From LinuxToday.com.au: “Founded by some of the original Macintosh Interface Gurus, and working closely with the GNOME project and Ximian, Eazel in the space of one short year have gone from an overly-hyped bunch of old Mac hackers to a company, that like the Borg, have adapted to suit nearly every Unix environment out there.”

“One of the positive things about surfing the Web in these enlightened times
is the proliferation of choices one can use for a browser.
A new choice that has recently been introduced on the Linux platform is the
NetRaider browser.
NetRaider is advertised by its development team as “small, stable, independent,
and free,” four words a lot of us like to hear. In this case, there is
mostly truth in the advertising. For just a 0.0.2 release, this browser was
a very impressive product.” Read on at LinuxPlanet.

From Linux.com: “Before an unsuspecting victim was selected from the audience, Brian explained a few things that you have to
do to prepare for recompiling your kernel. One of the most important things to do is check to see exactly what
type of hardware you have on your computer. When you configure the kernel for your system, you have to be
able to tell it what hardware you have on your system, so that it knows how to communicate with your specific
system. Take a look at all of the files in /proc. This will have all of the information about your system, just make
sure you know how to interpret it. Also, you can find out exactly what you have if you keep all of the
paperwork that companies send you with your computer or with the different components.”

Lori Pike writes “ActiveState is delighted to kick off the first annual Programmers’ Choice and Activators’ Choice Awards. We’d like to honor those unnamed heroes who’ve *actively* contributed to making Perl and Python the most popular open source programming languages.

Accordingly we’d like your input for the Programmers’ Choice for Perl and Python. Know someone whose code design rocks? We’d like to hear from you!

We’re also acknowledging those we deem worthy for their accomplishments with Perl and Python in an Activators’ Choice award. Following a month long discussion period of late caffeine-filled nights, our dev team will through a rigorous evaluation process cast their votes for one deserving Perl and Python programmer.

Get out the vote and stay tuned?Winners will receive a cool trophy and will be announced March 6, 2001.

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Anonymous Reader writes “In yet another set of advancements to the kernel IP packet filtering code, netfilter allows users to set up, maintain, and inspect the packet filtering rules in the new 2.4 kernel. This document explains those changes and tips on how to get started.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/feature_stories/kernel-netfilter.html“

Network World Fusion reports that AltaVista, a popular web portal, has removed all its community sites services, intending to instead concentrate on its search functionality.

Linux Journal claims that Usenet is not dead, and continues to be a strange place. Often associated with geeks at their finest, usenet is an effective way of trading information on line.

Linux Planet reports on the arrival of a new browser for Linux: NetRaider, a scaled down version of KDE’s Konqueror browser.

O’Reilly discusses the manners in which unices of various flavours, including Linux and BSD, track user logins and how a user can adjust the sequence of events when they log in.

Linux Journal reviews the book “Installing and Adminstering Linux”. First impressions are that the book is written backward, but ultimately it’s a good text, according to the review.