The company, flush with funds from its record-setting IPO, has launched an ambitious plan to become one of the leading providers of servers to the Internet, said CEO Larry Augustin in an interview with News.com. Intel's upcoming Itanium processor and improvements to the Linux OS will be the first steps in the company's expansion, and plans for Europe and Asia will follow.

This article explains the details of referring to multiple files on the command line using wildcards -- particularly the places where the UNIX wildcards differ from the simpler wildcards used by DOS and Windows.

This is release 20000109 of Wine (WINdows Emulator), a free implementation of Windows on Unix. This is still a developers only release.

I express in this text my personal opinion on the danger I think could arise if the famous company from Redmond wins the streaming war against RealNetworks as it won the browser war against Netscape. The fact that I didn't read anything on that subject yet makes me wonder if I'm completely wrong.

Using your Linux box to share a single internet connection is one of the most popular ways to use an old beat up 486 or Pentium machine that otherwise would have been thrown into the junk pile in the garage. When used in conjunction with a fast Ethernet connection like cable, or DSL.

Most of you are probably saying: "SPIRO Linux? I have never heard of it". Well, you probably will soon. SPIRO Linux is based on Red Hat 6.x.

Linux, which has quietly been gaining ground in the commercial and government sectors for the past few years, appears poised to become the government's operating system of choice for mission-critical applications.

The stake Intel took in special-purpose computer maker eSoft was worth $3 million, the companies disclosed today. The investment is one of several Intel has made in companies using the open-source Linux software. Intel also has invested in Red Hat, SuSE, TurboLinux and VA Linux Systems.

A Linux software company is hoping a $3 million investment will help it gain a foothold in the spicy but increasingly crowded server appliance market. SoundView Technology Group has placed an investment in Realm Information Technology, which until now has been running off $5 million in private funding that got the company started in 1996. The new funding will be used to expand Realm's software and West Coast operations.

If you were starting up today, or could start over as an ISP, would you use Unix, Linux or NT servers, and why? Which RAS servers have the fewest 'issues' with user modems and require the least customer support?