It’s been 9 years since Linux was first released to the general
public. This Linux.com.au article asks, “given the current state of Linux today, has Linus achieved what he set out to achieve?”

As Linux continues to
infiltrate businesses everywhere, a need for training on the operating
environment is quickly emerging, reports PRNewswire. According to IDC, Linux training in the
United States alone could be a $311 million market by 2004. InfoWorld reports on the study.

Dell has introduced a new ultra-low-cost $1,039
server, the PowerEdge 300, complementing its already
introduced Dell PowerEdge 1300 and 1400. TechWeb reports, the server ships with the option to
include one of Dell’s portfolio of third-party operating
sytems, including Red Hat Linux.

MSNBC Technology reports, on the other side of
the Atlantic, a place where stealing Internet
access is sometimes a necessity and computer
hardware is often archaic, hacking is hardly a
game, and points to Boris Floricic, a legendary 27-year-old German hacker who was
found dead in a Berlin park in November of 1998. Police ruled it a suicide, but
family, friends and the CCC say foul play was involved.

The Register proclaims, Hatch’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a veritable masterpiece of internal inconsistencies,
contradictions, and fraudulent assurances purporting to protect the ‘fair use’ of
copyrighted material, clearly written by recording and movie industry flacks
who have since delighted in splitting the hairs and treading the thin edges as
they assail the very ‘fair use’ which the Act so touchingly, and impotently,
bleats about.

UnionBuiltBox, is proud to announce the addition of Kondara MNU/Linux
preinstalled on their workstation computers. LinuxPR reports the new Kondara
workstations feature the AMD processor with speeds ranging from 500mhz to 1ghz.

Overland Data, Inc., a technology leader in tape backup products, and Enhanced Software Technologies, Inc. announced today that Overland’s AIT(a) LibraryPro automated
backup tape library is certified to run under Linux, from Business Wire.

NewsAlert: Zero-Knowledge Systems Inc., the leading developer of privacy solutions for consumers and companies,
today released the source code of its next-generation Linux Freedom client. The company also announced its
commitment to open sourcing the entire award-winning Freedom privacy suite.

“If you want to
understand why Linux is the most important operating system in the world,
ignore the posturing about Linux on the desktop, and pay attention to the
fact that IBM has just ported Linux to a wristwatch, because that is the kind
of news that illustrates Linux’s real strengths.” proclaims this article from Business 2.0.

ZDNEt eWEEK article surmises, “The Internet will not escape taxes. This seems obvious,
but all parties seem to be in denial. Maybe the subject is being avoided because neither
candidate wants to be cast in the light of raising taxes
or risk the ire of tax-shy dot-com contributors. Whatever
the reasons, this neglect is taking place even as we
overcome the technical barriers to consistent tax
collection on Web purchases. It’s time to close this
reality gap.”