VA Linux Systems (Nasdaq: LNUX) has joined a number of prosperous companies that are pumping up developer resources for the Linux community by announcing a new service to help accelerate the development of Linux applications.

Linux distributer SuSe is developing a high availability version of Linux that uses the FaleSafe technology that Silicon Graphics (SGI) has given to the open source community. Dirk Hohndel, chief technology officer at Suse would be offering a Linux version of FailSafe to make Linux better suited to high-end applications.

Linux is ready to fulfil the requirements of most desktop users, according to the chief technical officer of SuSE Linux and founder member of the XFree86 organisation, Dirk Hondel.

The Linux OS is emerging as a viable alternative to “closed-system” security solutions.

The articles in the 'Portable World' series generated an enormous response from the community; so much, in fact, that I decided to write another series of articles based on reader suggestions. Today's piece covers 'tried and true' laptops sent in by our readers.

Founded by members of the original Macintosh team, Palo Alto, Calif.-based Eazel is working with the open-source Gnome project to build a mainstream desktop for Linux. Eazel will sell online utilities and link to them from the desktop. The Industry Standard asked Eazel CEO Mike Boich ...

A look into the availability of device drivers and specs for Linux. The tangled needs of developers, manufacturers, and the Linux-curious have kept down the tempo of driver development.

One of the common concerns about Linux is the lack of desktop applications. Certainly this concern has some validity. We are first and foremost a community of developers, and we tend to produce the tools that developers need. We have Emacs, but not Word. We have Gdb, but not Excel. But open source, like nature itself, abhors a vacuum, and missing application areas are being filled.

Merlin Software Technologies, a leading developer of Linux based software applications and utilities, today announced continued aggressive expansion of their global distribution network with the signing of an agreement with India's largest Linux distributor, G.T. Enterprises.

Motorola said it will come out in May with Linux servers for telecommunications that will be guaranteed to stay up 99.999 percent of the time--all but five minutes of the year. This level of availability is possible because CPUs, fans, power supplies and cards will be plugged into PCI slots. Computer center managers, therefore, will be able to remove and add them without having to shut the computer down, Motorola said.