The way to conquer the desktop is not only to provide a good alternative on the Linux side, but to place that same alternative on the Windows side.

If there weren't enough reasons to use Linux in the enterprise these days, Linux has now firmly established itself in the rarefied air at the top of the computing world in bleeding-edge supercomputers.

Intel will release a new software developer kit that could allow vendors to offer Linux-based Internet appliances and home networking products based on Universal Plug and Play. UPnP enables devices to automatically identify and configure themselves when they are connected to a network.

The Linux operating system has helped scientists in Cambridge to decode the 34 million chemical 'letters' that constitute a human chomosome.

IBM's LVMS adds significantly more complexity between the filesystem and the physical devices, and results in an environment that is difficult to understand and harder to precisely control.

IBM said it has developed a breakthrough technology that allows its computers to run e-business software written for the free Linux operating system, without actually using the system.

Linux community organises against software legislation they say will damage Europe.

Red Hat announced that the Medical Center of Boston International will leverage Red Hat Linux as the operating system backbone for the first Internet-based global telemedicine infrastructure on Linux.

IBM will release the Logical Volume Management System to the Linux community. The system completely integrates all disk and volume management into a single, highly extensible, easy to use entity.

One of the biggest drawbacks for wide acceptance of Linux, according to industry watchers, is that it does not have applications like Microsoft Word. But do the vast majority of users need it?