XFree86 4.0.1 offers a mass of improvements and bug fixes along with a lot of cleaning of the code in XFree86.

By moving to Linux-based server infrastructures and free software applications, firms can guarantee they’ll never again be victimized by technology lock-in, because the GPL raises the costs of lock-in tactics to the point at which they’re useless to even the most cynical vendors.

One of Linux's strongest suits is as an "interoperability agent" that can allow a company to support multiple platforms, such as Windows, Unix systems, NetWare, and Apple Macintoshes painlessly from one central server.

This article is the first in a series of two, where the reader will be introduced to the Journal File Systems: JFS, XFS, Ext3, and ReiserFs.

Inprise's forthcoming Delphi for Linux development tool will have cross-platform capabilities that will enable Visual Basic trained developers to create applications in the Windows environment for Linux operating systems.

Dell, Gateway, Intel, and Compaq - industry powerhouses that once courted Microsoft and its Windows operating system - are turning toward Linux in a flirtation that has escalated into a full-fledged affair.

We're helping companies build content solutions, commerce solutions, operations solutions-and Linux is a standard that we can use to help integrate all of these. It makes it much easier to move application components around.

I believe in Open Source, but the promise of "better software" isn't materializing, despite all the noise to the contrary. The process won't do it; the developers have to do it. We need to be engineers first and artists second.

Neoware's textbook-sized embedded Linux desktop is a textbook example of where Linux is heading in the thin-client market. Small,power-saving, and functional.

Linux's most important distribution helps counter the growing commercial involvement in open source.