Trae Mc Combs writes "This weeks guest is our fearless OpenSource leader. Take some time to check out the past guest as well." Eric is also author of the wonderful fetchmail program. Next, Mathew R. Ignash writes "For those interested in the new Amiga system and OS that Gateway 2000 sibsidary Amiga Inc. have promised for next year, they have released some conceptual pictures of Amiga OS 5.0." Man - those look really cool! Anyone feel like hacking up the Amiga-like window manager to make it look like one of these?

Mathew R. Ignash writes "It was just announced that a new Amiga gaming magazine called Amiga Survivor is coming at the end of June. It is being distributed worldwide, and is a welcome to the several general purpose Amiga magazines that are still in print. It comes from Crystal Software, who make software, and print Atari, PC, Playstation and M-Crystal magazines already."

Matthew Tebbens wrote in to tell us that he's revamped LinuxApps.com. Pretty cool. Ben Hutchings wrote in to say that supposedly RH5 has been ported unofficially to the Amiga? Any word on this? Dave Whitinger (of Threepoint fame) wrote in to warn us about his Low Bandwidth News List. 1 message/day like 0xdeadbeef. Christopher Gutteridge sent us the nuttiest thing I've seen in some time: The Visible Mars Bar Project is one of the coolest pages I've seen in awhile. Nate and I were gonna do a Bananna awhile back, but just never got around to it. Definately worth a gander if you're familiar with the visible human project. Seth Vidal wrote in to tell us about netwinder.org, Corel's new site dedicated to Corel's Uber Geeky Linux NC.

It's late. Watchin' MST. Cursing slow 21.6 connection. Sharing good stuff: Trae wrote in to tell us that this weeks Guest Tiler is Mandrake. Ben Hutchings wrote in with a link to Official Word on the Amiga/Linux stuff. Jambi wrote in to seek help in his network analysis work. Brandon Beattie wrote in to see if anyone out there is interested in assisting in developing a Linux game. Interested folks should email. Brian Keifer sent us a link to an article talking about Atomic Microscope Technology which could allow amazing amounts of fast data storage.

Nyle Landas writes "From two stories from the Amiga Web Directory can you say cool Linux/Amiga box. I knew you could boys and girls. Rumored new PC and Amiga comptible Amiga for $800 to $1150 USD. This rumor coincides with the official news that Amiga Inc. is to Make Major Announcement on May 15TH at London Amiga Show"

We've been consistently scoring in the top 10 overall teams over at distributed.net. Despite the fact that yesterday the Amiga team beat us, we're doing great. But we need more! Throw a client on anything that has a clock rate and set that team to Slashdot *grin*. New clients have been released in the last few weeks with various optimized cores that will crack keys faster. Get to it!

Mathew R. Ignash wrote in with this story where you can read the specs on the new Amigas. PowerPC based. 300mhz, multicpu, Voodoo video and an ATX case. Quite impressive since it should retail under $2k.

This link was sent to us by alert reader David Hill. Amiga Inc has announced that they will be making 68k and PPC Amiga's. There will also be clones and licensing of the AmigaOS