When you are installing / for the first time, the setup program copies stuff from CD/floppy/hard disk to the intended / partition. When you are moving /, you have to do the copying yourself.

Taming the complexity of your system and figuring out how to get the most out of it is an ongoing adventure. Here is Linuxmag's first annual all-tips article, to help you find the most direct path possible from what you want to do to how to do it with Linux.

In the long run, Cobalt helps Sun hedge its bets against the probability that its Solaris- and Sparc-based systems will not forever hold the lead in the high-end Internet server space.

Now that the Linux operating system is being embraced by the likes of IBM and Dell Computer, the darling of hobbyists is positioned to challenge Windows on several fronts.

To help speed the development of Linux on enterprise-class hardware, several major technology vendors and Linux companies have created the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL).

Linux is popular as a platform for Web and e-mail servers, but it has yet to find success in corporate data and applications or on the desktop. Those markets belong to Unix and Windows respectively. Many software developers, such as Red Hat, Caldera and Corel, have hitched their wagons to the Linux star in the hope that they can crack those markets.

Mr. Cowpland, who remains a director at Corel, said that he and others are on the verge of opening an incubator facility in Hull, Que., for local Linux startups. The incubator, which would provide infrastructure and guidance for smaller firms.

The Linux startups that Corel invested in under Michael Cowpland, former CEO, have seen their financing cut and the turnover in employees at the software maker

has left them with no communication with the Ottawa-based company.

Behind every hype, there's a product. We've been hearing about Red Hat Linux 7 for quite some time now, but even Red Hat has kept quiet about its details. Finally, Red Hat 7 is here.

Linux offers true multitasking and actual multi-user capabilities with the ability to switch from one user login to the next with just a keystroke. It has better virtual memory handling. It mounts several different types of partitions and multiple daemons like mail, ftp, www servers.