Linux distributor Red Hat is about to buy Linux development tool provider Cygnus, if sources cited by Slashdot are to be believed.

Hewlett-Packard has opened up the programming instructions of its electronic deal-making software and will ultimately release control over its development.

The recent wave of e-business outages has taught IT managers some hard lessons. Chief among them: Once your servers start buckling under the weight of new customers, it's already too late to add processing power.

A little while back I penned a column stating that Linux wasn't quite ready as a corporate desktop operating system, though it certainly had plenty of legs in the server room.

A cofounder of a Linux company made a comment Monday that would cause any Linux groupie to break into a cold sweat.

KYZO releases the commercial version of its popular PizzaBox Linux completely pre-installed in a bootable Flash-ROM.

Is Linux really a "fringe operating system" that can't compete effectively unless the government steps in and protects it from big, bad Microsoft?

An Exclusive Interview with Jon "maddog" Hall, Executive Director, Linux International.

Adding an important development tool for professional Xbase developers, PlugSys International announces a new compiler for the Linux operating system.

The Unix Wars are over. Looking back at a copy of BYTE 1992, with the provocative article title "Is Unix Dead?" on its front cover, and rereading the article, I find it hard to believe that in such a short time, both the question and some of the vendor politicking the article mentions, are very much history.