The president-elect has said he opposes a
forced breakup of Microsoft, but that doesn’t
mean he’ll intervene. To begin with, Bush has
bigger problems, reports ZDNET.

LinuxToday posted this opinion piece by Lou Grinzo, editor of Linux Programming: “We’ve all seen the comments from industry pundits and frustrated individual users alike: “Linux needs a
single desktop standard!” they shout. And just in case that isn’t sufficiently incendiary, these same people
usually take sides in our favorite soap opera here in Linux Land, the KDE/GNOME mud wrestle, and
anoint one as being clearly the “right” choice for uberdesktop. This is where such conversations normally
take a Jerry Springer-esque turn, complete with virtual chair throwing.”

“If you’re using Perl, or if you’re interested in learning Perl, you’ll want to know about the
Perl Mongers. Perl Mongers is a network of Perl user groups, like LUGs are for Linux,
where you can meet other Perl users in your area, improve your skills, hear about the
latest developments, or simply find out what Perl is all about.” From Linux.com.

LinuxPlanet opinion column: “There are glimpses of something to do with penguins in some of the old hardcopy
archives that survived 2023. So few comps survived after that era. This one may have made it intact
because of the depth, but all of them we have seen to date have the Windows interface.”

From OSOpinion: “The sweetest way to run UN*X on NT for me is DOSMINIX. Descended from Andrew Tanenbaum’s
venerable, though slightly old, MINIX operating system, DOSMINIX is a full, source-code, BSD
licensed, UN*X powerhouse running in a cmd.exe box on NT (and possibly Win2K).”

LinuxToday has posted this announcement: “This is a beta version of the new MySQLGUI version 1.7.4

This release has two new features, of which one is very important, and it also contains several bug fixes.”

“In a move that may be the beginning of a series of legal challenges in
the already ailing free Internet access business, Internet service
provider NetZero Inc. on Tuesday filed suit against rival Juno Online
Services Inc., alleging Juno’s advertising and Web navigation window
violates a NetZero patent. Juno promptly denied the allegation and
charged NetZero is infringing one of its patents.” IDG.net reports.

PcWorld reports that, with George W. Bush striding toward the White House, national security experts are preparing for
what could be a major change in the way the government and the private sector organize to defend
against cyberattacks.

Clinton administration officials and other national cybersecurity experts say Bush plans to appoint an
IT “czar” by next summer to better manage the government’s IT investments.

From ZDNET: “Intel says a minor bug that can slow
performance in some multimonitor setups is
still on the loose–but no cause for another
delay.”

GMate – the producent of one and only Yopy PDA releases YOPY Development Kit Sale! From Jan. 21, 2001 you can buy a YOPY + additional software for developers.
Agenda has released the same program some time ago. Can’t wait to see the real thing! Short comparision of Agenda and Yopy is here–LinuxNews.pl