LinuxPR: “TUSTIN, CALIFORNIA – TimeGate Studios, Inc. and Loki Software, Inc. are excited to announce that the demo for Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns on the Linux platform is now available for free download at http://www.lokigames.com/products/demos.php3!”

Slashdot: “How do you set a magnesium NeXT cube case on fire? It took this guy two years, *two* cases and the cooperation of Lawrence Livermore Lab’s burn cell.”

LinuxPR: “Tux Typing is an educational typing tutor game for children starring Tux, the Linux Penguin. Version 1.0 is the result of over a year of development. It is Free-Software, and has binary packages available for Linux, BeOS, and Win32.”

Wired: “In Internet lore, the tale of GreaterGood.com sounds at first like a very familiar story line. An optimistic group of entrepreneurs comes up with a bright new way to change the world. They get millions of dollars from venture capitalists and proceed to find advertisers willing to buy space on their ingenious website.”

LinuxPR: “theKompany.com is pleased to announce the 0.5 release of Rekall, a personal, programmable DBMS system for KDE. The objective of this release is to add more database support, namely direct MySQL and PostgreSQL, and to release the Python scripting functions as well as fixing bugs. Our current timeline has a 1.0 release available in early October 2001.”

The Register: “It will be interesting to see how long ZDNET lasts as a CNET brand. As a once profitable dotcom, CNET is under huge pressure from Wall Street to return to the black.”

JLKreps writes, “A review of Borland’s Kylix Open Edition and Enterprise Edition; the former is expected to cause a flood of GPL applications for Linux. By Joe Barr. http://www.idg.net/ic_666515_1794_9-10000.html

“An aside: I purchased the Desktop Edition of Kylix a couple of months ago. It has the usual problems experienced by a 1.0 release. Borland held up completion of Delphi 6.0 till after Kylix reached the market so that their cross platform library, CLX, would be fully compatible with both platforms. CLX is derived from our well known QT widget set. The FreeCLX version is available at SourceForge. The Open Edition of Kylix is identical in RAD power to the Desktop Edition except that a nag screen will appear on apps at execution and Kylix OE can only be used to write GPL code. Use -ns to disable the nag. In my experience, Kylix is a world class GUI-RAD.

“The Borland news servers are flooded with WinXX coders taking advantage of the fact that code, utilizing CLX, written and compiled under Delphi 6 will compile under Kylix with only minor modifications in the compiler directives at the top of the main.pas code snippet. Most of the WinXX coders seem to be using KDE on RH, Mandrake or SuSE. They apparently feel at home in KDE and are, no doubt, making notes about the lack of crashing of both KDE and Linux. And, some of the Borland Team moderators (volunteers) are a little testy after some WinXX vs Linux flamewars. Be nice. Don’t waste their time. Some are good in offering Linux help, but all are good with Kylix-Delphi and it is nice that they are volunteering help to the community.”

The Standard reports that the FBI has arrested four people in California on charges of software piracy for distributing counterfeit copies of Microsoft software, complete with the first serious attempt to duplicate Microsoft’s holographic CD labels.

Kelly McNeill writes, “With the (somewhat) soon introduction of next generation processors like Intels Itanium using a RISC-like chip and an inability to over-increase MHz with these processors to similar levels as compared to the processor’s Pentium cousin, we may find the long-dreaded MHz myth turned on its head. This change in mindshare could conceivably help companies like Apple computer who have been trying to educate consumers of the MHz myth with its RISC processors for years. On a side note, could the Itanium’s roots in RISC give Apple an entry point into the PC world without having to eat humble pie by catering to PCs but instead have the PC’s upcoming RISC aritecture come to Apple? hmmmmmm…”

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