This paper examines the performance of the Linux kernel when the system is running a Java program using the IBM Developer Kit for Linux, Java Technology Edition, Version 1.1.8. The Java program is the VolanoMark benchmark, a communication-intensive benchmark that creates a large number of Java threads.

E-security vendor Axent Technologies unveiled a partnership with Cobalt Networks under which the companies will produce a Linux firewall and virtual private network appliance for small to midsize companies, branch offices, and service providers.

ZDNet recently conducted a survey of its Linux Website and I began to wonder if ZDNet could really become a Linux portal for mainstream businesses. My conclusion was that if they bought a few clues and had at least one ball it could happen. Of course to many in the Linux community ZDnet is viewed as the drooling pitbull of Microsoft.

Last Wednesday, as the lightbulbs cooled and the camera ops commenced packing their equipment down in Saratoga, Calif. -- site of Transmeta Corp.'s media-saturated Crusoe chip unveiling -- marketing executives at Salt Lake City-based Lineo Inc. quietly stepped up to the plate and delivered their own blow for the Linux-enabled post-PC marketplace.

Everyone seems to know that Linux is hot these days with all the IPOs and Linus Torvalds-mania. But it was not until I immersed myself in the subject over the past few weeks in preparation for a speaking engagement that I realized how much is really going on with Linux these days.

Computer Associates International Inc. and Red Hat Inc. joined to announce a set of systems management products and services for Red Hat Linux.

Corel is working to patch a bug with its version of Linux that could let unauthorized users gain access to machines running Corel Linux. A program called Corel Update has a problem that lets ordinary users take actions ordinarily only reserved for system administrators.

Number one in the online vitamin retail space, Vitamins.com has further distinguished itself in the competitive Internet health industry race by being one of the first to integrate the Linux Operating System, produced by Red Hat, the leading developer and provider of open source software solutions.

IBM's e-business guru Irving Wladawsky-Berger views Linux naysayers in the same light as he once did those who doubted the business potential of the Internet: with a healthy degree of skepticism.

SGI announced it has released source code for its OpenGL Sample Implementation to the open source community. The Sample Implementation is used today by most major 3D graphics hardware vendors as the basis for high-performance 3D graphics acceleration.