A recent conference in India offered examples of how FLOSS affects everything from education and health services to internal software markets.

Local authorities in Newham and Nottingham are expected to migrate more than 10,000 desktop computers from Windows to Linux.

Intel has found that a 32-processor Itanium server running Linux is rivaling Windows and Unix servers in database performance, a major accomplishment for the comparatively young operating system.

SCO Group on Thursday discovered a clause in a contract that could bolster its potential legal claims against Linux users.

Merrill Lynch research shows that deploying Linux internally that could save the company millions of dollars, an executive at the investment banker said.

The Linux community seems to be taking very lightly the recent events surrounding the SCO-versus-IBM lawsuit and SCO's claim that Linux relies on Unix in unfair ways. One writer calls the situation a farce, while another thinks it's laughable and stupid. Linus Torvalds has reportedly said it is not much different than a Jerry Springer Show—mere entertainment. The Linux community seems to have put its collective head in the sand. Nobody seems to realize that Linux and the entire open-source movement are at grave risk.

Last week Indian President Dr Abdul Kalam called for a halt to the "devastating" impact of proprietary software. He revealed that he had what he called "differences" with the Microsoft founder when the two met last November.

Installation of CVS and CVSUP

Installing CVS on Redhat Linux 7.1/7.2/7.3

The following steps give simple steps to install CVS software on Redhat Linux 7.1/7.2/7.3

1) Download the tarball cvs-1.11.1p1.tar.gz from http://www.cvshome.com

2) Run “gunzip cvs-1.11.1p1.tar”. You will get file called

cvs-1.11.1p1.tar.

3) Then extract this file using command

“tar –xvf cvs-1.11.1p1.tar”.

4) Then go to directory cvs-1.11.1p1.

5) There you will find a file called INSTALL. Read it once carefully.

An IT consultant says Linux was the wrong choice for one of his clients -- one who ended up getting done in by a remote programmer with too big a fingerprint on a custom application.

Free software support is usually an e-mail or a mailing list away for the open-source community. Linux users don\'t need to play phone tag with help desks, just tap into the bevy of resources available online. Usually, users said, an answer is no more than a day away.