"In spite of the magic that Windows programmers can do using Microsoft?s suite of operating systems, many of us feel a little like muggles when confronted with Linux. Tough installs, arcane commands, and a dearth of productive development environments keep many of us in our comfortable Windows world. Inprise?s Borland group is trying to entice us onto new platforms using a little bit of magic called Kylix."

In the traditional BSD style of startup, there are only a few initialization scripts, which are something like the autoexec.bat and config.sys pair of DOS. Commands are executed and services are loaded up sequentially as given in the scripts.

The /proc file system is only a "virtual" file system. What this means is that none of the "files" that it contains are stored on your hard disk. Rather, it is a way to easily access dynamic information about your system at any time, and only exists in memory.

Thousands of progressive Linux users are downloading kernel sources, preparing to reap the benefits of new and improved hardware support. As the flurry of upgrading goes on, many newer Linux users are searching the Web for kernel assistance. Many kernel help pages tell users how to compile the kernel, but do not explain how to prepare for a new kernel.

"I was looking for a calendar system that would allow me to keep track of events, appointments, and project dates. Quite a few of the applications that I looked at were written in PHP and used a database to keep track of events. Since I had already planned on configuring an extra computer for use as a web server, I figured that it wouldn't be much more work to add PHP and MySQL to it."

"After reading a story about how Microsoft is now openly admitting that Linux is the number one threat to Windows, I realized that I am one of very few people whose entire home/office computer network is 100% Microsoft-free. And I manage to get along just fine, thank you."

The AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications is designed to build Linux applications that can take advantage of AIX's full range of capabilities. It also gives users more flexibility in deploying a mix of AIX and Linux applications for e-business solutions running natively under either AIX or Linux.

Lineo has withdrawn its plans for an initial public offering, a sign that investor pessimism has swept into a previously optimistic part of the Linux landscape.

IBM will make substantial investments in Linux in 2001 to mount a multipronged attack—with technology, marketing, and services—against UNIX competitors and Windows 2000.

Less than two weeks after earning the No. 4 slot on Wired.com's Top 10 list for the biggest vaporware projects of 2000, the Linux kernel development team finally unveiled a pre-production release of the long-awaited 2.4 kernel.