Caldera Systems has hired open-source guru John Terpstra to be its technology vice president in a push to link the company with outside open-source efforts.

A Korean venture firm has developed the world's first Linux-based mobile phone, which the company says can easily handle multimedia functions such as video conferencing, and playback and transmission of music files. The phone runs on Palm Palm's Linux-based operating system called Tynux.

If you think Linux is the choice of geeks only, think again. Many of the large software vendors are now shipping Linux versions of their software. In this article I'll take you through some of these product offerings.

"You can leverage Linux to provide massive cost savings. Linux can save money and save people. The best thing about it, is you can just put it in a corner and forget it."

"Security is not an option, but a way of life". This is the mantra given by Kurt

Seifried, the author of the famed 'Linux Administrators Security Guide' and

numerous other Security HOWTO's available out there.

The theme in these series of articles is to make one aware of the trivial

security concerns on a stock Linux box. This article aims at giving novice users

an insight into conducting a security audit of their systems and helping them

take corrective measures in order to avoid any future security lapses.

"I ended up with no evidence that any of the Linux companies that are publicly traded is turning a nickel's profit. The non-public companies I've talked with are facing hard times as well. One or two are just about out of money, with not much coming in."

Two trends in particular will converge over the next year or so to push Linux towards critical mass in its march toward world domination: major Linux deployments and increased VAR/ISV support. The question IT managers ask will shift from "can Linux do it?" to "how can we get Linux to do it here?"

Emacspeak is a software package aimed at the blind - one that claims to provide seamless blending of all aspects of the Internet experience into one single audio desktop. A new Linux distribution, Ocularis, aims to create a complete Audio User Interface, create a complete Linux distribution, aimed at blind people.

This article shows you how to customize the prompt for a BASH shell. The article works with BASH since it's the shell that most users use and is the shell that every distribution picks as its default shell.

This a step-by-step tutorial on converting your old Eudora, Netscape, and Outlook messages into Balsa and kmail files.