Redhat 7 has recently received a lot of criticism, especially from Slashdot, who in my opinion, grossly misreported the number of reported bugs in it. I have always liked Redhat and I was looking forward to trying this new version since I miss using RPM's, short for Redhat Package Manager files which are self contained archives of software.

Companies attempting to profit off the Linux operating system are having the same problems as those looking to make a buck off selling water: How do you make money when your product is ubiquitous and free?

The three trends in creating embedded devices is that the cost of hardware, network bandwidth and software are all going towards zero, but Linux already has a cost of zero.

The Plex86 project has some way to go before it achieves the slickness of the latest commercial VMWare releases. But at $299 or $399 VMWare is priced for business users, rather than for light users, enough to prohibit it from being bundled in the majority of desktop distros.

Linux system vendor VA Linux is boxed in. On one side of the equation you have broke dot-com startups that can't buy VA Linux boxes. On the other side, you have enterprise giants IBM, HP, Compaq and Dell getting serious about Linux systems.

Corel will soon spill the beans on its plan for recovery - potentially including the sale of the company's Linux business - president and CEO Derek Burney has said. The announcement will be made in three weeks' time.

VA Linux Systems met lowered Wall Street expectations with a first quarter pro forma net loss of $7 million, a loss of about 15 cents per diluted share, compared to a loss of $7.2 million, or 27 cents per share, for the same period last year.

In all the excitement and fury that surrounds the Open source movement and in no small measure Linux itself, it is often very easy to forget the origins and beginnings of this unique and often misunderstood development mechanism.

Linux will acquire features better suited for high-end use as a result of Caldera Systems' pending acquisition of technology assets from Santa Cruz Operation.

The Plex86 project is about creating an extensible open source PC virtualization software program which will allow PC and workstation users to run multiple operating systems concurrently on the same machine. It is now able to run Windows 95 in addition to FreeDOS, MSDOS and Linux.