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To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (1820)	11/15/1999 9:51:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2617

Lining up for Linux (11/15/99, 5:37 p.m. ET) By Paula Rooney, Computer Reseller News While the industry waits for Windows 2000, backers of Linux Monday detailed upcoming futures for their own operating system kernel. With the Linux 2.4 kernel set for release by year's end, companies such as Caldera Systems, Red Hat, and TurboLinux are prepping major new distributions for the release during the second quarter of 2000, executives said at a Comdex press conference. The Linux 2.4 kernel, under the guidance of Linus Torvalds, will feature improved support for SMP, laptops, and PCMCIA cards, and faster performance for file-system services, said several Linux backers. For example, the updated kernel will offer improved caching for file look-up and disk caching. techweb.com

To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (1820)	11/16/1999 12:54:00 PM
From: MICHAEL DEL ROSARIO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2617

There was a recent Merrill Lynch projection that Sony will sell around 100 million units of PS2 by 2004. If Sony is looking to tie in consumer electronics and PC computing using then I am assuming Linux to be the platform. Below are comments from Sony's president. Painting one of Sony's leading products into the picture, Kazuo "Kaz" Hirai, president of Sony Computer Entertainment America, added that "PlayStation 2 will revolutionize the what and how of the in-home entertainment experience." The age of standalone PCs will end with the arrival of Sony's Net-ready game console device next year, he proclaimed. "PCs are pretty much confined today and mostly in the future to telephone-based, 'narrow-band' network," Hirai said. The PlayStation, meanwhile, is being built for electronic distribution of content through fast, "broadband" connections such as DSL and cable modems. Content will help accelerate the deployment of these communications technologies into the homes of consumers, he added. Idei said Sony "wants to be one of the top five companies in the broadband world." That Microsoft might be one of the companies that gets knocked off its perch as a result was a possibility at which Sony speakers hinted.