The past few months has been extremely difficult for Linuxcare. The support service company which began servicing the Linux community a little over a year ago has been recovering from what can only be described as a frightening bombardment

of bad press.

Mosix implements a Single System Image cluster (SSI). SSI clusters are best because they give users the impression of working on a single giant computer instead of a cluster of individual nodes.

Corel Corp. has struck a strategic alliance with Microsoft Corp. that will see the global software giant invest $135 million US in the troubled Ottawa software

company.

If the analysts at Meta Group are correct, Sun Microsystem's expensive acquisition of Cobalt Networks may be a further step in a sophisticated play that both neutralises Linux as a direct threat and increases pressure on Microsoft.

You're an open source programmer, or you want to be. You're looking for a project that'll bring you some combination of education, good times, and money. How do you find it?

When the SPARC is already strongly supported by its creator, Sun Microsystems, and there already exists an operating system optimised for it which does the job, where does Linux belong? Would someone choose SuSE Linux over Sun Solaris on SPARC in a commercial environment?

Linux has been missing personal finance manager applications - but no longer. The rush for commercial standard apps has bred some high quality, robust programs

for the Linux community.

Cron comes in handy when you want to schedule a specific task to be run when ever you please, on the minute, hourly, daily, monthly and gives you a sense of relief knowing tasks are being executed without you having to baby-sit your system.

Irving Wladawksy-Berger says that Open Source is as important as the Internet to IBM.

Blind computers users had more difficulty than most people when they made the transition from DOS to Windows. Would a switch to Linux be as great a problem? Here's someone who thinks it would instead make their computing experience easier and richer.