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Andy Oram has written a nice article looking at broadband internet access and the governmental policies that need to be in place if fast, symmetric internet access is to be widely available and affordable in the U.S. The U.S. still doesn't have fiber to the home, and if the last couple of competing DSL providers go under, we may never get it. In the meantime, the U.S. government is approaching the problem by eliminating regulations on the Baby Bells, which is sort of like combating street crime by taking police officers off the street.

Chris Halsall writes "Based on the great feedback generated by the posting of my Web Browsers under Linux article on /. and LinuxToday last month, WebReview has published an unplanned follow-up article covering four more browsers.

By Popular Demand: More Linux Browsers "

juniorboy writes "This is an article reviewing 5 web-browsers that run on Linux. " Really not a lot of surprises, but its itneresting that the number of reviews of this nature focusing on Linux are increasing.

Jeremy Dinsel writes "Web Review covers Open Source Software as an option for web development. They include several articles including topics such as the Apache, the GIMP and Linux. "

Ricardo Kustner writes " MySQL, together with PHP, just got the 'DB of the year' award from Web techniques/Web review at WEB 98! Rasmus, the creator of PHP was in San Fransisco and accepted the award."

Ricardo Kustner writes " MySQL, together with PHP, just got the 'DB of the year' award from Web techniques/Web review at WEB 98! Rasmus, the creator of PHP was in San Fransisco and accepted the award."

Jim writes about a "Great story on Free Sofware written by Tim O'Reilly...talks about bind, sendmail, Apache and Linux. "

Alex Butcher writes "Web Review currently have a couple of articles of Open Source here and one by Larry (God) Wall here. Nothing new, but not the comment about Linux and 'an as-yet-unmatched level of technical support'."