A recent Zona survey reveals that over half of the large companies it surveyed are expecting increases of Linux users within their firms of up to 50%. Smaller companies felt that Linux usage would expand by more than 50%. Full story at eWEEK.

Loki is seeking a few good beta testers for its port of the Sierra Studios title Tribes 2. This first-person action game features team-based play where players can fight alongside more than 60 others with all-new weapons and vehicles.

32BitsOnline.com takes a closer look at the second edition of O’Reilly’s Linux Network Administrator’s Guide. The book is available in traditional paper form and a free online version.

A Wall Street Journal report on ZDNet covers Sun’s efforts to cope with a server flaw, calling the bug “a mysterious fault that can cause its high end-servers to crash unexpectedly, an embarrassing problem for a computer maker that routinely refers to its servers as “rock solid” reliable.”

ZDNet reports that handheld computing giant Palm, Inc. is offering new incentives for developers. The program is claiming responsibility for fourteen new Palm devices, including a business card scanner, camera, and Global Positioning System.

Following the inclusion of XFree4.0.1 there have been many requests for help concerning installation and configuration in #debian, especially concerning 3dfx cards such has the Voodoo II Banshee and above. This article is here to guide you through how to setup and configure your system optimally for such hardware, including acceleration. From Debian Planet.

Debian Planet reports that dpkg 1.71. should be available later this evening. “New dpkg has many new features, like Origin and BTS info which allows a single maintainer define the bugtracking system to use with this package (shouldn’t affect debian maintainers). dpkg-shlibdeps has been also upgraded to ‘work better’, and ofcourse slower… there also is dpkg.cfg which allows you to enter commandline options to dpkg from a configuration file. dpkg-deb has been made to reorder the files in packages which should prevent ‘some nasty things’ from happening.”

Sun Microsystems has posted an analysis of Microsoft’s .NET strategy. “Is .NET a radically new and innovative platform, as Microsoft claims? Or is it another migration path for Windows developers who have not yet embraced the Java platform?” asks Madhu Siddalingaiah.

Slashdot readers discuss an article by Ian Murdock at DebianPlanet talking about the differences between “pure” and “commercial” Debian.

Slashdot readers sound off on this submission: “It seems lately that a whole lot of the discussion on
Slashdot centers around copyright law. Napster, DeCSS, the GPL; in all
of these discussions the fundamental power over which there is a struggle
derives from the law of copyright. And in all these cases, the fundamental
existence of copyright is hardly ever questioned. However, copyright is
not a law of nature. Such force as it has is a product of international treaty …”