“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.

“Build 25, Redmond Linux Beta 2, fixes a few last-minute bugs. Key changes: All help text in the Linux installer is finished;
PCMCIA cards are correctly detected during the installation; Current bootloaders can be retained after the installation.” Get the goods at Redmond Linux.

The Duke of URL reviews Best Linux 2000, R3, proclaiming the distribution to provide “a solid experience for the new Linux user.”

This Boston Globe piece on Computer News Daily details hacks made to popular interactive toys like Furby, and proclaims the fur-covered electronic mimic to be “a mascot for the Open Source movement.”

“In 1998 the International Data Corporation (IDC) estimated that commercial shipments of Linux alone would increase by 25% each year to 2003. Keeping in mind that Linux is freely available for download on the Internet and that more than one person might install Linux from a single CD and the growth of Linux is tremendous.” From Linuxnewbie.org–Sensei

Slashdot dicusses the about-to-ship Ethernet adapter for Sega’s flagging Dreamcast game console. This development should be “great news for the people doing the Linux port, and the guerilla DC
development community at large.”

From CanadaComputes.com: “Having had a bad back recently, I decided to invest in a dirt cheap laptop so I
wasn’t restricted to the nasty chair at my desk. I found a nice sounding laptop
on EBay.

A Toshiba Satellite T1910. It’s a 486SX/33 with 4 MB of RAM, a monochrome
screen and a 200 MB hard drive. It’s not going to win any awards, except
perhaps the crappiest computer award, but it’s perfect for what I wanted.”