Bruce Perens writes: “Please see http://www.perens.com/Articles/OpenMail. I give you permission to serve this article directly from your site, you don’t need to link to mine unless you want to.

Thanks. — Bruce.”

Linux has been ported again, this time to the 64-bit PowerPC architecture that IBM uses in its high-end servers. Slashdot has the full discussion.

Anonymous Reader writes “The March issue of LinuxFocus (MultiLingual magazine about Linux) is available.

You find the English version at:
http://linuxfocus.org/English/
Translations to other languages are ongoing.

This time we have the following articles:

System Administration
• Real-time data mirroring under Linux , by Atif Ghaffar
• Using different ISPs for your Internet access , by Guido Socher
  
  Games
• Game Review – Penguin Command , by Harald Radke
  
  Applications
• Real-time mp3 recording , by Philip de Groot
• The Easy Fax Server , by hacklinux.org
  
  Software Development
• GNUstep, the open source OpenStep , by Georges Tarbouriech
• Avoiding security holes when developing an application – Part II
  by Frédéric Raynal, Christophe Blaess and Christophe Grenier
• Book review: Beginning Linux Programming , by Katja Socher
  
  Graphics
• Povray IV: The Use of Textures in Povray , by Antonio Castro

If you like the articles in this magazine, then please join us and help us translate them to your native language.”

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.