At the risk of offending nearly every webhead and geek, it's time for a dose of reality: Linux may not be the competitor to Unix and Windows/2000 that it fancies itself. Why? Because Linux may not be able to support large, complex commercial Web servers as successfully as it does servers in smaller, less demanding Web environments.

Present at the interview were our fearless leaders, Linus 'Linux' Torvalds, and Alan 'Kernel Hacker' Cox, the number one and two men in the Linux hierarchy, and a freelance journalist with nothing to lose and everything to gain.

If you have just installed GNU/Linux and don't know quite what to do next, then this article is for you. Some fundamental UNIX concepts are explained in this paper.

Linux 2.2 was a major improvement over Linux 2.0 and the Linux 1.x series. It supported many new filesystems, a new system of file caching, and it was much more scalable. Linux 2.4 builds on these things and more to be the best darned Linux kernel yet in a variety of situations.

You find yourself in a situation where nothing but Linux will do but you wind up sitting in front of a workstation running that other OS. You'll want to access resources in ways where only Linux seems to provide the tools you need. Luckily, you've got Linux in your pocket, on a 3-1/2-inch floppy diskette, no less.

IBM’s S/390 is gaining ground with e-commerce customers, and Big Blue credits Linux with helping to breathe new life into the mainframe 'dinosaur.'

Based on the enthusiastic response from corporate customers the last two months, IBM deepened its commitment to Linux on Friday with the announcement of a pilot project to work with selected users and developers to create applications that exploit its S/390 mainframe.

Linux will play an increasingly important role in IBM, eventually displacing some or all of IBM's proprietary operating systems...

Every owner of a business—small, home, or otherwise—struggles with the same questions when thinking about updating their three to five year old computer systems: why, what, how and when to migrate. Depending on what you do, it’s very likely that the benefits of migrating to Linux far outweigh the costs and speed bumps incurred along the way.

This whitepaper, by LinuxDevices.com founder Rick Lehrbaum, contemplates the looming battle between Linux and Windows over which OS will become the platform of choice in thousands of new 'intelligent interconnected devices' to be designed during the next few years -- and offers ten reasons why Linux will win.