Having survived mysterious apostrophes and commas in my columns, weeks of flame wars and assaults from hostile geek warriors, large and expensive Linux handbooks, and useful, enlightening and conflicting suggestions from friendly Slashdotters, a Linux Box was delivered this week to my house this week. Technology being what it is, that's only the beginning of the story, which quickly came to involve CompUSA (the literal incarnation of computer Hell) my yellow lab, a geek hero and a computer savagely assaulted by an overnight delivery service. And I haven't even gotten to Linux yet. Johnny Depp, are you reading this?

fractality writes "With the recent chatter about standardization, it is apparent that some are simply not looking in the right places. A group of people from Verio South Florida have begun one of the most unified and viable XStandard projects. While it is still under development, expect to see this effort start to make headlines. Besides the obvious standardization project, xwindows.org is also an excellent X distribution site."

Joshy has written an excellent piece after going to visit the Xerox PARC. Joshy also talks about what we could learn from the Star, and gives some ideas on how Linux could benefit as well.