Mr. Bill Gates recently said a few things about Linux. First he said that Linux was just hype and that it cannot compete with Windows on ease-of-use. He also said the Open Source model doesn't offer any great benefit in terms of reliability and security.

Right now I am very concerned about some of the larger companies who are coming

into the Linux space. These companies are moving people off projects where they

have been developing proprietary stuff. They don't understand the way that Linux people do things.

Long held as a mainstay of shared file systems, AFS, an enterprise file system,

was released to the Open Source community by IBM.

Nautilus will be released under the GNU General Public License, which means it will be free. Which raises one little question: How will Eazel turn a profit?

Red Hat reported revenue of $18.5 million for the second quarter ended August 31, 2000, a 76% increase over revenue of $10.5 million for the second quarter last year.

A gaping hole has been discovered in the GNU General Public License, the legal document at the heart of open source, and Sun has driven a Mack truck named Solaris x86 straight through it.

Visually impaired Linux users can expect their very own seeing-eye penguin, courtesy of Project Ocularis, a Linux distribution that allows sight-free operation.

A gaping hole has been discovered in the GNU General Public License, the legal document at the heart of open source, and Sun has driven a Mack truck named Solaris x86 straight through it.

Intel's investment in MontaVista Software will help advance Linux technology and products for embedded computing devices that use the XScale chip.

It may take time, but Linux's reputation and qualities could lead to further initiatives backing the OS. This would generate enough free publicity to enable Linux to continue it's rise to widespread acceptance.