"After three days of roaming some 100,000 square feet of exhibition area populated by 200 companies' exhibits and attended by perhaps 20,000 "Penguinistas", I've certainly had an eyeful of Linux!"

"With Linux, an old PC, and a PC radio card, you can build a device to hang off your home network which will be simple to operate and let you listen to some Really Cool Stuff for less than $150."

There are several pieces that need to be assembled to getting started on palm development on Linux. Here is a basic list of what is needed: Palm Emulator, ROM Image for POSE, PRC tools (GCC with output for PalmOS), PilRC (Resource Compiler), PalmOS SDK's.

With players such as Samsung, Agenda Computing and VTech all moving to offer Linux-based handheld devices, proponents of the open-source Unix variant say Linux may well come to dominate the wireless-device market in the coming years.

"By releasing Qt under the GPL only after it has become well established and mature, Trolltech hopes to ensure that the market associates Qt with Trolltech, and that customers approach them first when they need Qt-related help."

If you're an I.T. professional working with Linux, you have a handful of options if you want a certification, and the vendors are jockeying for the position as the dominant product.

IBM Developer Kit for Linux on Itanium, Java 2 Technology Edition, Version 1.3 Alpha level code is a very early version of the Java SDK ported to Linux running on Intel's Itanium-based hardware.

Ximian hackers Jacob Berkman and Vladimir Vukicevic have been toiling away in secret with making use of Keith Packards new Render extension. Here is the world preview of AA GNOME and AA Mozilla.

"The main guideline is that the FAQ doesn't spew trash about Microsoft. If there's a legitimate technical deficiency, fine, then I'll mention it if the deficiency is relevant to Linux. It rarely is."

Opera has jumped from Opera 4 beta 5 to Opera 5 beta 6. The new release is now adware and will not expire after 30 days. Some changes and updates are better printing, font handling and better javascript support.