The unstable Debian tree, Woody, now has XFree86 4.0 as its official X implementation, as reported by Slashdot.

LinuxOrbit reviews Storm Linux, touching on installation, packages, and system administration with the distribution. “Storm Linux has what most consider by far a much easier installation than the standard Debian installer. The install process starts within a console mode. After verifying keyboard type and mouse, you have the option of switching to a graphical installer.“

CNET Networks has aquired the opensource software directory AppWatch. More information is available on linuxpr.com.

In an editorial piece on ZDNet, the support of Linux by IBM is analysed and discussed. While mentioning the strength of Linux on the developer side, it mainly focuses on mainstream acceptance of Linux, and why it’s not happening.

An Ask Slashdot was posted asking “Where is IBM’s open AFS?.” Due to the nature of Slashdot’s posting system, this question was submitted before IBM released the AFS code, but was posted after the slashdot story about the release of the actual code.

In a recent Mac Product Watch over at ZDNet, Jack Jansen’s Mac port of Python 2.0 was announced. It is available from the official website.

Slashdot has a discussion about the Xanim media player for Linux. They also have a link to a feature list for interested programmers

Some skills and achievements look better on CVs than others. James Gosling, vice-president and fellow
of Sun Microsystems, can add a pretty good bullet-point to his career history: ‘Creator of the Java
programming language.’

More recently, he’s been directing his attention towards Mr Gates and the monolithic Microsoft
Corporation. He’s put those famous pictures of Gates receiving a pie in the face on his website. More
importantly, Gosling was one of the 12 witnesses at the Microsoft trial. From Linuxtoday.com.

You just a need a minimal system with a 386 processor and 8MB of RAM. HAL91 comes along with harddisk and CD-ROM support but it runs directly from
floppy out of a RAM disk.
A special feature of HAL91 is the included minimal support for NE2000 compliant network hardware and the ability to establish a PPP connection over a null
modem cable (via the ppp-nullmodem script). From Linux Gazette.

Linux Gazette reports: “Narval is an Intelligent Personal Assistant software, released under the GNU Public License by Logilab. It was used to set up Gazo, a bot that is assisting the group
of volunteers that translates Linux Gazette into French, by taking care of most of the coordination-related work. Narval features artificial intelligence and agent
technologies and contributes to change the way we use the Internet and computers. Narval stands for Network Assistant Reasoning with a Validating Agent
Language.”