Kurt Granroth is living his dream job working for SuSE on any productive aspect of KDE development that tickles his fancy.

A Linux user since the days of the 0.11 kernel, Wiegand seems to have a jump start on the lessons of the next century.

Many of the industry's stronger players now feel confident enough to defy Microsoft and include Linux in their strategic plans.

The Santa Cruz Operation says it's likely to announce its plans for a Linux distribution this week. Really, and no kidding this time.

Jon "Maddog" Hall believes that even though applications that are equal in functionality to Office and Quicken have been ported to Linux, users of these applications are loyal to them and prefer to stay with them.

You may wonder why someone would run Linux on a SPARC rather than on an Intel-based machine that would have a larger selection of binary-compatible software. The simple answer is that many companies already have the hardware.

Behind the scenes, Big Blue is promoting new education, certification and business relationships that could grow the market for certified Linux professionals.

TCS and Dell are making a commitment not only to help each other develop and support the latest Linux technologies, but also to provide those technologies to the open source community.

Slackware Linux 7.1 is out of beta and on the ftp site for you to grab.

Total domination for Linux would certainly make things easier, but the simple fact is that that won't happen with 90 percent of the desktops running Windows. Linux and Windows will have to work together for a while.