Richard Stallman -- Why We Must Fight UCITA UCITA is a proposed law, designed by the proprietary software developers, who are now asking all 50 US states to adopt it. If adopted, UCITA will threaten the free software community with disaster. Please take a read of it, and do what you can to help, even if that just means informing some friends.

Joe Pranevich -- Wonderful World of Linux 2.4 - "Back On The Table Edition" The latest version of Joe Pranevich's famous kernel paper has just been released.

The Thrill Of Open Source Programming A great little article on a programmer's need to contribute to the Open Source community and the feeling of success it has given him. Anyone requiring a little motivational push in the right direction, to benefit both himself and the community as a whole, should give this a read.

Getting The Goods: FTP In One Easy Lesson Anyone wanting to learn how to FTP from the command line, can discover how to with this tutorial.

Removing The Linux LILO Boot Manager Having trouble removing LILO from your system to rid your computer forever of nasty non-Windows operating systems? Microsoft show you how to do it. If you search their site long and hard you might even find an article to perform a DIY Lobotamy.

Transmeta Breaks The Silence, Unveils Smart Processor To Revolutionize Mobile Internet Computing Finally after four years of secrecy, Transmeta (the company Linus works for), has both a real McCoy website, and has released details of their Crusoe chip in the form of a press release.

KDE--The Next Generation Anyone wanting information and screenshots on KDE 2.0 (to be released in Spring) should take a look at this article.

Red Hat Appoints New CTO The co-founder of Cygnus Solutions, Michael Tiemann, has replaced the co-founder of Red Hat, Marc Ewing, as Red Hat's CTO (Chief Technology Officer). Initially, moderately surprised by this move, I realised it made sense after reading this article.

Caldera Receives $30m Cash Injection Among the companies to invest $30 million in Caldera were Sun and Novell. Ransom Love, president of Caldera believes this will help Caldera with its e-business strategy.

Issue 49 Of Linux Gazette Out Today The latest installment of the established monthly Linux e-zine went online today. You can either read it online by following the above link, or download it from their ftp site.

Red Hat Buys Hell's Kitchen Systems For $102m Red Hat has added to its portfolio of e-commerce software by buying a company that supplies credit card processing applications for Linux. Red Hat will integrate this newly acquired software into their Professional version of Red Hat Linux.

Intel Chooses Linux For New Web Device Range I can envisage many Microsoft suits are fuming right now. With portable Web devices predicted to sell 'faster than they can be made' in the near future, this is most definitely a blow to Microsoft's pride.

2.2.14 Kernel Released It's been a while since we've seen a update to the stable version of the Linux kernel (77 days in fact), but at least now, whilst we eagerly await the release of the 2.4 kernel, we have the 2.2.14 kernel to play about with.

Inprise To Release InterBase Source Code Unlike a certain company I won't mention (thermonuclear ball of heat and light anyone?) Inprise (formerly Borland) are taking this whole Open Source thing seriously, and here's yet more proof.

Open Source in the 21st Century A nice article on what we could expect from open source this century. All highly speculative of course and far too general, but commendable all the same.

The Man Who Fronted Microsoft 35 Bucks An interview with the guy that saved Hotmail's bacon by paying $35 to put them back online.