"Is the linux kernel forking away from PowerPPC? Is this happening because of issues regarding OS X and the possibility of many users jumping ship, away from LinuxPPC upon release? Or is this some kind of quiet platform war from the major kernel developers?"

Michael Tiemann, this week will present a white paper at the conference on an application being developed by Japanese retailer Lawson. Their short-term plan is to have around 200 terabytes of data connected in a p-to-p architecture among 15000 machines.

"The KDE folks were upset over Ximian's practice of buying "ad words" on Google to display ads and links luring people to Ximian's site when someone searches on a KDE-related token. Even though cooler heads have prevailed and major damage was averted, the Linux community just experienced their own version of the infamous "thirteen days" of the Cuban Missile Crisis."

Recently I happened to read an article in Linux Journal, which brought into focus the age-old debate of Linux v/s GNU/Linux. And guess who seems to be more vociferous about this? It was good old RMS. Fortunately or unfortunately, this issue got the better of me and led me to think about facts I would otherwise have neglected.

The question is "What's the Debian equivalent of rc.local" or "Where can I put startup commands in Debian?" Here's a quick step-by-step guide to one way to do this.

Alcatel has at long last Linux support for its SpeedTouch USB ADSL modem. The French comms company will release a driver for the open source operating system, along with the source code, next month.

Noting his own surprise at the vociferousness of a web page posted by KDE developers addressing his company's purchase of KDE-related "ad words" on the popular Google search engine, Ximian President and CEO Nat Friedman said the company will not suspend the ads, despite earlier plans to do so.

The Linux kernel is the center of every Linux distribution. The source code which goes into it is very special -- any bugs it has will affect every part of the system, perhaps even destroying the work of the user. How do changes happen inside of it? How are decisions made about the direction that the kernel will take?

KDE developers aren't the only people upset by a Ximian advertising buy on the Google search engine that pops up Ximian brand GNOME ads when users seek information on KDE or KDE-related products.

"Microsoft has adopted a key strategy, which has brought it to its current lofty position -- that strategy being to either kill or buy out your competition ... A buyout is impossible because nobody owns Linux, so we're left with the company’s only other alternative -- kill."