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Mike_Miller writes " Putting Linux at yet another advantage, Corel has announced that by late 1999 it will be giving away its WordPerfect Office 2000 suite for free for personal use to Linux users."

Craig Sanders sent us a link to an article about (surprise!) Linux called The People's Revolution, which is a front page story from the IT pages in The Age, Melbourne's biggest newspaper. Mike_Miller wrote in to say that Rob Kennedy (of linux-howto.com fame) is starting a monthly magazine called Ext2 about (surprise) Linux. Josh Baugher wrote in to say 32 Bits Online is now changing their focus to be a (surprise) Linux oriented site. And lastly, mholve has written a nice bit on Advocacy for (surprise!) Linux.

Don Antonio sent us a link to a site where you can *cough* club a seal. I love this world. Lee Maguire writes "According to a recent usenet post from their Director od Communications, Mainframe are to announce a deal with The Cartoon Network to show all episodes of the CGI cartoon ReBoot (quite popular with computer/sci-fi geeks like me..) - this includes the eagerly awaited third season. " Mark Ashton wrote in to tell us about a Student-run conference in Champaign, Illinois. Speakers include Bjarne Stroustrup and Theo de Raat. Mike Miller wrote in to mention that The Linux Mall now has a floatable 'Linux Headline News Stories' window which updates every 5 minutes. Is it worth adding something like that here or not? Lastly, everybody and their mother wrote in to tell me that Linux 2.1.118 is now available in the usual places.

Mike Miller wrote in to tell us about Forbes Magazine running a poll to decide on your Internet Hero. For those who have paid attention, I have stopped posting polls because the Slashdot Effect was wrecking them for people, but this poll is a textual one. They ask you to write instead of just checking a box, so I figure we all can post good answers and not just skew things HtAD style. Questions include what 'net company will die first and who is your 'net hero.

Steven Weller sent us a link to a screenshot at Mac OS Rumors showing a screenshot of a user running a plethora of emulators inside emulators. Really cool. fredric pointed us to a PC Magazine article about the Cobalt Qube winning an Editors' Choice award. Finally, Mike Miller sent us a link to a cool story on open source software, written by a Microsoft employee.