Linus Torvalds started a revolution of sorts in the computer industry when he created the Linux operating system and decided to share it with fellow programmers on the Internet. He discussed via e-mail his move to Portland, the state of Linux and Microsoft.

It seems that the gnu-Darwin project announced release candidate 2 of 1.1 version of its distribution.

Red Hat's Fedora Core 3 Test 3 is now available. Release notes can be found here, torrents can be found here.

KDE developer Zack Rusin announced in his blog he just committed the QT Mozilla code. To start testing it, all you need to do is checkout mozilla, configure with --enable-default-toolkit=qt, and launch make.

Novell's web site carries some docs for the upcoming Novell Linux Desktop and some shots: 1, 2, 3.

A new release candidate RC4 of NetBSD 2.0 has been tagged. The changes since RC3 include fixes for IP Filter (concerning IPv6 and better backwards compatibility with existing configurations), checksum processing for bridge interfaces, support for the Adaptec AAR 2810SA raid controller, linux compatibility and changes to the pagedaemon in order to improve performance under heavy disk load.

Here is a piece explaining the goodies of Novell's Dashboard and Beagle.

Apple's server and storage offerings are helping the company overcome its reputation as the high-priced computing option.

Larry Ellison embraces Linux, but don't expect open source databases from Oracle any time soon. (Part Two of six part interview).

This bug-fixing version of GTK+ 2.4.11 fixes a number of bugs mostly in the file selector area. GLib 2.4.7 was also released.

Montavista Software has submitted patches to the linux kernel mailing list which aims to convert the Linux kernel in a real-time operative system.

The 90 day evaluation JDS for Solaris 9 x86 can be downloaded (registration required).

This article, and the second installment that follows next week, can be considered the fourth and fifth in a series covering Ruby programming on Mac OS X. However, unlike the first three articles of this series, this tutorial can be used as a standalone piece. You only need some knowledge of the Ruby programming language with a little prior experience in Xcode to understand the content found here.

This CD will allow you to try out Ubuntu before installing it, without repartitioning or overwriting any existing software or data.