Linux distributor Red Hat plans to open an Asia Pacific headquarters and make major inroads into the region's consumer market in the New Year.

J.D., or as he's more commonly known, 'Illiad,' is the artist and writer of a daily comic strip called 'User Friendly,' which chronicles the lives and employees at Columbia Internet, a fictitious Internet Service Provider in Canada.

What a year. We went into 1999 expecting Linux to do incredible things, and were still amazed. Linux is truly on a roll. In the same spirit as our popular 1998 Linux Timeline, here is our attempt to summarize what has happened in the Linux world over the last year.

Merging e-commerce, open-source software, and Linux may be one of the shrewdest moves of this year and next, as these are the three areas currently monopolizing the attention of venture capitalists, stock-market investors, and the general computing public.

While government regulators are hoping to break up his mighty empire and expecting that a judge will rule in their favour in an anti-trust case against Microsoft, a bunch of new software giants has suddenly emerged to challenge his monopoly in computer operating systems.

The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company has retained a Linux consultancy to ensure the increasingly popular software runs on its advanced, 64-bit PA-RISC chips by the first half of next year, according to HP executives.

Network Associates, Inc. announced the industry's first solution to enable third party developers and service providers to easily embed the market-leading McAfee VirusScan engine into Linux-based e-business applications, Internet appliances, and managed service offerings.

By all accounts, it would be unfair to compare any office product to Microsoft Office 2000. Microsoft Office has a long line of products - and it has established itself as an industry leader. But there is a slight problem: like most other Microsoft products it is available for only the Macintosh and Windows platforms.

Ok, you got your self an Internal ISDN card and you wish it to work under linux... I must tell you this will be a nice journey, it can be long also but the buttom line - It is working!.

Combining its collaborative functionality with Linux' low cost of deployment, Lotus is now shipping Domino R5 for Linux.