The Korea Research and Development Information Center (KORDIC), a nonprofit research institute, announced an alliance to build a supercomputer using Linux operating system. Joining the efforts are Samsung Electronics, Samsung Corp. and Linux solution developer Zion Linux Systems.

Out of almost 850,000 web sites that run Linux and provide a personalised server header RedHat dominates with a 72% share. Its nearest rival is SuSE with 10%, followed by Debian with 9%.

Larry Augustin isn't worries about the recent tech stock turmoil. 'It's great that people are focusing more on fundamentals of companies.'

Not only is GNOME 1.2 available right now in source and binary formats, but a new GNOME.org site is also online.

IBM on Wednesday unwrapped two servers -- a 64-way NUMA-Q server and an entry-level Netfinity system -- aimed at smaller companies looking to host budding e-businesses. Company officials also announced their intent to deliver a version of Linux optimized for NUMA servers.

It's not moonshine, but Linux that's fueling a University of Kentucky parallel supercomputer whose creators claim it has demonstrated performance exceeding 1 billion floating point operations per second (GFLOPS) for every $650 spent on building the machine.

Running Linux and Windows throught the AltaVista search engine returned some interesting results.

You'd think money wouldn't come into it with Linux. After all you don't pay to use the system. But a lot of money has been riding on the exploitation of Linux.

The J2EE platform, version 1.2.1 with the Linux port, is ready for developers and available for download. With the release of J2EE technology v. 1.2.1, enterprises of any size can get all these benefits -- based on a scalable, fully-featured set of technologies.

For the last six years, John "Maddog" Hall has been one of the strongest and most effective North American supporters of the Linux open-source operating system. "Maddog" also has more than 17 years experience with the Unix community, a personal history that seems to have primed him with the determination to see an open-source operating system done right.