Red Hat Linux 6.0 is/was built and installed using RPM version 3.0. While continuing to remain compatible with pre-existing binary packages, reorganization of the internals in RPM 3.0 permits more reliable package installation.

The Linux community as a whole has ignored one major aspect of making Linux more popular, and that is getting it into schools and letting students work with it.

Jon Lasser began the Bastille Linux Project in order to harden the security of Red Hat Linux, the distribution he uses at work.

We at freshmeat regularly receive submissions of Windows software for inclusion in the appindex. Sometimes it's something that obviously doesn't belong here, like a commercially-licensed closed-sourced word processor.

An NRI from Bangalore has developed India's first commercial supercomputer based on the Linux operating system. It costs just a fraction of what a conventional Cray does but works nearly as fast.

Corel Corp. shares jumped almost 33 per cent yesterday after the software maker said it plans to release a Linux operating system later this year that can run some Windows applications.

Linux and other "free" operating systems will more than double their market share to 9% of corporate PCs over the next two years, a new survey from Survey.com predicts.

The surprise from Inprise: a free Java development environment for Linux.

The package has a debugger, a static analyzer, an application wrapper, and a byte compiler.

Rumours that China will adopt Linux as its primary operating system in order to free itself ideologically from dependence on an American company are abounding.