Microsoft's Red Menace, Jan 07, 2005

When IBM announced last month that it is selling its PC business to China-based PC maker Lenovo, a fair bit of head scratching ensued. But here's an interesting scenario (and let me stress that it's a hypothetical one), courtesy of tech strategy consultant Boris Petrov, that would make the deal pay off in spades: IBM could use Lenovo to spread Linux in the fastest-growing PC market, China.

Webmaster's note: It's Friday and I just couldn't resist. If Bill had just used Linux ...

Later in the 90-minute presentation, a product manager demonstrated the ostensible user-friendliness of a video game expected to hit retail stores in April, Forza Motor Sport. But instead of configuring a custom-designed race car, the computer monitor displayed the dreaded "blue screen of death" and warned, "out of system memory."

Linux vendors are issuing patches for several serious bugs affecting an imaging component, a pdf viewer, two widely used media players and the Shoutcast audio server.

A lot of companies like Mandrakesoft are looking to capture lighting in a bottle and look around at what some bigger companies are doing.

Opera Software on Thursday released a beta of its version 8.0 browser for Linux, following December's launch of the Windows test version.

2.4.29-rc1 has been released today.
See changelog for full details.

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