What do you get when you cross Sun Microsystems and the open source community centered on Linux? I thought the answer was lower-cost servers that run Linux, which is what Sun announced this week. But Sun CEO Scott McNealy has far grander ambitions that he hopes the open source community will help him achieve: breaking Microsoft's grip on the desktop and expanding Sun's hardware offerings.

Nvidia have released a new set of Linux NForce Drivers Version: 1.0-0241 and documentation for the nForce chipset. The chipset includes hardware support for IDE disk control, ethernet networking, audio support, win modem support, and a USB controller. These packages have support for ethernet networking and basic ACI audio. USB and IDE hardware will work with standard Linux drivers. There is no win modem support

The XBox Linux Project team seem to have released a new pre-alpha XBox BIOS. Here's what they got to say about it:

This is the first release of the replacement BIOS. It initializes all PCI peripherals and performs the PIC watchdog challenge, so that we have full and stable control of the machine. No Microsoft code or keys are used.

Just saw this @ Xbetas.com , which was Xtechnet.net!

This beta from Red Hat, code-named Limbo, is significant in that it provides a first look at what will likely become Version 8.0 of the company's industry-leading Linux distribution. Limbo's inclusion of OpenOffice, Mozilla, GNOME 2.0, and a host of new and improved graphical system configuration tools may point the way to a greater presence for Red Hat in the desktop computing space.

A new public beta of the dedicated Linux server for Medal of Honor: Allied Assault is available, improving this server option for the WWII first-person shooter by 2015. This release offers a few new console options and several other enhancements.

Planet-XP did it again! Today they have a big screenshot gallery of the latest Mandrake Linux 9.0 Beta1 version. If you want to take a first look, head over to Planet-XP.

Raven Software has released the promised patch for Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix, upgrading their recent mercenary first-person shooter to version 1.01. This release offers four new multiplayer maps, the Demolition game mode, the new MP5SD weapon, and numerous improvements and fixes for both the single- and multiplayer sides of the game. A new dedicated Linux server has been released as well, like for version 1.01.

Savagenews.com reports as the names tells Kyro Linux Tools is a tweaker and overclocker for those of you that have KYRO I or II and use any Linux OS.

The Slackware Linux Project have released Slackware 8.1.

Highlights of this release include KDE 3.0.1, GNOME 1.4.1 (with new additions like Evolution), the long-awaited Mozilla 1.0 browser, support for many new filesystems like ext3, ReiserFS, JFS, and XFS, and support for several new SCSI and ATA RAID controllers.

The Counter Strike server files are out now! This is the full v1.5 linux port. Only download this if your running a server. You also must have the Half-Life HLDS Linux Port as a base. Read More for links.

It's that time again, yep, another kernel update - 2.5.19 is out there, including lots of drivers ported to the new API, and lots of ia64 and PPC32 fixes! Press Read More for further info!!

Nvidia released a new set of drivers for Linux 1.0-2960!. No word of what's new or the performance yet. Click on Read More... for a download link

Wahoooo! One of my favorites browsers next version was released today. Personally I like the speed of it and the download manager that comes with it. Anyway here is the official word from Opera. Today, Opera Software launched the latest update to its desktop browser, Opera 6.02 for Windows, and at the same time announced its all-time high of 10 million successful downloads and installations of its Opera for Windows browser. Opera 6.02 for Windows enhances many of the existing features, boosts speed, adds new integrated searches with eBay and Download.com in the Personal bar, and incorporates several improvements to the popular Opera 6 for Windows. To view new features and download, please press the read more link.

Two SuSE 8.0 reviews blossom on the web. The first can be found at TheRegister, while the second one is courtesy of LinuxBeginner. LinuxBeginner also includes four screenshots of the YaST2 configuration tool, which substancially can help newbies configure their SuSE Linux with ease.

DivX 5.0.1 is now available for Linux. Version 5.0.1 also includes the DivX 5.x encoder on Linux for the first time.

Nvidia have released new nForce drivers for Linux Mandrake 8.2 v1.0-0236! Dated April 23, 2002.

Just got word from Digital Oracle that Suse Linux 8.0 has been released! Here's what he's saying.

Personally I have been waiting for this particular distribution of Linux to be release and today it arrived. This looks like a very good version and comes with Kernel 2.4.18, glibc 2.2.5, support for NVIDIA?s Geforce 3 and the first distribution to come with the final version of the KDE 3.0 desktop environment system.

Savagenews.com have got their hands on new KYRO Linux drivers and new Savage2000 drivers. Below is their information.

PowerVR has released the second Beta - beta 2 ( Build 2.00.20.0234) of their Linux drivers for the KYRO/KYRO II and we've got another new Savage2000 driver for Win9x/ME. A few other drivers for the Savages were released as well.

I saw this @ BetaNews.
Red Hat Linux. The newest addition to Red Hat's line of award-winning Linux operating systems--the most trusted open source operating systems in the world. Red Hat Linux features installation options more powerful, support options more complete, and high availability clustering more advanced than ever before. We've also included some of the world's most popular Internet applications, Apache and Sendmail. Click on Read More... to see what the changes/more information and a link for downloads.

Nvidia released a new set of drivers for Linux 1.0-2880.

What's New?

GeForce4 and Quadro4 Support.
OpenGL® 1.3 with NVIDIA extensions.
Compatibility fixes (see the NVIDIA_Changelog installed with the release)