Canadian software maker Corel Corp. , chip maker Intel Corp., and unnamed hardware manufacturers are collaborating on a line of cheap personal computers that would run on the Linux operating system, unconfirmed reports in a Toronto newspaper said.

With dramatic flair, many hailed 1999 as the Year of Linux. Concern about Microsoft's business practices and release dates reached an all-time high, and according to preliminary data from IDC, Linux was responsible for 25 per cent of all new server installs. But it's clear that the story of Linux is only just beginning. The question of what the operating system will be when it grows up is still very unclear.

Inprise Corporation announced a public field test of InterBase 6.0 for the Linux operating system now available as a download from the InterBase web site.

Corel Corporation announced it will offer a free download of Corel PHOTO-PAINT 9 for Linux. The download version of Corel PHOTO-PAINT 9 for Linux, Corel's photo-editing, image composition and painting application, will be available in early summer.

This paper establishes a context for the work of Eric Raymond and his description of the Linux phenomenon, by examining the emerging science of complex adaptive systems pioneered by John Holland, Christopher Langton, Robert Axelrod, among others.

News of an IBM Linux port to the 390 began to emerge last year, as a rumour, following a posting to the Linux Kernel list which enquired about DMA buffers and address space. The rumour was confirmed in December when IBM published its modifications and additions to the Linux 2.2.13 code base for the support of the S/390 architecture.

Support of the Linux operating system is one of the critical issues that face many organizations that consider deploying Linux in their corporate environments. Support of an operating system typically, over time, turns out to be the most significant cost over the life of the system. However, Linux offers many features that help to reduce this cost. Linux, having been derived from Unix, shares many of the administration tools and utilities that traditional Unix systems have offered for years. Some of these tools can be used to help maintain the Linux kernel itself in the ways illustrated here.

Change is a great way to polarize any community. It should come as no great surprise that when Inprise announced plans to develop RAD tools for the Linux platform, the responses from the Borland developer community were stereo cries of "Oh Yes!" and "Oh No!" - with a background channel of "uh, what?".

Responding to the rising tide of interest in using the Linux operating system in embedded applications, representatives from dozens of embedded technology firms announced formation of the Embedded Linux Consortium, or ELC, a vendor-neutral trade association dedicated to the advancement of Linux-based solutions in embedded applications.

Chili!Soft Inc., the market leader in platform-independent Active Server Pages (ASP), today announced the general availability of Chili!Soft Active Server Pages for Linux. With Chili!Soft Active Server Pages for Linux, users of leading Web development tools, can easily build and maintain dynamic Web applications, using Active Server Pages for live database connectivity and dynamic content, that leverage the rapidly-growing installed base of Linux servers.