"The Linux industry, as most people know it, has yet to really prove it can make a buck. Let's face it -- there's not a whole lot of money to be made selling boxes of Linux on store shelves for $30 or so."

IBM Wednesday has launched a software lab in India to support its customers around the world. The India lab is expected to play an important role in IBM's global Linux initiative.

"Are you normally a Microsoft Windows user who now is using Linux as a second or alternative computer operating system? Or, are you making the switch from Microsoft (MS) Windows to Linux? If so, then chances are that you want your Linux installation to look and to feel as much like MS Windows as possible."

The Linux kernel is the heart of the operating system. It is important that it is kept up to date and working properly for your system to work at its optimum potential. The stable 2.4.0 kernel is a conglomeration of patches and additions that have been made throughout the experimental 2.3.x series of the kernel.

"Open source databases can't compete with the commercial databases in all categories," said Michael "Monty" Widenius, co-founder and main author of MySQL. "We do, however, compete in many of the strategic categories and, as the products expand, we will start to compete in the categories that have traditionally been reserved for the commercial databases," he said.

"This document provides some background on the way we have developed GNOME in the past, the integration work that lies ahead and outlines the problems that we might run into if we are not careful with the goals we set for GNOME 2.0."

Caldera has announced the immediate availability of its OpenLinux eServer 2.3.1 preloaded on Compaq ProLiant ML330, DL320 and DL360 servers. Caldera's updated OpenLinux eServer provides advanced directory service and security features and provides the ability to support new hardware as it becomes available.

The emergence of Linux from the open source sea has challenged established rules and business models for software development and distribution. How can Linux support and training service providers keep the open source faith, flatten the learning curve, and raise their own revenues?

With monthly security patches, feature enhancements, and bug fixes, how do you keep up to date? This article looks at various package management programs that can automate this process and allow you to sync your OS to the latest patches automatically or manually, and also offer ways of keeping a whole network up to date.

More than 350 schools access the Internet using Linux and open source software, but convincing the educational establishment that Linux and open source are of interest and value is an issue.