"As an average programmer, I'm skilled enough to make necessary modifications to the kernel, but an average desktop user surely won't cope with it; he has problems even with compiling downloaded kernel source. Not very happy with the situation, I decided to write this article and share some ideas on how things should be done to improve device drivers for various hardware devices under Linux."

"If, for example, the CIA wants to hack the Linux kernel to do some super secret stuff, they don't have to publish the source code they add to the kernel as long as they don't publish the binaries. It's that simple. And no, the resulting code doesn't automatically become GPLed. Why? Because they didn't release or publish it to anyone. It's internal, and they're not required to do so."

"My last article was all about getting my Yopy and making sure it worked. Now that I had the unit, I needed to figure out what I could do with the unit. I managed to hook the Yopy to the notebook using the serial cable that came with the yopy. The yopy had a getty running at 115200 so I used minicom to test the connection to the yopy. It gave me a login prompt so I logged in as root to take a look around."

"Like the other distributions, PocketLinux for the iPAQ uses the handhelds.org kernel and builds a GUI platform on top of it. But PocketLinux, provided by Transvirtual Technologies, is in a sense more ambitious than the others, in that it is targeted toward development by both programmers and non-programmers."

"The performance boost varies between traffic trends, but we received an average cache-hit rate of 54% in our labs. Which means our Cache server was off loading half the traffic from our web servers, and Internet connection. So what do you need?"

Since 1992 an organization called the Linux Documentation Project (LDP) has worked to develop free, high-quality documentation for Linux. It is set up much the same way as the Linux development team. Volunteers from across the Internet work together. The LDP develops three types of documents: Guides, HOWTOs, and FAQs.

"One of the things I like about Linux is its flexibility -- you can use Linux on your desktop workstation, on a high-volume Web server, as a firewall or router, as a back-end database server, etc."

"Generally, as you might expect, the Linux media has given the new kernel positive reviews, plus a plethora of articles on how to do something or another with 2.4. The more general technology press has been more skeptical about what this all means; all in all, a fair critique of 2.4, despite some misunderstandings of how Open Source products are released."

"Effective Monday, March 19 2001, five weeks after the release of the new SuSE-7.1 distribution, SuSE will discontinue support for the SuSE-linux distributions SuSE-6.0 SuSE-6.1 and SuSE-6.2."

"Last Saturday, GNOME 1.4's first beta release came out. Ximian had it packaged and ready to go in remarkably short time. A few days later, Ximian was at it again,rolling out Red Carpet 0.9, which we'll look at further along in this column."