When Lotus placed their Sneak Preview (SPI) of Domino for Linux on Notes.Net in August of this year, I'm sure even they were surprised that 50,000 people chose to download it -- considering each download was a non-trivial 130MB.

This month, we start a new series of articles on Linux internals. We will travel the innards of the Linux kernels of the 2.0.x, 2.2.x, and the new 2.4.x series.

The business of Linux can best be described with one word: BOOM! It's no normal boom, mind you. It's a thundering boom, the kind that's shaking windows from Wall Street to Redmond.

If you can't beat them, buy them. That's the motto of some groups inside SCO and Sun Microsystems, which are exploring the possibility of buying a Linux vendor, say highly placed sources at Caldera Systems, SCO, Sun and TurboLinux.

Rumors swirled that North Carolina-based Linux firm Red Hat Inc. is looking at Corel as a possible acquisition target.

The IRIS Performer team at SGI is very pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of IRIS Performer 2.3 for Linux.

As part of an aggressive strategy to lock horns with Microsoft Corp., Red Hat Inc. is about to ramp up its campaign of acquisitions, partnerships and open-source community activism. Two early targets: the Mozilla browser project and Sendmail Inc.

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