Lindows.com, Inc. announced a significant milestone, the release of Sneak Preview 2. Lindows.com, Inc. is offering a further glimpse of the company\'s progress to Insiders, a highly interested group of LindowsOS supporters prior to launching their first official release, LindowsOS Version1, later this year.

If you\'re already a Linux guru, certification can provide the official evidence that will convince potential employers of your expertise. If you\'re a Linux newbie, the process of earning certification can bring you up to speed on this increasingly popular operating system.

Even people remote from the computer industry have heard about Linux, a free operating system that has become widespread and, some people expect, may someday replace Microsoft Windows. Its creator Linus Torvalds, the world leader of the popular open source movement in the IT industry, told his story (in collaboration with David Diamond) in the book Just for Fun, published by HarperCollins in May 2001. The book was translated into Russian by EnRus and published by EKSMO.

For all its server room successes, Linux has found the mainstream corporate desktop a much harder nut to crack, and much of the blame belongs to usability issues. With a solid, configurable interface that should please Linux newbies and power users alike, Version 3.0 of the K Desktop Environment represents Linux\'s best shot yet at breaking out of the back office to gain ground on the desktop.

Once a purveyor of closed and proprietary solutions, the company has recast itself as flag bearer of all things open and interoperable. Seeing the company\'s peace, love and penguin ads for Linux are indeed worthy of an eye-rubbing double take.

Surely I have gone mad ! You might think, what has Linux to do with horses

? Well Linux might not yet be running a robotic horse, though that too is

not far, but Linux surely has got a lot to do with mounting. You see, mounting

is the Linux phrase for getting the operating system to access your disks.

This disk can be a floppy, a cdrom or a hard disk partition.

To mount a disk , there are two necessary conditions

This is for people who want to learn the basics of Linux at home, on the Internet. You don\'t have to be a \"learn all alone\" kind of person to do it this way -- there\'s plenty of human help out there. These three venues offer current, interactive, real-life Linux help for real people.

KDE 3.0 is available in 50 languages and ships with the core KDE libraries, the base desktop environment, an integrated development environment, and hundreds of applications and other desktop enhancements from the other KDE base packages (administration, artwork, development, edutainment, development, games, multimedia, PIM, utilities, and more).

A new biography of Richard Stallman looks at how the free software mastermind got to be so single-mindedly stubborn.

Not only are the planets aligning in the Linux universe of late, it seems also that the stars, the moon, and even Sun are snapping into place for the once upstart OS.