Linux on the iSeries won’t be available for several more weeks, but attendees at LinuxWorld in New York and the Linux Expo in Paris last week got a sneak peak at the operating system. IBM displayed a 4-way iSeries 820 running OS/400 in one partition and Linux in the other three to illustrate that iSeries could support more than one Linux image.

The last column showed you how to configure a Linux-based monitoring system with dual network interface cards. This one shows you how to install and configure IPtraf, a traffic analysis utility, and how to use GNUplot, an open source plotting package, to graph the data gathered.

Welcome to New York, financial capital of the world. Linux isn't here to run some little web server--banks and other financial institutions are one good proposal and a couple of meetings away from rolling it out in their data centers.

Caldera Systems Inc. will soon close its acquisition of SCO's Unix business—and jump start its strategy of moving SCO customers to Linux.

"Judging from the time I spent with Ximian and Eazel, two of the major players working to making GNOME the great free hope of desktop computing, Linux is now approaching the status of just good enough."

The president of SuSE Linux AG's US division denied interpreations of statements that were attributed to him in stories published late yesterday, saying that they were taken "out-of-context." Volker Wiegand, President of SuSE, Inc., emphasized that while some jobs were being eliminated in the U.S. offices of SuSE, this would in no way affect the level of services being offered to SuSE's customers.

UnixWare stumbled under three previous owners. But its latest caretaker, Caldera International CEO Ransom Love, plans to show the operating system plenty of affection. Love is working to clearly articulate how partners will benefit, as Caldera builds more bridges between its flagship Linux products and UnixWare.

"Even if a player like Microsoft released a distribution (Black Hat Linux?) with its full marketing power, it would stand little chance of dominating the Linux market or endangering the freedom of open source development. That's because no one on the corporate dark side controls the kernel development--Linux's heart and soul."

Thirty US staff in marketing and product support were made redundant this week, although 14 members of staff remain. The commercial director for SuSE in the UK, says that marketing and support for the US will now be operated from the company's German head office.

Our failure establishes only this,

that our determination to succeed

wasn't strong enough.

--Bovee