There will be all sorts of important stories in the new year -- the Microsoft antitrust case, the growth of Linux, the acceleration of wireless and PDA technology, the ongoing e-commerce boom and many others.

There was no five minute outage, not even a five microsecond outage at 00:00 UTC on January 1, 2000. The Linux Today servers have been up and working flawlessly for 150 days to date and were last down for a hardware upgrade in early August.

 Every year we hear of something new that is going to spell the death of Microsoft. In 1996 it was the internet, in 1997 it was Java that would put an end to Bill Gates. In 1998 it was the infamous US$500 Network Computers (NCs) pushed strong by Oracle and Sun to end the "WinTel" (Microsoft and Intel) dominance. Now it's Linux (I predict that Cell Phones and the Palm Pilot will be next year’s items).

There exists a lot of confusion about the ideals of Linux, open-source, and the Free Software Foundation (FSF).

Contrary to popular belief, all Linux users are not migrants from the Windows camp. Some of us have come from other platforms such as AmigaOS or MacOS. For users like myself who have converted from another "alternative OS" we expect more than what the Windows platform can offer.

Internet.com announced the addition of the Linux/Open Source channel, which integrates internet.com's LinuxToday.com, LinuxCentral.com, LinuxPlanet.com and the recently acquired LinuxStart.com Web sites.

Linux is the low-cost, high-powered Internet serving environment that is being adopted by many companies as their server room operating system, and that's all its good for.

Security is never a luxury. It can save money, time, and frustration. The Linux operating system, a UNIX clone created in 1991, has several built-in security mechanisms, which are unfortunately rarely used. This article explores the basic aspects of securing a Linux server.

I am running a computer routing lab that is used to teach routing fundamentals on proprietary equipment. It consists of an 18 seat lab with 9 PCs, 1 server and 1 HP LaserJet 4050N with a HP Jetdirect  print server card installed. The server is running Slackware 4.0 with Linux 2.2.6 on it. Eight of the PCs are running WinNT 4.0 SP5 and one PC is running Win95a.

:This article is a basic introduction to the new web markup language XML and the transformation language XSL. Here I show how the Apache web server can be configured using the servlet engine JServ, to do client side XML/XSL transformation using Apache's Cocoon servlet.