CUPS is the Common Unix Printing System, and it solves a multitude of problems. My guess is that it will become the Linux standard before long. Mostly, CUPS works.

The Microwindows Development Toolkit is based on Microwindows, a windowing environment that targets the Linux framebuffer and can also be ported fairly easily to other environments.

Apparently PR types think that Red Hat Linux has become a separate and distinct operating system. The question is, are they right? And is it a problem? What is an operating system in Linux? Or are there several? Or is there even such a thing?

Linux is apparently starting to inch its way into the realm of enterprise computing in the Philippines as more large companies put their faith in open-source technology.

From the investor’s point of view, the Linux picture has been nothing short of disastrous. For example, share value in the once-mighty Red Hat has plummeted from its 52-week high of $148 to around $7 per share. Similarly, VALinux share price has fallen from a 52-week high of $179.25 to about $7 per share. Meanwhile, Linuxcare has postponed its anticipated IPO indefinitely citing market conditions.

The NCSA announced plans to install two IBM Linux clusters to create the world’s fastest Linux supercomputers. NCSA’s clusters, which will be housed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will have 2 teraflops of computing power. They will be used by researchers in many scientific fields, including those studying the nature of gravitational waves, computational biology and computational chemistry.

Linux software and support company VA Linux Systems today more than halved its expected revenues for its 2001 fiscal year, boding of tough times ahead and showing how tough it is to make money off open source software.

"I will be looking at three solutions: Trustix, WireX's ImmunixOS, and the NSA's "Security-Enhanced Linux" (an impressive-sounding name). I will not be directly comparing them, however, as all three are aimed at solving very different problems. Rather, I'm going to cover what they do well, and what they don't do so well."

This is the twenty-third release of IBM's Enterprise JFS technology port to Linux. The twenty-third drop on January 12, 2001 (jfs-0.1.3.tar.gz) includes fixes to the file system. Fsck now supports fifo correctly. Drop 23 has the temporary restriction that the block size must be 4K. MKFS.jfs defaults the block size to 4K.

"Specifically, I want to focus on Linux, which might be the best example of a truly disruptive technology that we've seen since the advent of the Internet. The Innovator's Dilemma theory gives us a guide to understand how established software firms risk missing the boat with respect to Linux, just as brick-and-mortar retailers were overtaken on the Net by smaller, more daring startups."