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+`Lasu' Releases SAG 0.3 -- Freeware Book Takes Paves For New World Order
+by staff writers
+
+Helsinki, Finland, August 6, 1995 -- In a surprise movement, Lars
+``Lasu'' Wirzenius today released the 0.3 edition of the ``Linux System
+Administrators' Guide''.  Already an industry non-classic, the new
+version sports such overwhelming features as an overview of a Linux
+system, a completely new climbing session in a tree, and a list of
+acknowledgements in the introduction.
+	The SAG, as the book is affectionately called, is one of the
+corner stones of the Linux Documentation Project.  ``We at the LDP feel
+that we wouldn't be able to produce anything at all, that all our work
+would be futile, if it weren't for the SAG,'' says Matt Welsh, director
+of LDP, Inc.
+	The new version is still distributed freely, now even with a
+copyright that allows modification.  ``More dough,'' explains the author.
+Despite insistent rumors about blatant commercialization, the SAG will
+probably remain free.  ``Even more dough,'' promises the author.
+	The author refuses to comment on Windows NT and Windows 96
+versions, claiming not to understand what the question is about.
+Industry gossip, however, tells that Bill Gates, co-founder and CEO of
+Microsoft, producer of the Windows series of video games, has visited
+Helsinki several times this year.  Despite of this, Linus Torvalds,
+author of the word processor Linux with which the SAG was written, is
+not worried.  ``We'll have world domination real soon now, anyway,'' he
+explains, ``for 1.4 at the lastest.''
+	The SAG is one of the major products developed via the Information
+Superhighway, the brain child of Al Gore, US Vice President.  The ISHW
+is being developed with massive govenment funding, since studies show
+that it already has more than four hundred users, three years before
+the first prototypes are ready.  Asked whether he was worried about the
+foreign influence in an expensive American Dream, the vice president
+said, ``Finland?  Oh, we've already bought them, but we haven't told
+anyone yet.  They're great at building model airplanes as well.  And _I_
+can spell potato.''  House representatives are not mollified, however,
+wanting to see the terms of the deal first, fearing another Alaska.
+	Rumors about the SAG release have imbalanced the American stock
+market for weeks.  Several major publishing houses reached an all time
+low in the New York Stock Exchange, while publicly competing for the
+publishing agreement with Mr. Wirzenius.  The negotiations did not work
+out, tough.  ``Not enough dough,'' says the author, although spokesmen
+at both Prentice-Hall and Playboy, Inc., claim the author was incapable
+of expressing his wishes in a coherent form during face to face talks,
+preferring to communicate via e-mail.  ``He kept muttering something
+about jiffies and pegs,'' they say.
+	The central Superhighway site called ``sunsite.unc.edu''
+collapsed in the morning before the release.  News about the release had
+been leaked by a German hacker group, Harmonious Hardware Hackers, who
+had cracked into the author's computer earlier in the week.  They had
+got the release date wrong by one day, and caused dozens of eager fans
+to connect to the sunsite computer at the wrong time.  ``No computer can
+handle that kind of stress,'' explained the mourning sunsite manager,
+Erik Troan.  ``The spinning disks made the whole computer jump, and
+finally it crashed through the floor to the basement.''  Luckily,
+repairs were swift and the computer was working again the same evening.
+``Thank God we were able to buy enough needles and thread and patch it
+together without major problems.''  The site has also installed a new
+throttle on the network pipe, allowing at most four clients at the same
+time, thus making a new crash less likely.  ``The book is now in our
+Incoming folder'', says Troan, ``and you're all welcome to come and get it.''