Industry sources say Linux Global Partners is poised to sign a letter of intent to buy Corel's Linux division for $5 million.

PeeWeeLinux is an ongoing development effort to provide an environment that makes the configuration and installation of a Linux operating system on an embedded platform as easy and painless as possible.

The CodeWeavers Wine preview is a packaged release of Wine that showcases some of the advances being made in the Wine Project as they drive towards Wine 1.0. It features an easy configuration wizard, launcher and tight integration with GNOME and KDE.

Microsoft isn't actually moving the Windows Media Services server to Linux. That's still a Windows-only play. Instead, they're doing the next best thing: cutting a deal with a company to allow Windows Media Format streams to be served up from Linux servers.

Red Hat has announced that their third quarter revenue was up 112% over last year's third quarter results, and that the company remains on track to achieve profitability next year. The company reported net losses of $0.01 per share this quarter.

The MyLinux PDA project is out to produce a Linux-based PDA out of low-cost, readily available components. The project has some beta units to give out to developers interested in participating.

"Red Hat is now targeting the key OEMs in this space to enable them to develop fully supported, robust, scalable and secure products on the Linux platform that will keep their product live and their brand strong. We are in a unique position to do this thanks to smart acquisitions and investments in the open source market."

Big Blue is scheduled to start shipping its first G7 mainframe, code-named Freeway, as well as an enhanced version of the Shark storage system. The timing is crucial as IBM looks to reinvigorate mainframe sales, stalled in anticipation of the new model, and to position storage more competitively against EMC products.

In a conference call with analysts, VA chief executive Larry Augustin said his company expects that big-business enterprise customers will be a faster-growing segment than the company's traditional customer type, Internet companies.

Installing Red Hat 7.0 is a breeze. Unlike the previous version, which

promised support for the i810 chip but gave up when it came to the crunch,

RH 7.0 has come a long way in hardware auto detection. In fact, we hardly

had to make any manual selections with the exception of Time zone,

programs to install and the like. At last, Red Hat seems to have woken up

to the needs of the average user.

Pre-Install checklist

You would need the following survival equipment

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