While perusing the web for ideas about what would make a good set of Linux classes, I come across a disturbing trend, one that was once only an insignificant bother, but hath now become enough of a problem to warrant attention: Linux Over-Zealotry.

This is a piece about how Microsoft's once-impregnable marketing image has taken a battering in recent times. It will cover what the implications of this are and why the Linux and Open Source communities can take much of the credit for the current circumstances and trends.

SCO and LinuxMall.com announced that next week they will host a central Linux forum called the Linux Community Hub at Linux Business Expo.

Oracle Corp. and Red Hat unveiled a new version of the Red Hat Linux OS which will be optimized to meet the increasing high availability, clustering and Java support demands of today's emerging e-businesses.

Objective Reality Computer has made their 3D UI open source under the GNU.

Linux Mandrake 6.1 is similar to Red Hat Linux, but it's easier to set up and use.

Let's get real. we all know there's a ton of Linux hype out there. A day does not go by without another vendor declaring Linux support. But there's also a lot of fear, uncertainty and doubt about Linux.

Would you buy a car with the hood welded shut? That's the question Robert Young, co-founder and chief executive of Red Hat Inc. asks resellers and customers alike when promoting the company's version of the open-source-code operating system Linux.

The Chinese government is so enthusiastic about the community ethos behind the open source community that it is making Linux the official operating system of the Peoples Republic of China, thanks to a deal struck with server side computing firm GraphOn.

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