ZDNET: “…There are, however, a number of minor improvements aimed at making the browser easier to use: distinct window icons for the various Mozilla applications; the ability to trigger Microsoft Windows dial-up networking to establish a new connection; an improved Download Manager; better drag-and-drop and a new button for making Mozilla the Windows system default in one click.”

EETimes: “While interest is high, acceptance of the Linux operating system (OS) in telecom equipment designs has been modest, at best. One of the main reasons for the reluctance is due to the fact that existing edition of the Linux OS are not optimized to meet the carrier-grade requirements of modern telecom carriers.”

Bakersfield.com: “Battered by the collapse of its free-spending dot-com and telecommunications customers, Sun Microsystems Inc. recently said it would do more to link itself to the free operating system Linux.

A year and a half after buying a manufacturer of inexpensive servers running Linux, Sun said it would start selling a line of low-end servers that would give users a choice of Linux and Sun’s Solaris operating system and that use Intel Corp. microprocessors instead of Sun’s more sophisticated chips.”

Anonymous Reader writes: “Lycoris Desktop/LX, formerly known as Redmond Linux, has seemingly done what all other Linux distributions have tried for years to accomplish.”, states Bradley Walker, ” My experience with Lycoris Desktop/LX has thus far been the best of all Linux or Unix distributions I’ve used.” A pretty strong statement, however it is in the context of ‘the desktop’. The full article is here“

ZDNET: “No other market is quite like software. General Motors isn’t forced to contend with a “free car” movement, which has a goal of undermining sales-based automakers. Dell isn’t faced with a grass roots PC hardware movement, which says PCs should be free–and then hands out samples at no cost.”

Anonymous Reader writes: “http://www.linuxlookup.com has a small review on the Dell Latitude C840 Mobile Workstation. “For the last two years I have been using a notebook as my daily base of operations. As a “roadwarrior” I like to have all of my programs, files, etc on hand at all times. I love the freedom of being able to pack up and go, wherever, and have a powerful computer at my side. I thought I had it all with my previous laptop. But I once again outgrew a computer. I was in the need of much more power. I found it with the Latitude C840….”

Brian C. Lane writes: “My
article covering howto install RH 7.3 on the Compaq Presario 711 laptop has just been posted to the Linux Journal website. It covers how to get power management working (not simple!), as well as the built in sound and LinModem. I have put together a patch for the RH 7.3 2.4.18 kernel that makes these changes easy. Additional pictures can be viewed on my writing page”

“Despite the music industry’s heroic efforts to produce, promote and
distribute the finest fruits of American artistic genius, sales of CDs fell
seven percent in the first half of 2002, after falling 5.3 per cent overall in
2001, the Recording Industry Ass. of America reports.

Because of the exceptional brilliance and innovation evident in today’s
pop offerings, discussions of dwindling consumer interest in vapid,
predictable cliche products would clearly be out of place. No, the industry
is doing everything right, so the only possible explanation for a loss of
revenue has got to be the pestilence of Internet piracy.” More of this delightful smart-ass stuff at The Register.

“Businesses wanting to deploy standard configurations across a number
of machines frequently take out one of Microsoft’s volume licensing
programs, set up their own standard distribution then use it to hose
whatever OS the PCs they bought came with. Frequently they are under
the impression that this involves them paying for two Microsoft operating
systems, and sometimes they’ll buy (if they can) machines with no OS
instead, in order to avoid wasting money in this way.” More at The Register.

Anonymous Reader writes “An Illinois company that has shipped Linux preloaded on PCs since 1998 now offers a choice of four Linux distributions on Apple machines, the company has announced.

QliTech Linux Computers will ship Apple notebook and desktop systems with SuSE PPC, Mandrake PPC, Debian PPC, or Gentoo PPC configured to dual boot with OS-X, says QliTech’s Ray Sanders.”