Soundcard support for Linux is in something of a fragmented state these days. The drivers supplied with the Linux kernel source (the OSS drivers) are functional and work well with many sound cards; they are being maintained, but the original developers have gone on to form a company, 4Front Technologies, which supplies enhanced drivers (including drivers for cards which Linux doesn't support) to Linux users willing to pay for them.

Perl is best used to write small programs, specialized for one task. To speed up the development process it is a good idea to have a framework at hand which offers some basic structure and functionality that you would like to have in most programs.

A small business acquires a stable network by installing Linux on their servers.

DMS announces the public release of KOPI, the first fully functioning open source Java compiler, written and developed entirely in the Java language.

Load balancing is a growing concern for any service that experiences high demand. It is especially important to Web sites, not only because of the nature of traffic growth, but also because of the unusual behavior of the HTTP protocol.

Motif 2.1.20 is Software2Go's second release of The Open Group's Motif User Interface Toolkit. Software2Go Motif 2.1.20 incorporates the latest fixes and enhancements from The Open Group, enhanced by Software2Go's integration with the latest X Windowing System distributions for Open Source operating systems.

With all Linux's strengths in so many areas, these various GUIs continue to be among some of platforms few yet largest stumbling blocks. Why is this? Most might think that more is better. This is incorrect The reason is because consistency is king for desktop environments.

Beijing, Oct. 29th afternoon, invited by TurboLinux, Richard M. Stallman, the creator of Free Software Foundation made a two-hour keynote introducing GNU and free software on the opening ceremony of Tsinghua GNU/Linux R&D center, which is cofounded by Tsinghua University and TurboLinux.

This article is the second "Running Linux on an Athlon" articles, - it is meant to show you the difference between Mandrake 6.1 (and RedHat 6.0) on the same hardware.

"Hallelujah!"

Such was the reaction of Ransome Love, chief executive of Linux operating system seller Caldera Systems, after hearing of Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's finding that Microsoft misused monopoly power. "No one wants to see Microsoft go under--we all just want to see them play fair," Love said.