A reader tells us that Mmozillaquest.com has more information about Netscape 6.01. “According to the NS 6.01 edition of the Netscape 6 Release Notes here is what’s new in NS 6.01:
Enhanced stability. Netscape 6.01 includes improvements that make installing and using it much more reliable than version 6.0.
Fixes for many of the most frequently reported problems in version 6.0. These fixes address, among other things, support for the Mac OS scroll wheel, increased accuracy of the Security lock icon, bookmark descriptions (they are no longer lost), and other user-interface feedback issues.
The Netscape 6 browser suite and the upcoming NeoPlanet browser are based upon the cross-platform Mozilla browser-suite. The current Milestone Mozilla browser-suite release is Mozilla 0.7. The Mozilla Milestone 0.8 release is expected next week.”

SF Gate reports on the court case in San Jose which “Internet privacy advocates are asking a federal court
to preserve the right to denounce
businesses anonymously online.

The forum in dispute is an electronic chat room, one of
many created by Internet service providers to let
subscribers vent their feelings about a particular
business without giving their names.”

CNet reports that AOL Time Warner has released Netscape 6.01, although the story doesn’t say what’s new with the .01.

ZDNet has a story on installing and configuring IPtraf, a traffic analysis utility, and using GNUplot, an Open Source plotting package.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (here on NewsAlert) has a story about computer consulting company Linuxgruven.com deciding not to use Linux training materials
made by Wave Thomson Learning, saying Wave’s price of $200,000 a year for the books and other materials is too spendy. “Meanwhile, a Wave subsidiary, Sair Linux of Oxford, Miss., has suspended Linuxgruven as one of its accredited
centers for learning Linux. Sair Linux says Linuxgruven failed to hire instructors that have passed Sair’s tests on
using its teaching materials.”

It’s at LWN.net and includes a fix of eepro100 reporting on lockup fix; clean up of the i810 error message; and a fix of the S390 build bug.

From BusinessWire: Figures from the most recent issue of PC Data reveal that Linux-Mandrake version 7.2, launched in November, was the best-selling
Linux operating system in December 2000 with more than 28% market share.
Consistently a top performer in the Linux category, Linux-Mandrake’s Complete 7.0 was also the best-selling Linux operating system sold
at retail in all of 2000.

– by Tina Gasperson –
Here’s a specialized site for you. Linux Telephony covers everything about getting tele-connected with Linux.Linux Telephony has stepped neatly into the role of the place to go for information about Linux hardware and software that will enable connectivity. I guess you’d call it a portal — if you happened to like the word portal. We’ll just call it a good resource.

At Linux Telephony, there’s information about telephony-related mailing lists, plus articles, news, links, questions, books … even jobs. But don’t bother with the jobs section, it is woefully out of date. Guess there aren’t often openings in such a specialized field.

It has a nice section on drivers too, but the last entry was posted about a year ago. I started to wonder if the site had been abandoned, and double-checked the front page — no, it’s quite current, with a story about the International Softswitch Consortium posted 2/7/01, and every few days before that.

There’s an entire section devoted to something called OpenH323, which I learned is a project that “aims to create a full featured, interoperable, Open Source implementation of the ITU H.323 teleconferencing protocol that can be used by personal developers and commercial users without charge.”

Wait, that sounds interesting. Evidently, OpenH323 is working on providing businesses with the capabilities of Microsoft’s NetMeeting protocols, but for free. Kind of like Jabber — but that’s another story.

Linux Telephony doesn’t fail when it comes to providing links to outside resources, both telephony and Linux-related. I found the site to be thorough, informative, and educational, if somewhat neglected in parts. As always, your mileage may vary.

Go visit LinuxTelephony.com.

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A ZDNet column goes looking for evidence of Linux use in big business and doesn’t find much.

ZDNet UK has more information about the layoffs, which apparently aren’t “total rubbish” as SuSE has claimed. SuSE says the layoffs will not affect is commitment to the U.S. market. “Jasmin Ul-Haque, commercial director for SuSE in the UK, says that
marketing and support for the US will now be operated from the
company’s German head office. She says the layoffs are designed to
make SuSE’s operations more efficient and key members of staff have
been retained to drive sales in the US.”