For Windows system administrators, making the leap to introducing Linux systems into their organisations might be a little intimidating at first. But, with a few pointers, administering and supporting Linux is not as difficult as it seems.

The New York financial community is increasingly adopting Linux to cut costs, and London\'s banks aren\'t far behind.

The company, whose Caldera Open Linux distribution had achieved wide acceptance before it was withdrawn from the retail channel in 2000, reports that its second-quarter revenues will fall between 15 and 20 percent short of estimates, coming in at between $15.1 and $15.5 million. The company had earlier estimated that revenues would be as high as $18 million for the quarter

The poorest region of Spain has adopted Linux as the official operating system of public schools and offices, in hopes of improving the area\'s vast technological and economic lag.

Bill Gates took another shot at the Open Source question last week, and came up with some interesting new spin. Essentially, if your country standardises on Linux, then you\'re not going to have any IT jobs in your country, says Bill.

The Samba open source file and print server outperforms Windows 2000 by a wide margin.

Ted discusses his work on the Linux kernel, Linux International, Linux Standard Base and other areas of the Open Source community.

Cheap software is a top priority for SMEs so software which is effectively free, like open source, would seem an obvious choice. But just how easy is it for a small firm to swap Windows for Linux?

When the loss of about 1,000 computer servers in the World Trade Center attacks put Lehman Brothers in the market to buy millions of dollars of systems, it looked at a slightly unorthodox option: Linux, an operating system that is as noteworthy for its speed as for the fact that its source code is free.

Bradley Kuhn, vice president of the Free Software Foundation, says the organization is contacting LindowsOS representatives because the company has not included source code with its \"sneak preview\" releases. Lindows CEO Michael Robertson says his company will comply with the GPL when the product is released to the public.