In this two-part interview, Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation gives SearchEnterpriseLinux.com his opinion on the SCO-IBM suit, how it will impact GNU/Linux and enterprise adoption. He also talks about his avocation and what he believes are critical issues for the movement.

Getting Fortune 500 companies to adopt open source would be a lot easier if open-source advocates put their business hats on.

Gibraltar Software CTO Mark Allen shares some advice on developing a strategy for patching critical systems and applications.

A Giga Information Group analyst points out that the inclusion of Native POSIX Threading Libraries in the upcoming release of Red Hat Linux 9 parallels the inclusion of NPTL in the next Linux kernel.

A Sun Microsystems executive tries to diffuse speculation that Sun is hesitant about Linux. In this interview, Jack O\\\'Brien discusses Sun\\\'s stand on Linux and what factors will drive enterprise adoption into high gear.

In this article, industry experts comment on a recent IDC white paper which stated that the five-year total cost of ownership of Linux was higher than that of Windows 2000. According to some, the TCO issue is less important to most enterprises than the issue of return on investment -- and Linux versus Unix may be a more compelling contest than Linux versus Windows.

IndLinux.org announced the launch of IndLinux Milan v0.37, a Hindi interface to Gnome, the graphical user interface (GUI) of the GNU/Linux operating system. The software is available as a free download from the Web site www.indlinux.org.

With IndLinux Milan v0.37 installed, those who can read and write Hindi can now use computers in their own language.

Sure there are cost and maintenance savings in opting for Linux on the desktop over Windows, but administrators still have to contend with some setbacks. Application availability, or compatibility, is an issue as is training and potential downtime that accompanies a migration.

In this guest column at DesktopLinux.com, former SCO evangelist and Samba.org team leader John H. Terpstra weighs in on market perceptions about Linux and its suitability for the desktop.

This is a bug database developed specifically for tracking bugs in the Linux kernel. It allows users to submit bug reports, which can be linked to confirmed bugs, and to find bugs by uploading your .config file.