Here’s a summary of the most popular stories posted to Linux
Today during the last week.
Most Viewed Stories
| Joe Pranevich — Wonderful World of Linux 2.4 (Quite Nearly There Edition) |
(84347 reads) (by Joe Pranevich) (Sep 14)
“Out with the old and in with the new… Linux 2.4…”
| Monterey Up and Running on Merced! |
(11737 reads) (by John Matthews) (Sep 17)
“IBM achieved the breakthrough Monday at an Intel facility in
Dupont, Washington; took IBM engineers only 24 hours; reflecting
the stability of the code.”
| LinuxPR: IndyBox Systems Releases First AMD Athlon Linux System |
(9685 reads) (Sep 15)
“The IndyBox KA Series incorporates a single AMD Athlon processors,
Seagate ATA/66 8GB (billion bytes), or 13GB hard disk drives,
Matrox Millenium G400 video controller, with up to 384MB of 100MHz
memory in a IndyBox mid-tower chassis, IndyBox 4U and 6U rack mount
configurations.”
| Queen of England Switches to Linux |
(8102 reads) (by Randy Johnson) (Sep 16)
“According to Netcraft, the Royal Family’s web site was switched
from Solaris to Red Hat Linux around Sep. 6.”
| ZDNet: The Coming Crash in Microsoft’s Stock |
(6945 reads) (by Jesse Berst) (Sep 16)
“[Forget the Linux threat,] …two obscure accounting rules…
could undermine Microsoft’s financial foundations.”
Most Actively Discussed Stories
| Joe Pranevich — Wonderful World of Linux 2.4 (Quite Nearly There Edition) |
(149 talkbacks posted) (Sep 14)
“Out with the old and in with the new… Linux 2.4…”
| Linux Journal: Killing Off Linux: It’s All Academic |
(39 talkbacks posted) (Sep 19)
“Cash-strapped universities are striking deals that could shut down
UNIX and Linux servers in academia–and the consequences aren’t
healthy for the Open Source movement.”
| 32BitsOnline: Windows2000 and the Eloi |
(34 talkbacks posted) (Sep 20)
“On the one hand we have a “free” office suite, maybe even a “free”
OS, and probably a bunch of services expenses as you turn your
computing environment upside down. On the other hand, we have a
really, really expensive office suite, a really, really expensive
OS, and probably a bunch of services expenses as you turn your
computing environment upside down.”
| 10,000 stories and 1 Year Later – Happy Birthday Linux Today |
(30 talkbacks posted) (Sep 14)
“Happy Birthday to us and congratulations to the Linux community
for an unbelievable year!!”
| Linux World: The Penguin Brief: The Penguin Grief |
(30 talkbacks posted) (Sep 14)
“Peeve number one: can anyone possibly find me a more unstable
program than Netscape’s browser for Linux? And I mean Communicator
4.61, not a prior version — Communicator hasn’t always been this
bad.”