Linuxtoday.com.au has an advocacy piece about contributing to the AbiWord project.

This Linuxtoday.com.au article asks you to consider the Apache project, and all it’s contributed to the core of the web. “ If you’re a server administrator by profession – then of course you would know quite a bit. But for the rest of us IT professionals out there, I’m about to give you a crash course in how most of the WWW road on the Internet is built, and how it came to be that way.”

Slashdot has an interview with Itojun, the man responsible for IPv6 support in NetBSD, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD. He’s one of the few people who has commit access to all three CVS trees.

Ever wanted to replace the slow, XT-compatible POST sequence with something a bit faster? The LinuxBIOS project (reported by Slashdot) can get you into Linux in 3 seconds.

guido socher writes: “The March 2001 issue of Linuxfocus is now available
at
http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/. This time we have the following articles: Real-time data mirroring under Linux, by Atif Ghaffar; accessing different ISPs for your Internet access, by Guido Socher; game review – Penguin Command, by Harald Radke; real-time mp3 recording, by Philip de Groot; The Easy Fax Server, by hacklinux.org; GNUstep, the open source OpenStep, by Georges Tarbouriech, and more. Translations to other languages than English are ongoing.”

An anonymous reader writes: “I recently had the experienced of purchasing a buggy computer product that looked good until I got it home. This hasn’t been the first time I encountered a buggy computer product. Is it just me or the computer industry does not care about releasing crap. I can buy a new VCR or Toaster Oven and not worry about it suffering a bug (Most of the time). The computer industry on the other hand is brutal. In the past year I’ve encountered tons of disappointments and frustrations. So I’ve compiled a short list of products that I have found to be buggy, hoping that I can draw some attention to this matter from the industry.” Complete story at OSfaq.com.

tjhanson writes: “Does IBM walk the walk? Or what?
The ad’s at http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/linux/passport.swf.

As reported by LWN, Alan Cox has released the -ac11 patch to 2.4.2.

Slashdot has an article talking about how Linux is used for animation and 3D modelling during postproduction of movies.

Dan Barber writes: “Open Source has become the rallying cry for the software industry … an industry which only twenty years ago was as deeply mired into the old economy way of thinking as most other industries are today. The question is, can we take our ‘lessons learned’ and help other industries take the next step to a truly “new economy”? This article at mojolin.com discusses the issue and offers at least one possible way of moving forward (specifically for the auto and energy industries, but probably applicable to other industries, as well).”