There are always two sides to every story. And nowhere is that more apparent than when it comes to the advantages and disadvantages of open source vs. proprietary software.

LynuxWorks has become the second embedded Linux company to file initial public offering plans, hoping to raise about $70 million for its effort to spread the operating system into non-PC computing devices.

The future has never looked better for commercial Unix systems. Far from being threatened by Linux, Unix vendors see it as a teammate pulling in the same direction.

In a new ad campaign, the company has come up with a witty retort to the bullish Linux brigade. Instead of spending its time cowering in darkened rooms every time Linux notches up yet another success, it looks like the company is preparing for a battle of epic proportions.

Although the announcement of Oracle 9i got a lot more publicity, it looks like IBM will get to market first with DB2 7.1 Enterprise-Extended Edition (EEE) for Linux. EEE promises Linux an enterprise database platform that, like Oracle 9i, will catapult Linux into the enterprise.

This tutorial will give you an overview of what the kernel does, as well as instructions on compiling and customizing it to suit your desires.

A competitor of Red Hat says the Linux distributor is acting "proprietary" with its new Web-based support service, Red Hat Networks, but Red Hat says supporting its own software just makes business sense.

The dusty old machine lying in the corner can be revived with Linux. But

when it comes to more memory hungry apps like Netscape and StarOffice then

you're at a loss. If however, you have a Linux machine on your network

with bigger hardware then you're in luck. Make that the X client and

designate the low end machine as the X server.

The X-terminal concept is essentially like telneting into a machine and

then running some application there. All the working is done on the

machine that you are connecting to but the display is shown on your

SUN Microsystems is moving toward making its Java technology fully open-source, a company executive said, addressing an audience of programmers at the ApacheCon Europe 2000.

Officially, the open-source OS is experimental in financial services firms, but it's starting to go into production.