Yes you can come here. This is a welcome place for you. We're going to take care of you, we're going to support you, we're going to make products that work with Linux and we're going to do our best to be the best Linux hardware provider there is.

Advanced Micro Devices is putting money and energy into recruiting Linux developers to write software for Hammer, the company's 64-bit processor that will first appear in late 2001.

TurboLinux and SGI announced an agreement to incorporate SGI's breakthrough SGI

Pro64 compiler technology into TurboLinux's forthcoming commercial release of TurboLinux for IA-64, for substantially increased IA-64 performance on Linux.

HP expanded its commitment to Linux as a strategic operating system, unveiling a number of products and services as part of its multi-OS strategy for HP-UX(1),

64-bit Windows(R) 2000 and Linux.

The new Debian now supports two additional architectures: PowerPC and Arm. Improvements have been made to the installtion.

Red Hat bought privately-held C2Net Software Inc. for about $42 million in stock. Commanding more than 30 percent of the Web server market C2Net's Stronghold server was a preferred choice for Red Hat to bolster their line of secure product

offerings.

VA plans to announce that it will offer software on a build-to-order model when

it sells its computer systems that are optimized to run Linux.

Dell is expected to demo an Intel Itanium-based server running Linux at the LinuxWorld Expo.

Red Flag Software is making expansion plans and aims to take its mainland China

developed Red Flag Linux software to the international market.

Linux is expected to receive another major boost this week when several key hardware vendors step up their support for the open-source operating system at the LinuxWorld conference in San Jose.