Linux supporters have long claimed the transparent nature of open-source development produces more secure software and fixes bugs faster than proprietary companies such as Microsoft and Oracle do. Even if that's true, Linux will need to prove it can deliver this security to the growing mass of open-source converts who are not particularly tech-savvy and are accustomed to Microsoft-style one-click upgrades.

After infecting NASA and Texas A&M University last week, the worm is making its move on Linux servers abroad, as vandals use the program to post digital graffiti.

The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based chipmaker announced that the University of Delaware has installed a 128-processor supercomputer based on 1GHz AMD Athlon processors and the Linux operating system. The new supercomputer at the university's Bartol Research Institute is AMD's fifth supercomputer.

According to Corel CEO Derek Burney, though his company retains a "commitment to the future of Linux," Corel's still in the process of examining how its Linux distribution will be spun off as the company focuses more on creative applications and its core money-makers: CorelDRAW and WordPerfect.

"With all the choices of graphical e-mail clients available to Linux users, the reader may wonder why I would spend time on a terminal based e-mail program. Like other debates on GUI vs. terminal base applications, the answer to this question is "it depends". Let me start with why I use Mutt and then why you might like it too."

The first new products released by Cobalt since its acquisition by Sun are still running Linux, but that may not be the end of the story. IBM thinks Sun's actions have "let the Linux genie out of the bottle" and Sun won't be able to put it back in, or control it. And at least one IBM exec thinks that IBM's Linux strategy is starting to pay off.

Linux and Palm OS are both good operating environments, but both have distinct drawbacks. Most expert users of both platforms, if they took a dispassionate look, could probably outline those drawbacks better than anyone else. But the moment they hear a discouraging word, some of these OS partisans get lathered up and have to fight back -- even if no one was really challenging them.

This article explains how to access the various Windows filesystems from Linux, and how to access ext2fs from Windows. Find tips on mounting partitions and using Samba, and take a look into the future of Linux-Windows cross-file access.

This list is not a complete list of all the hotkeys available, we could spend days on some of the more obscure and/or mundane ones. Instead, this list covers the more useful and generic ones trying not to be application specific.

Priced at $199, the device offers Internet access and plug-and-play e-mail and boasts support for most popular printers, instant messaging, MP3 player enhancements and more games, among other things.