Slashdot readers discuss recent comments made by id Software’s Todd Hollenshead regarding retail gaming sales and support and Linux. Among his remarks: sales are disappointing; support was a nightmare due to multiple Linux distributions. Oh, and you can forget about a retail version of Q3 Team Arena happening.

Damion Yates, Senior Internet Operations Engineer at the BBC, gives an overview of the British broadcasting agency’s use of Linux for LinuxPlanet.

Now playing on Segfault: “The Free Software Foundation (FSF) disclosed yesterday the first release of its new “GNU Mathematics” product. In a crowded press conference at MIT, Richart Stallman (aka RMS), president of the FSF, outlined the features of this new “GNU/Math” (“we like to pronounce it ‘GNU slash Math'”, he explained).”

From The Register: “Microsoft is claiming copyright over its security notices and insisting that mailing lists can no longer publish the Beast of Redmond’s dire security warnings. The lawyers at Microsoft have objected to the publication of its security notices by SecurityFocus.com, which runs the popular BugTraq security mailing list.”

O’Reilly’s first again — piloting P2P technologies worldwide with conference and book

Participate in the future of the Internet…
Explore the bounds of peer-to-peer networking…

Shape the next generation of Internet pplications…
Register for the O’Reilly Peer-to-Peer Conference…
The cluster of technologies we’re now calling peer-to-peer is a melting pot of ideas that’s about to boil over. The O’Reilly P2P Conference, the first and most important conference on P2P, will provide a unique opportunity for developers, entrepreneurs, investors, and those making technology-buying decisions to interact with and engage in conversations with leaders in the peer-to-peer space.

The O’Reilly Peer-to-Peer Conference February 14-16, 2001 Westin St. Francis Hotel San Francisco, California – http://conferences.oreilly.com/p2p/

Technical visionaries and business leaders will forge the future of peer-to-peer collaborative networking, and explore the technical, legal, and business dimensions raised by the most revolutionary new Internet applications since the Web. Napster, Gnutella, Freenet, Infrasearch, SETI@Home, Popular Power, Groove, Jabber, UDDI–you name it, they’ll all be there under one roof, providing a unique opportunity to meet and learn from the technology and business innovators who are shaping the next generation of pervasive technologies.

Speakers include: Gene Kan, Ian Clarke, Ray Ozzie, Dave Anderson, and others who are shaping the P2P revolution.

“This is the next great thing for the Internet. We haven’t even begun to understand or imagine the possibilities.”–Lawrence Lessig, P2P Conference Keynote Speaker

Secure your participation. Register early for the O’Reilly Peer-to-Peer Conference and save! Early Bird Registration thru January 18, 2001. – https://www.reg2.meetingsplus.com/oreillyp2p/main.taf

Detailed information about the O’Reilly Peer-to-Peer Conference is available at: http://conferences.oreilly.com/p2p/

Check out O’Reilly Network’s P2P development center online at http://www.oreillynet.com/p2p/, featuring thought-provoking articles like Tim O’Reilly’s, “Remaking the Peer-to-Peer Meme.” And, get your first glimpse at an overview of “Peer-to-Peer: Harnessing the Disruptive Potential of Collaborative Networking.” – http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/p2p/2000/12/05/book_ch01_meme.html

For a list of P2P companies, projects and initiatives, go to: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/p2p_category

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” Cable & Wireless INS, one of Britain’s largest ISPs, is struggling to fix a major failure of its core network that has left most of its customers without service.” Full story at The Register.

The Register reports: “TDK reckons it has found a way to boost the range of a Bluetooth signal to 50 meters, giving it a radius closer to that of the 802.11 wireless LAN standard*, but requiring much less power. The company says that it has been able to send signals further because of its ceramic antenna technology.”

“San Jose sits atop the list of U.S cities with the most high-tech employees, while Seattle’s software talent seems to be raking in the most dough, according to a new study released Tuesday.” Full story at Network World Fusion.

LinuxDevices.com reports on MontaVista’s new tool that converts embedded VxWorks operating system applications into embedded Linux applications: “Why do that? “This tool is a declaration of independence,” says MontaVista founder and CEO, Jim Ready. “Embedded system developers are tired of being tied to a single-vendor, proprietary solution.””

From O’Reilly: “If we treat peer-to-peer as a literal definition for what’s happening, then we have a phrase that describes Doom but not Napster, and suggests that Alexander Graham Bell was a peer-to-peer engineer but Shawn Fanning is not.”