The beta version of Linux-Mandrake 7.0 is available for download.

There are many who will say that Linux is not sufficiently friendly to be installed on your parents' computer. So how would you feel about putting it on their telephone? That is exactly what the Italian firm Sorgenti has done - created a Linux-powered telephone.

PHP is now running over a million web sites and with good reason. PHP is open source, it runs equally well on NT and UNIX, it's well documented. PHP is no doubt stealing market share from Microsoft's Active Server Pages, but the media has been unusually quiet about the issue.

Open source became a brand and a revolution this year-and Linux was its poster child. For companies in need of inexpensive and highly customizable software to build an online presence, the operating system provided the comfort of full source code with a price tag that was easy to swallow.

The site offers an easy way to search for Linux resources. The site consists of many

informative and useful web sites created by Linux enthusiasts. Linux users can add

their own Linux related web sites to the directory.

Linux and BeOS are both getting close to 10 years old, but they have very different histories and are quite different products. The one thing they have in common is they are both alternative operating systems. Rather than looking at them as competitors, let's explore how they can work together to satisfy the needs of a greater audience.

The site is a technical support and help site for Linux users. It features support and discussion forums where users can post questions in categorized forums.

In recent months, as Linux has suddenly appeared in the commercial computing world's rear-view mirror (warning: Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear), many journalists have been forwarding the idea that Linux will inevitably fragment as Unix in general has done in years past, to the detriment of anyone foolish to leave the Microsoft fold and adopt it.

The explosion of Linux onto the personal computer marketplace has everyone in the computer community all abuzz. It seems like there are new implementations every month that repackage Linux under still another brand/distribution.

As Linux has gained in popularity, the number of commercial (and free) applications have risen dramatically. A growing number of these applications were not born on Linux but rather on some other, lesser known operating systems.