VMware, Inc., developer of software that enables a single computer to run multiple operating systems simultaneously, announced that it has been selected as an Info World Magazine analyst pick for 1999 Product of the Year.

Unix Aficionados have for years chronicled vendors' attempts to push Unix onto the desktop. We've watched all such attempts end in abject failure and total market rejection, mostly because Unix vendors were clueless to the needs of desktop users -- until now.

IBM is refocusing its corporate-wide Internet software efforts around Linux, a move it hopes will legitimize the open-source movement for large corporations while reviving its own flagging enterprise server business.

Damian Ivereigh has been running Cisco's printing system worldwide using Linux for about four years. He runs all of Cisco's print operations from Sydney, Australia, and started using Linux because he had used it at home and decided it was a good bet for the company.

If you maintain a UNIXish system of any sort, you will invariably have to add and/or delete user accounts, even if you have a home system. In extremely large organizations, you may employ tools such as NIS+ for network based user management, however, in smaller scale systems, accounts are most likely controlled at each system.

The average Learning Logic Lab consists of a single Linux server. Students work on X terminals running in 1024x768 mode connected to the server via a 10- or 100-base twisted-pair network. A PostScript-capable printer automatically prints student homework and tests.

These alternatives to KDE and GNOME prove that the Linux desktop arena is anything but small. The author looks at more obscure alternative desktops for Linux, including CTWM, IceWM, LWM, Scwm, Sawmill, and TkDesk.

From a phone conversation with Miles Barel, IBM's program director for Unix marketing. Several months after the first stories surfaced that Sun was planning to 'open up' Solaris 8, the details were finally announced this past Wednesday. Those details began leaking a week earlier, so reaction to Sun's move has been coming in steadily over the past week.

The challenges specific to Linux's underpinnings make it a natural candidate for third-party services. The flexibility Linux offers as an open-source environment can also make it hard for companies to get their arms around development projects.

Slashdot asked Jim Hall a bunch of questions Monday. Today they get answers about the reason for and future of FreeDOS, along with a sprinkling of advice for FreeDOS users and developers.