A new version of the Linux interface, GNOME, promises to make the chore of keeping the operating system tidy and up-to-date less complicated. Miguel de Icaza's HelixCode on Monday released a beta version of the Helix GNOME desktop which includes ease-of-use features such as an automatic installer and software updater.

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Currently, a dearth of applications, combined with scalability issues and the lack of trust among companies in Linux as a platform for business applications, are hindering enterprise-scale Linux deployments.

More than half of Australia's corporate IT departments are making use of Linux, but serving remains the dominant role and few companies have any plans for Linux on the desktop, a new survey has found.

Vehicle manufacturer International Trucks has chosen to port its key business applications to the Linux platform in its branch offices throughout Australia and New Zealand.

A spokesperson for the Trillian Project, a cooperative development among Cygnus Solutions, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, SGI and VA Linux Systems, has said it will port Linux to the new IA64 processor architecture before its release. With key market players like Intel supporting Linux with its most powerful processor yet, the operating system may expand into new markets traditionally dominated by the likes of Microsoft and Sun Microsystems.

In an exclusive interview with Silicon.com, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, vice president of technlogy and strategy, enterprise systems group, IBM, said: "Monopolies were okay before, but we've seen the future, and it's not that. These hierarchical, proprietary companies are trying to kill each other in the market, and Linux offers an alternate vision of the world."

DragonLinux is a distribution of Linux based on a filesystem called UMSDOS. This allows it to reside on your DOS partition, thus removing the need to repartition your hard drive to install and use Linux.

I have a fairly complicated home network that uses many of the different features of Linux. While my network setup is probably more complicated than what you'll ever need in your home, you may find that you want to use some of the same features. In this article, I'll describe how my computers are physically connected, discuss how I want my network to work, and then explain how I used various aspects of Linux to accomplish those goals.

Since VisualWorks Non Commercial (VWNC) has been freely released for Linux, there's been an increased interest in the Linux community about Smalltalk. The purpose of this article is to give an introduction to Smalltalk for Linux enthusiasts who aren't familiar with it, and to share some of the characteristics of this language that endears itself to so many programmers.