In a bizarre turn of events, SCO has sued IBM for not less than $1 billion, claiming IBM willfully destroyed SCO's business by handing its intellectual property over to the Linux movement.

Promises of better Apache performance have me lusting after lingerd, a very obscure utility that increases performance for dynamic content. It's been used on a handful of little sites you might have heard of: Slashdot, Newsforge, and LiveJournal.

I just read today that Sam's Club is about to start offering 1.1 GHz Duron PCs running Red Hat Linux for $299.

Clamav is a free (GPL) virus scanner for Linux and other Unix systems. It seems to work well. The price is right.

Yes, Todd, I'm posting an update from work. This'll save me from wasting time on Google later in life.

Mail from longtime reader Steve Mahaffey on the state of desktop Linux. My responses interspersed within:

Freesco 0.3 is out. It now has working PPPoE support, I understand. I don't know what else it does just yet. But I intend to find out.

I was doing a little research for Gatermann about Linux networking. I didn't find what I was looking for, but I found something interesting: a pair of tools co-written by Donald Becker called mii-tool and mii-diag.

I said yesterday I didn't remember exactly how to add a network card to Linux machines. I found instructions today. They weren't entirely correct. So here are instructions (hopefully more correct--I have access to exactly one Linux box right now) for adding a NIC in Linux.

A single-floppy firewall mini-distribution can be a quick and easy way to save yourself some money if you've got an old PC in a closet not doing anything, assuming you stumble across a combination of hardware that works right.