LinuxWorld explores the place of analog in our computerised future.

The first 0.15 micron x86 processor has been released. Slashdot has more info on the VIA Samuel 2 processor.

From Linux Today: “The Midgard Project Ry has released a new version of Midgard Content
Management and Application Serving Suite. The new release contains Midgard core libraries, a PHP3-based
Web application server for the Apache platform and Asgard, the Web-based administration interface.”

From LinuxDevices: “…this series of articles will cover the basics of iPAQ Linux software development. As always, in the
open source world, there are many different approaches — each having strong adherents!”

“Always known for its research-and-development
leadership, IBM has spent millions quietly developing and improving its speech recognition tools. The latest embodiment of that
technology is their ViaVoice Dictation product. ViaVoice was originally only available for Windows, but a Linux port was released
late this summer. I was fortunate enough to receive a review copy of the software, and thus began my arduous but rewarding
journey from installation through productive use.” More at Linux Planet.

From Canada Computes: “With Christmas right around the corner at the time of writing, I figured the season
of parties, fun and games deserved a roundup of some nice open source games. So let’s open Santa’s sack to see what presents lie inside. See whether we’ve
been naughty and get a lump of coal or nice and get a juicy piece of
entertainment.”

“So forget all these new-fangled languages and toolkits. The application I’ve written could have been
written in 1994 using the now venerable but perfectly serviecable Tcl/Tk. Tk may not be the trendiest
graphical toolkit around, but it is sturdy, simple, and gets the job done.” More at Linux.com.

Evil3Dnet has the goods, documenting one way to get the combination of BestLinux 2000 R3, Nvidia video cards, and XFree86 to play with each other.

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

KDE.org interviews Kmail creator Stefan Taferner.