From a column at Advogato.org: “According to Dan Frye of the IBM Linux Technology Center, three forces come together to make a “disruptive
technology” that changes the status quo.

1.Desire to Learn.
2.Skills.
3.Open Culture …

He asserted that the success of Linux stems from these forces coming together, and not from the other factors to
which we hackers attribute success.”

From Forbes.com: “Calling VA Linux Systems’ decision to cut its hardware
business a “new strategic focus” is like calling a leg amputation a minor
abrasion.” (VA Linux owns NewsForge.)

Linux.com has the story, with a good list of sites to find the free demos.

IDG reports on IBM’s release of version 1.0 of JFS (Journaled File System) for Linux, which helps manage extremely
large disk configurations and enables file recovery after a power outage or crash; and version 1.0 of NGPT (Next Generation Posix Threading), which helps enable
multithreading, or the operation of simultaneous processes on systems with multiple CPUs.

ZDNet UK has a story about Intrinsyc Software’s CerfCube. “The CerfCube sells for $533, and comes with a Linux kernel and the Apache Web server. It
can also come with Windows CE pre-installed. The device is so small that it comes with a wrist strap
for carrying it around.”

Slashdot readers discuss an announcement that FreeBSD Services Ltd. will distribute
FreeBSD on a bootable DVD, including packages, ports distfiles, the
CVS repository, and a technical documentation set.

From Mozillaquest.com: “The Mozilla Organization released the Milestone Mozilla 0.9.2 edition of its Mozilla browser-suite today as it creeps along to the elusive Mozilla 1.0. The Mozilla Milestone 0.9.2 browser-suite is cross-platform and open source. Builds are available for the BSD, Linux, Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, OS/2, Sun, and several UNIX platforms. Source code is available if you want to custom compile your own Mozilla Milestone 0.9.2 build.” Here’s more from an anonymous reader, “Mozilla 0.9.2 has been released. This milestone features improved speed, stability, a couple of minor features, and many hundreds of bug fixes. Check out the full story at Mozillazine and then grab a copy, but don’t forget to read the release notes.”

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/. Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org.From Cox, “This is the initial merge with 2.4.6pre – treat this one with care, it
may
not be the most reliable 2.4.5ac release ever made.”

2.4.5-ac22
o Fix the remaining make xconfig mess (me)
o Add APM disabling on DMI match (me)
| Needed for the Trigem Delhi3 (aka E Machines E-Tower 333cs)
o Fix pnpbios without hotplug (I hope) (me)
o Merge an escaped via midi fixup (Adrian Cox)
o Revert minixfs changes

2.4.5-ac21
o Fix pnpbios compile failure and add docking
station hotplug (/sbin/hotplug dock) (me)
o Fix make xconfig failure (Keith Owens)
o Fix cciss pci device table (Marcus Meissner)
o Fix bogus math.h include in iphase driver (Arjan van de Ven)
o Reiserfs vm deadlock fix (Chris Mason)
o Make the i810 tco disable info clearer (Andrey Panin)
o Correct bzImage size limit check (Pavel Machek)
o Next lvm patch (Joe Thornber)
o Fix toshoboe for pm api change (me)

The Industry Standard: “Lacking good pipelines between the countries of
the region, Latin American Net traffic is typically
routed through one of four Tier1 Network Access
Points (NAPs) in the U.S., located in San
Francisco, Chicago, New York or Washington,
D.C. That makes data transfers slow, unreliable
and expensive… The new Miami hub, a seven-story,
hurricane-proof structure dubbed “The Nap of
the Americas,” will directly link to the region’s
fiber-optic networks and rapidly speed up data
traffic.”

MSNBC’s Brock N. Meeks opines: “Maybe I saw one too many bogeymen under my
bed as a child. Maybe I watched too many reruns of the
“Outer Limits.” Or maybe Juno’s user service agreement
really is as heinous as it reads. Juno makes its subscribers
agree to a terms-of-service contract that reads more like
the terms of an unconditional surrender or a prisoner of
war indoctrination manifesto.” Meeks is referring, in part, to distributed-computing software that Juno requires users of its free service to install, and that little provision in the agreement that “may require” users to keep their computers turned on 24×7.