IBM recently released seven voice recognition products, one of which loans its voice to the Linux operating system.

She uses off-the-shelf commodity hardware running virtually any Linux distribution. She targets enterprise computing environments and she's just been released under the GNU General Public License.

The remedies placed on Microsoft could be bad news for players in the Linux market. Both desktop and personal productivity players as well as Linux hardware startups could face more competition.

Red Hat will help Intel develop a "cookbook" of pre-packaged Internet server application recipes optimized for Intel's OEMs. Red Hat will be the first Linux solutions provider to do so.

Iomega has signed a development support agreement with Red Hat to develop Linux support for Iomega drives in future versions of the company's IomegaWare software.

ZipSpeak is a talking mini-distribution of Linux for blind and visually impaired people, based on the ZipSlack distribution and the Speakup screen reader.

As a system administrator does it make sense to add Linux to your resume?

Inprise says that it will add cross-platform capabilities to the Linux versions of Delphi and C++ Builder. The tools, code-named Kylix, are in beta and scheduled for release by the end of the year.

Before summer's end, a long-awaited court test of the GNU General Public License may be filed.

Linux might well be a dark horse ready to race against Palm, Microsoft and others for mobile devices. The open source OS has quietly won over some very big backers in the handheld arena, including IBM and Intel.