… in fact it is. I actually think I heard of it when it first was news. But http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Unified_Kernel is a project for patching the linux kernel to run windows executables nativily. It still has a long way to go, I didn’t even manage to get it to compile (though I didn’t try very hard either), but it’s definitivly worth keeping an eye on.
Another cool app I found recently is lftp. This should really be the standard ftp client in *nix. It supports everything, and it’s even better than wget. Yes, that’s right, wget. And not comparable to ncftp.
And then there’s mingw. Also old news, but if I didn’t hear about it, it’s news to me! Anyways, it lets you compile windows excutables under linux. Very neat. I guess that’s it … well I could mention that I recently found out about the acl system in most linux compatible fs’s which you can use with setfacl and getfacl, but that was probably never news …