The wired home of the future will have Web pads and all manner of networked appliances using Transmeta hardware and the Linux operating system.

Low-cost computers running Linux, from a company established earlier this year by Oracle, will go on sale to consumers soon.

NEC Solutions has become the first Japanese company to join the IA-64 Linux Project, an international association of computing companies that is developing the Linux operating system on Intel's IA-64 processors.

We see Windows plus IIS beat Linux plus Apache on identical but specially-set-up machines, whereas in daily life we see Linux, warts and all, hammer Windows into the ground performance-wise. How does the Linux community respond to such benchmarks?

Cybernet's NetMAX is going to give Microsoft's Windows NT and Novell's NetWare stiff competition in the single-server market. NetMAX provides the power of Linux in a tool that can create a GUI-based environment for multiple users in remarkably little time.

At the Networks Telecom show, Brooktrout announced that it is now supporting Linux across its complete range of network and Internet hardware products.

VA Linux has made an investment in MySQL and will work with MySQL on advanced support and service programs. VA Linux will also host MySQL as a project on SourceForge.net.

A trucking company has deployed diskless PCs across all desktop's. Seventeen simultaneous users are supported simultaneously with full GUI application functionality using a 233-MHz Pentium II server running Linux.

It had all the sources! It even had X11! It fit neatly into my new 386SX/25 laptop with 5MB of memory! It was close enough to UNIX for me to give in completely!

Like it or not, major hardware vendors and corporates don't want to support five or more flavors of Linux. As Red Hat and Caldera continue to gain critical mass, look for the rest of the Linux providers to lose ground.