After nine years of running on every possible junkyard configuration of machine and microprocessor, Linux, the little operating system that could, finally made it to the top of the computing mountain this week.

SGI this week launched its first Linux workstations, following rival supplier Hewlett-Packard into the low-cost workstation market.

A 32-processor Linux computer cluster is set to crank out computations in the National Foundation for Functional Brain Imaging's (NFFBI) Albuquerque, N.M. facility.

Linux's march from one man's bedroom to boardrooms around the world was bolstered this week by both popular and corporate support at Toronto's Linux Canada conference.

Red Hat this week released alpha source code to enable software developers to build applications for Intel's IA-64 architecture based on Red Hat's Linux distribution.

There are those who say that Linux has a bigger future in embedded systems than on the desktop. So it's good to know that a few entrenched players in the embedded market seem willing to play nice.

For the most part, end users don't support the government's plan to split up Microsoft Corp. into two companies, according to an exclusive Computerworld poll of IT professionals.

Open source leader and CTO of Linuxcare speaks out about business the open source way.

On May 18, 1999, Linux.com opened its virtual doors to the Linux community. Since then, the Linux world has seen an incredible number of developments -- a testament to the fact that everyone's favourite OS runs on "Internet time," or possibly even faster. Let's take a look at what has happened since the site's creation on this day in 1999.

If you remember my first impressions of Rebel.com's Netwinder, you might recall that although I was impressed with the diminutive unit, the setup utilities were less than optimal. My major complaint, at the time, was that they were decidedly Microsoft-centric, and unless you attached a monitor, mouse and a keyboard to the unit, you really had to have a windows box on your LAN to get the Netwinder installed.