LinuxGram reports that Curl, “the well-financed, heavily credentialed start-up” has released its new Curl Surge 1.0 software environment. It’s supposed “one of the most important new web
technologies launched since the creation of the World Wide Web.”

From a press release at Businesswire“NeTraverse Inc., the leader in bridging Windows(R) to Linux(TM), today announced the release of Win4Lin Desktop Edition version 3.0,
setting a new standard for performance and compatibility for the simultaneous use of the Microsoft Windows and the Linux operating systems.
Win4Lin enables Linux users to run popular Windows programs at native speeds without additional hardware or the need to dual boot,
dramatically improving productivity and reducing hardware and OS license cost.”

From LWN.net: “RSBAC is a flexible, powerful and fast open source access control framework
for current Linux kernels, which has been in stable production use for over
a year (since version 1.0.9a).

The standard package includes a range of access control models like MAC, RC,
ACL (see below). Furthermore, the runtime registration facility (REG) makes
it easy to implement your own access control model as a kernel module and
get it registered at runtime.”

Dr. Dobbs posts an interview with Python creator Guido van Rossum. RealPlayer is required.

“People are always asking me what operating system I recommend for their desktop PCs.
With the advent of MacOS X, KDE 2.0 and GNOME 2.0 for Linux, and the rapid approach of Windows XP,
I’ve been getting more of those questions than ever.

Here’s my answer: none of the above.” Why NOTA? Read on at ZDNet.

eWEEK’s Peter Galli takes a look at the new features and improvements in GNOME 1.4, due out later today.

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Chris DiBona has posted some .jpgs of the recent gathering of the ruling class of kernel hackers.

LinuxPlanet has a long-winded essay about getting a three-button mouse, and a bit about some obscure window managers for X.

“Research conducted by Idaya
( http://www.idaya.co.uk ), sponsors of the freeVSD project
( http://www.freevsd.org ), has revealed that the Linux market is expected to
grow by over 150% during 2001.” More at CanadaNewswire.