After four years of development Linux lovers everywhere will soon have their own PDA in the form of the iPaq H3600. And what's more, the Linux handheld can show up the rest of the market's competitors.

Intel will enter the increasingly crowded field for Internet appliances with the Dot.Station, a countertop terminal powered by Red Hat Linux that lets people surf the Web, exchange emails and make phone calls.

In his working class hometown of Grandview, Ellis has been using Linux to put together a network for a neighborhood school. Because of the expense involved with Windows and the slow computers he had to work with, he found Linux to be a great alternative.

Immunix OS 6.2 is based on Red Hat 6.2, but with all C source-available programs re-compiled with the StackGuard compiler. The result is a system that is fundamentally compatible with Red Hat Linux, but is secured against a majority of all Internet security attacks.

Despite a few rough edges, a growing number of companies are adopting streaming media, and starting to look at running it on Linux.

A large part of the Linux development community is working to ensure that Linux is ready for the next generation of superfast hardware platforms.

Linux is showing signs of becoming a viable high-end computing platform that combines mainframe-quality performance with a breadth of application support and net-friendliness that no conventional legacy platform can match.

Yes, linux is forking, but not in the presumed direction. Linux has been acting like a unifying force for almost two years now, and the GNU project for even longer.

IBM's strategy for using Linux can be summed up in two sentences: Today, the server. Tomorrow, the world.

I was a Ph.D student at the University of Warwick, and I heard about Linux through Usenet around the time of its inception. I immediately subscribed to alt.os.linux so I could read more.