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poetbill writes "Palm Computing has obtained a preliminary injunction prohibiting Royal from selling its rival DaVinci handheld device, which 3Com claims was copied from the Palm operating system." Does this remind anyone of a similar case from a few years back?

Martin Brown writes "In netscape.public.mozilla.general, Jamie Zawinski has announced the availability of nightly binary builds of Mozilla from mozilla.org. Absolutely no guarantees, of course."

Micah Mayo writes "The current branch of the FreeBSD source tree switched from a.out to the ELF binary system around midnight August 30th. Hopefully the transition wont be as horrid as the linux transition was."

Bowie J. Poag writes "The first in a series of IRC conferences regarding the upcoming GNOME User Interface Style Guide will be held on the Undernet, this upcoming Sunday." You can get all the gory details on this page. Mini Summary: Undernet. #gnome. Sunday. 7pm Eastern. BYOB.

Bowie J. Poag writes "The first in a series of IRC conferences regarding the upcoming GNOME User Interface Style Guide will be held on the Undernet, this upcoming Sunday." You can get all the gory details on this page. Mini Summary: Undernet. #gnome. Sunday. 7pm Eastern. BYOB.

Eden Li (tile) writes "Kali is going to begin testing a version of Kali for Linux. Kali is an online gaming service similar to Ten or Mplayer. Only costs a one-time charge of $20 for life time `membership' and support. More info at kali.net Mailing list is starting up for it; mail kalinix-list-request@kali.net with `subscribe' in the body, not subject. It doesn't seem to be setup yet, but it will in the next few days. After the Linux version is developed, other unicies will follow."

Thornton Prime writes "The Synet trustees accepted a $5M settlement from Microsoft. I wonder if the settlement sells the Internet Explorer name to Microsoft, of if Microsoft is simply free to use the name now? "

Bowie J. Poag wrote in to tell us that the second fruit from the now defunct InSight project. Remember scroll balls? Well this is just as wierd- the concept is color reactiveness. Specifically in the GNOME Desktop. Certainly this happens to a large degree already (my desktop uses brighter colors on more important things, I'm sure I'm not alone) but taking it to the next level has a lot of potential Read more here.

Bowie J. Poag wrote in to tell us that the second fruit from the now defunct InSight project. Remember scroll balls? Well this is just as wierd- the concept is color reactiveness. Specifically in the GNOME Desktop. Certainly this happens to a large degree already (my desktop uses brighter colors on more important things, I'm sure I'm not alone) but taking it to the next level has a lot of potential Read more here.

Steve Rojem sent us a Sm@rt Reseller article where you can read about Netscape and Linux. The main point of the article is that other companies haven't joined in. Well, Corel seems to be making a step with their VNC, but Oracle and Informix are holding back. The negative comments are typical: Accountability (unfair because RedHat and Caldera will support Linux systems) Demand (Considering there are as many as 10 million Linux Boxes, I question this) and Lack of Central Marketing Push (a valid pointy haired reason, but certainly not a real reason). Mike Saranga, Informix's senior VP, says they do 16 ports right now, but won't do another unless it makes sense. Considering Linux is the fastest growing Unix, and soon will be the largest *nix, I wonder if it will "Make Sense" in time to give Informix a chance against Mysql, mSQL and PostgreSQL. Is it to late for the normal Commercial Databases on Linux? I know you guys use databases... what do you think?

tile wrote in to inform us that Linux 2.1.91 has made it's appearance on the usual places. Download, compile, reboot, repeat. LinuxHQ doesn't have the details yet, but I'm sure it will rsn.

tile wrote in to tell us that GTK 0.99.8 is up, and when I went to check it out, I found that Gimp 0.99.22 is out as well. Both programs are balancing perlilously on the edge of falling into the chasm of One Point Oh. Let's download these buggers, and find every last bug and make sure that 1.01 is a long ways off.

Arctangent wrote in to pass on a rumor that Blizzard (creators of Diable and WarCraft II, a pair of the greatest games ever) is Willing to port StarCraft to Linux if enough demand is shown. Update: Erik contacted me and said this was just a rumor. Bummer. Blizzard is probably making a mistake here especially since they could get volunteer coders to help do it if they were willing to GPL the older games. Guess that means I won't get to play StarCraft. At least WC2 runs under Dosemu...

Not only is GTK.org up and running, but GTK 0.99.7 is out as well- apparently this one compiles again *grin*. On the bad side, this is all happening instead of 1.0. Hopefully this won't delay The Gimp's 1.0 release that we're all anxiously counting down for. Thanks to tile for taking a minute to let us know.

If you check out this link sent to us by Arctangent you can see assorted tidbits leftover from the recent InSight core dump. For those of you who missed the article last week, InSight disolved and left its goods to the Gnome project. The link above has a few images with a conglomeration of decent icons and background images, and a technical write up on what InSight wanted to replace Scroll Bars:The Scroll Ball. It's an interesting idea. I won't post my opinion on the concept yet:I suggest everyone read the paper and discuss it carefully.