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John Ousterhout leaves SunScript Contributed by CmdrTaco on Thu Feb 5 23:38:53 1998 EST [Sun Microsystems] From the other-disappearing-acts Dept Markus Fleck (aka python) wrote in to say "John Ousterhout, author of the Tcl language and the Tk toolkit, also of Spring OS fame, has left SunScript to form his own company, called Scriptics, to promote the use and further development of Tcl. - I suppose that Sun didn't find paying for Tcl development worthwhile any more, because there has hardly been any revenue from it yet (even the source for the Tcl Plugin for web browsers was made freely available when a poll showed that too few people would be willing to pay for being able to execute "Tclets" in their browsers)."

Be x86 Coming Contributed by CmdrTaco [Be] Thu Feb 5 16:26:43 1998 EST From the mr-be-sharp dept. Sean Simmons wrote in to tell us that BeOS for x86 should be released at SD98. Check out this TechWeb Story for more details. I would love to get my hands on a copy. Read More... 21 comment(s)

Should Netscape Sell Linux? Contributed by Justin [Netscape] Thu Feb 5 16:11:27 1998 EST From the not-a-bad-idea dept. An article at the Boston Globe presents an interesting solution to Netscape's recent losses in the browser war. The author suggests Netscape create and sell their own Linux distribution, the reason being that Microsoft will be able to leverage their control of the operating system for some time. Read on. Read More... 38 comment(s)

2600 In Danger Contributed by CmdrTaco Thu Feb 5 10:56:14 1998 EST From the sounds-familiar dept. I)ruid wrote in to say " 2600 The Hacker Quarterly, has recently been having financial problems due to it's previous distributor. To find out the whole story, check out this page. 2600 needs our help, but will not accept donations. However, there is a LOT of merchandice in stock, and buying up their overstock will definately help, as well as going down to your local bookstore and requesting that they carry 2600. So if you appreciate 2600 as much as I do, let's help give them the help they need." My sentiments exactly. Read More... 8 comment(s)

Cooking pot markets Contributed by CmdrTaco Thu Feb 5 10:27:02 1998 EST From the must-read dept. Hackworth sent us a link to an article entitled Cooking pot markets. The article is an extremely good read, and addresses issues like What Motiviates Free Software guys. I suspect most of us free software guys already know what is said here, but this article puts it very clearly for people who might understand it a bit less can be clued it. Read More... 3 comment(s)

Des2, Bovine and Slashdot Contributed by CmdrTaco [Encryption] Thu Feb 5 10:09:40 1998 EST From the bits-and-bytes dept. Distributed.net has been working hard to crack the Des2 contest inside the 22 day limit, but it doesn't look like it's going to happen, despite Team Slashdot's rising in the ranks to #13. Thanks to the 125-150 of you who have been contributing keys in our name!

Editorials

Slashdot is participating in RC5. Read who's helping, and why. Check out Our Current Rank.

Read Rob's Solution to the Browser Battle and a followup with comments from a Netscape Engineer. Interesting especially now that Netscape Agreed!

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