Sourceware.net announces the opening of a news site geared towards Linux & UNIX users.

It is now just about exactly a year since the Halloween Documents were first released upon an unsuspecting world. Many things have changed; Linux 2.2 has gone from promise to memory, the Halloween Documents' author has quit Microsoft to go to work for a Linux-based startup.

Traditionally, application servers have not been players in the Linux world. Designed for enterprises to shuffle data from big iron and big databases to the Web-enabled end user, application servers are creatures of UNIX servers and Java-oriented companies.

Linux is, of course, Linux. Popular opinion says Linux is for Internet protocol applications, mail servers, Web servers, development and a lot of other IS stuff. Linux people, of course, use Linux for that and everything else they need to do.

Caldera delivers a Linux for all seasons.

To the ancient Greeks, a daemon was a protective spirit that presided over a person’s destiny. In UNIX circles, however, daemon stands for Disk And Execution MONitor. Daemons are server processes that are responsible for offering certain services.

Developers of embedded systems just gained a powerful means to locate the information and components they need for incorporating the highly popular Linux operating system into non-desktop applications.

What message do you give your children when you raise them on Windows? You teach them that they should never question authority or monopoly, that "only experts can fix software" and that they should never, ever expect to get under the hood and fix things themselves without expensive training and proper certification. Using open source software, you teach co-operation and community, you teach them that everyone is a participant..

Here's the first installment of my alphabetical review of window managers for GNU/Linux. Why alphabetical? To avoid a perception of bias, for one. I'm not trying to say which is good, better, best. What I am interested in doing is creating a viable resource for those interested in trying different window managers.

Companies are increasing their use of the Linux operating environment and delaying roll-out of Windows 2000, according to a market research survey.