Many of the text processing GNU tools include a powerful pattern matching mechanism called Regular Expressions. A more or less complete implementation is supported by a utility called egrep.

Though installing the Gimp-Print software was not a trivial undertaking, the results were impressive. Come along as Joe prepares his Linux box to use an Epson Stylus Color 880 printer.

Linux power Red Hat wants to be your buddy, your pal and your partner. The company's new Red Hat Certified Service Provider Program offers specialized consulting and co-marketing programs, as well as technology and support services for ASP, ISPs, Web hosts, and other types of service providers.

Linux may be cheap, but you can't simply mix, measure and pour. Just like any great recipe, it takes time, effort and mistakes.

A wave of Linux clustered machines has been anticipated since 1994, when the Goddard Space Flight Center produced the first Beowulf cluster. But only recently have the tools become available for the Linux cluster to become a more manageable engine on the Internet.

The most aggressive expansion plans for Linux deployments will come from small companies and large organizations over the next year, according to a new research report from Zona Research Inc.

Over the last month, the big IT industry players have yet again been jostling for position in the Linux market, overshadowing any moves from the Linux Big Four - Red Hat, SuSE, Caldera and TurboLinux.

The end of October saw the release of Trolltech's Qt/Embedded Linux development tool under the GPL. This will allow developers of embedded Linux devices use Qt/Embedded without the restriction of being unable to modify the source code. A well known developer of Embedded Linux systems is Lineo which stands to benefit from this decision.

Red Hat promoted its vice president of operations, Kevin Thompson, to the position of Chief Financial Officer. The announcement comes on the same day that Red Hat will hold its first-ever analyst's day where the company is expected to outline its business strategy to achieve 80% revenue growth and profitability by its mid-2001 target.

The CUPS software provides a way for Unix/Linux users to manage printing in an efficient and reliable manner. It natively supports IPP and has interfaces for LPD, SMB, and JetDirect. With CUPS you can run a printer on a Linux machine as easily as they can on a Windows machine, but with the power of Linux.