Linux kernel version 2.2.13 has been released and can be downloaded from various mirror sites.

One of the great things about Linux is that it runs on just about anything. Sure, it sings on your Intel PC, but if you're so inclined, Linux can power your SparcStation, Amiga, or Alpha box. Heck, you can even run it on a PalmPilot.

Having successfully developed MainWin for running Windows NT applications on UNIX, Mainsoft announced plans to develop a version of MainWin that will allow Windows applications to run on the Linux OS.

Things are hotting up in the Linux skills certification world. Red Hat says that it is to offer certification for its own distribution version of the operating system and courses start next month.

Future Publishing, Britain's fourth largest consumer magazine publisher, is launching a new Linux magazine, called LINUX ANSWERS.

In an effort to bring graphics news and issues to readers more quickly, Michael J. Hammel, author of the Graphics Muse column in the Linux Gazette and TheGimp.com web site, has launched a new Graphics Muse web site - Graphics-Muse.com.

Linux could be coming soon to a desktop near you. Corel will launch its desktop version of the operating system on November 15, company officials said on Monday.

There are groups within Microsoft that have been advocating for the past few months that Windows CE 3.0 should go open source to compete with Linux.

British outfit Bloor Research has -- "by coincidence," it says -- intervened in the Linux versus NT wrangle with some tests of its own. The results of these, Bloor says, show that Linux is superior to NT in six of nine categories devised to test the two "from the standpoint of how they operated in practice to support real applications."

Linux is moving to the consumer market - and interested parties will soon find some versions of the operating system at their local software outlets and even their neighborhood bookstores.