Adding thin-client computing to its growing list of open-source technologies, IBM introduced at LinuxWorld, a NetVista N2200L thin client for Linux and a software package for the client/server system.

Dell's chairman managed to walk a tightrope, keeping LinuxWorld conventioneers happy, without taking any potshots at good buddy Bill Gates.

IBM announced a series of prepackaged Linux cluster offerings that it claimed will allow users to tie up to 64, two-processor Intel servers into one massive Linux cluster.

LinuxPPC, provider of the most popular Linux distribution for us in the PowerPC computers, has sworn to radically improve its customer service. Specifically sales, technical support, and general handling of user problems will all be improved.

Michael Cowpland, the flamboyant founder of Corel , said he was leaving the helm of the struggling software developer to devote time to start-ups offering the revolutionary Linux program.

TurboLinux announced that it has partnered with HP to bundle the TurboLinux operating system on the HP Kayak PC Workstation family designed for advanced design applications, high-performance 3D graphics and dual processing for optimized multitasking.

Red Hat got a boost from news it has entered deals with Motorola and IBM. Financial details of neither deal were released.

US-based Agenda Computing today launched a scheme to take on handheld computing

giants Palm and Handspring with the introduction of a consumer-oriented palmtop

device based on Linux.

After a year of debating the business case for Linux, followers of the open source operating system will get a look at some real products this week.

This research report reviews recent acquisition activity and speculates about the ten companies which are most likely to be acquired by a larger company or proceed with their own IPO in the next year.