A year ago this Mother's Day weekend, I converted my mom, a 67 year old mother of 3, and grandmother of 4, to Linux. With regards to computers, she barely knew a right-click from a left-click, and didn't deal well with navigating menus, or changing settings of any kind.A year ago this Mother's Day weekend, I converted my mom, a 67 year old mother of 3, and grandmother of 4, to Linux. With regards to computers, she barely knew a right-click from a left-click, and didn't deal well with navigating menus, or changing settings of any kind.

An IT manager describes his step-by-step process for finding free Linux or open-source software support.

outhEast Asia - I would like to talk about Microsoft's double standard regarding software piracy. I work for a software development company. We are currently working on different projects for a big telecommunications company under Microsoft's Consulting Services division. But let me tell you... at this very moment, if the BSA comes crashing into our development location, all our equipment will be confiscated, and we will be fined for our use of pirated Microsoft products (Windows 2000 AS, Visual Studio 6.0, Visual Studio .NET, SQL Server 2000, BizTalk 2000, etc.).

IBM is shedding light on a program to create the world's fastest supercomputer, illuminating a dual-pronged strategy, an unusual new processor design and a leaning toward the Linux operating system.

In an e-mail discussion, MozillaQuest asked Linus Torvalds to comment on the Linux-related allegations SCO-Caldera makes in its Complaint against IBM. Here is Linus Torvalds' uncensored commentary.

To begin testing the distribution, download the latest Knoppix image

and burn it to a CD-ROM. There are several mirrors on the

href=http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html>Knoppix Web site

from where you can get the latest image in the form of an ISO file, or

purchase a CD-ROM. If you choose to download, get the latest version;

Knoppix has a release almost every week. A suffix of EN at the end of

the file name specifies that is the English version.

The command to burn a CD out of the ISO under Linux is:

Business software maker PeopleSoft is jumping on the Linux bandwagon and calling on IBM for a hand up.[]

The up to now highly anticipated Red Hat Linux 9 is finally released. OSNews had its hands to the final version of Red Hat Linux 9 for over 3 weeks now and we were able to evaluate it in a number of ways. The final version is not too different than the Phoebe-3 beta for which we wrote a preview recently.

Opera Software has released Opera 7.10 for Windows and Opera 7.10 for Linux Beta with features that are not only new to Opera, but also completely new to the world of browsing. Right from the beginning, users can see the two new buttons FastForward and Rewind in the toolbar, accelerating Opera users\' Web navigation. Users can also speed up researching with the completely new Notes features or view photo files with SlideShow.

GNOME stands for GNU Network Object Model Environment... so where did all the distributed-network objects go? KDE is delivering a better version of what GNOME\'s goal has apparently morphed into: becoming a great component framework that you can write to in multiple languages. Nicholas Petreley rebuffs the common GNOME battle slogans and explains why the window-manager\'s name needs reworking.