Microsoft Corp. opened a new technology center that will allow online retailers and other dot-coms to design and test a variety of tools. The center will provide a demonstration platform for companies trying to decide between Microsoft-Intel offerings and competing strategies from Sun Microsystems, Oracle and Linux.

The Toronto Star article criticized Red Hat for omitting the GNU Project from a list of milestones in "open source" software. I must defend Red Hat for this; it would be improper to include GNU in such a list, because that would be associating us with the wrong movement.

What happens in computer journalism sometimes is that the enterprise market tends to be dissed more often than it should, or at the very worst simply taken for granted.

One day after IBM Corp. gave it some cash, TurboLinux Inc. said it would support Big Blue's entire embattled eServer line.

But this is not just any old staid Linux distribution. For one thing, it seems like the developers have a lot of fun, starting with the name of the product. The MNU part of the name MNU/Linux comes from the sound made when you touch a penguin.

Linuxcare has boldly gone where no one else had gone before in creating an open source business model to offer services and only services for Linux and open source software. Although their experience is unique, it also illustrates the type of problems faced by any organization that attempts to launch an open source business model in any area where no one else has done it before.

If you wanted to get on to the net with Linux then you had to write scripts and

mess around with various files and options there. WvDial is the answer to all

all your connection problems. Connecting with WvDial is a short and pleasant

process. WvDial is an intelligent dialer so you don't have to waste your time

debugging chat scripts for various ISPs. If like me, you are on more than one

ISP, then you will appreciate this feature.

In typical Linux fashion, it is a command line program but in atypical

Red Hat 7's version of glibc hasn't been cleared for production use by the glibc maintainers at the GNU project. The GNU web page on glibc insists its most current stable release is 2.1.2 -- older than the version already running in Red Hat's 6.2 package.

IBM Japan Ltd.'s announcement that it will officially support the Linux OS on all of its servers helped trigger the move. Leading vendors, which had managed to handle Linux to some extent, began to follow IBM seriously after this announcement.

TurboLinux is expected to announce a further $30 million in funding from IBM, Intel and others amid a drawn-out plan to go public, sources familiar with the company's plans said.