LINUX comes in lots of different flavors, from Red Hat to SuSE to TurboLinux. But that's nothing compared to the plethora of Window Managers that are available for Linux.

Why should Sun release Java under the GPL? GPL Java undermines the supremacy of Windows and disrupts Microsoft's plans for its latest Java competitor, C#. In addition, Linux faithful will more likely develop for a GPL Java.

SGI has installed one of the first Intel Itanium-based Linux clustered systems at the Ohio Supercomputer Center to test Linux clusters as a replacement for massively parallel processor systems.

This is a comprehensive website with a lot of links, information, news, articles, HOWTO's,

security reports etc for the Linux OS. This site also has a built-in search engine and a meta-crawler.

If the Penguistas entertain serious hopes of carrying out their revolution, they'll most certainly need the embrace of the most establishment computer maker of them all.

IBM has packaged together the software for its three most requested servers -- database, e-mail and Web application -- into what it describes as the first integrated Linux solution for small businesses.

This article is a guide to working with .arc, .arj, .lzh (.lha), .rar, .sit, .zip, and .zoo files on the Linux operating system. Those formats are used most often by users of the three most popular operating systems (MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS).

Almost two years ago, Stallman met with lawyers from "various interested companies" about how to encourage commercial use of the GPL and GPL-based software. Stallman believes that this is compatible with Free Software principles. "The first priority of the GPL is to protect the users' freedom, but all else being equal, I would rather make it easier for business to use."

While substantial progress will occur, Linux will still face challenges in displacing mature, well-established OS environments that continue to benefit from the research and development resources of Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard and IBM.

The growing popularity of the Internet has made many of the proprietary protocols dry up. Both Microsoft and Novell have, with the latest incarnations of their networking schemes, adopted TCP/IP as their standard. The protocol of focus in this article will be TCP/IP.