It was not the GNOME Foundation itself that bothered me, but the fact that many people believed that KDE was doomed because it had no commercial backing. Many companies have been supporting KDE for years now, so I felt it was time to make some noise about it.

A Massachusetts PC reseller is going co-op in an effort to boost open-source development. Spindletop System Dynamics of Cambridge, Massachusetts, will only sell computers and peripherals that it rates the best supporters of Linux and FreeBSD, an older Unix-based operating system.

In what must be one of the most surreal stories we've ever covered, Microsoft has awarded a Linux devotee with one of the company's most coveted patents awards -even though the recipient has never worked for Microsoft.

The rapidly changing demographic composition of the Linux community means that we have perhaps outgrown the ability of a benevolent dictatorship to look after the interests of all stakeholders. If nothing is done to recognise and include all stakeholders in a more participative process, a kernel fork may soon occur.

When my friends visited with their laptops, they plugged into the local area network and would have to muck about with their network settings. I got tired of reconfiguring everything from Solaris to Windows 98 when they came over, so I bit the bullet and installed the DHCP daemon. It was actually easier than I expected.

Postfix is now more useful than ever as a gateway mail server. This article covers some of the more interesting available features and how you can use them to secure and protect your email infrastructure.

Compaq has released a pair of ProLiant servers that come preloaded with Red Hat's version of Linux, fulfilling a promise made last summer that the open-source operating system would start being bundled with some of its machines.

"No one was ever fired for buying IBM" is an old saying in the corporate computing ranks. With Big Blue and Linux now so closely intertwined, it seems the word "IBM" in that IT adage could soon substituted with "Linux."

This article covers some of the design decisions that have to be made before creating a firewall, from architecture to various decisions that should be made.

In order for the business to be successful, it needs to be bigger than it is, said Derek Burney, chief executive. There are a number of ways to do that. We could acquire the missing pieces, we could merge with someone, or we could simply sell it. We are prepared to look at any possibility.