Torvalds a coup for Linux locals, Jan 24, 2003

At the opening address, conference organiser James Bromberger introduced a "special guest that you've probably all heard about". A penguin-suited person briefly wandered out onto the stage. A few minutes later, as Mr Bromberger wound up his speech, the penguin returned to the stage and pulled off the head of his costume - revealing himself as Mr Torvalds, to the delight of the audience.

Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive of Big Blue's software group, told a packed auditorium at his keynote Thursday that IBM projects Linux will continue to grow as a revenue generator for the company, with expenditures on Linux growing at an average annual rate of 35 percent through 2006.

Linux is by no means exerting as much influence on the desktop as it does in the server room, but its modus operandi is changing slightly.

Japan's biggest computer maker Fujitsu Ltd and U.S. chip giant Intel Corp said on Friday they had agreed to jointly develop high-performance Linux-based servers and market the products by the end of 2005.

In a post Thursday to the KDE developer mailing list, George Staikos said, "We need to get some serious organisation together for these things in North America. It's really pathetic." He went on to describe what had happened:

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