. In this
second part of the series, the author looks at more advanced issues
including debugging using the gdb front-end, CVS and some of the
new features in Motor 2.0. Tutorial here on FreeOS.com–Mayank

From ZDNET.co.uk: “IBM on Thursday proclaimed itself fastest of the fast in low-end
Unix uniprocessor workstations.

The company announced a pair of additions to its entry-level
RS/6000 44 P Model 170 Unix workstation, which the company
claims will make the machine fastest in its class.”

Apache Week holiday special feature: This is the first of two articles by Joe Orton on WebDAV, the distributed authoring protocol for HTTP. The first article explains what WebDAV is, and the current state of client and server support. The next article will describe how to add WebDAV support to your Apache server.

Linux Today provides a space for you to post your birthday greeting to Linus Torvalds.

The end of the year is a time of reflection. This week, News.com staffers took a break from journalism, at least for a
nanosecond, to write poems that summarized the year in technology.

Some themes that were on their minds: plummeting stocks prices, layoffs and the dot-com shakeout. They tried haiku, limiting
themselves to five syllables for the first line, seven syllables for the second line and five for the third line.

Should News.com staffers stick to their day jobs? You decide.

From PCWorld: “Who says you can’t have it all? Ricoh’s combo drive, the $349 MediaMaster MP9120A, adds 8X DVD
playback to top-tier 12X/10X/32X CD-RW performance. Well-priced drives from Plextor–our reigning
Best Buys, the PlexWriter 12/10/32A and PlexWriter 8/4/32A–prove you can get performance without
paying top dollar. Whatever your choice, if music mastering is your focus, look to utilities bundled with
your drive for help.”

It may look like the messages come from the
online auction house, but email asking for
personal data from eBay users is being redirected. eBay is investigating, reports ZDNET.

Here’s a another from LinuxTests: “SuSE Linux AG is well known for contributing to development projects such as the Linux kernel, glibc, XFree86, KDE, ISDN4Linux, ALSA, and
USB. Founded in 1992, arguably they are the technology leaders of Linux.

On July 31, 2000, SuSE released a press statement that SuSE 7.0 was available in the professional or personal versions. We purchased SuSE
7.0 Professional from a local store. We’ve installed this version hundreds of times on many different types of PCs. In our opinion, SuSE 7.0 is the
best solution for new users first being introduced to Linux.”

LinuxTest.org has this story: “The reality is that Linux is not for everyone.

Linux is not for people who want to be spoonfed, who do not show curiosity, who do not think beyond their noses. Linux is not for the whiners,
complainers, wanna-be computer geeks, or whimpy male boys who toss TLAs around at parties in hopes to impress the girls.

Guess what folks? Windows isn’t for them either. These people really hate computers. They even hate people who like computers. They secretly
loathe you. Windows, Linux, BeOS, Apple OS, OS2, DOS — it doesn’t matter. These same people are going to complain.

Linux is successful. It can be used as a desktop OS, a server, a web server,a router, and many other things. Linux is the most dynamic OS that
keeps growing, changing, and improving every day.

So why all of the complaints from the honest people?”