Debian, the version of the Linux operating system considered to be truest to the open-source effort's roots, will get a boost tomorrow with backing from VA Linux Systems, O'Reilly and Associates, and computer maker SGI.

Friday 8 october 1999 there was a story in the Danish Computerworld about IBM had ported Linux to the S/390 mainframe.

Penguin Computing has announced the release of the world's first Linux gaming computer. This system is based on the latest high speed multimedia hardware and the most popular commercial games available for Linux bundled together with the Red Hat 6.1 Linux Operating System.

This stripped-down version of the same PC will be available for as low as $200. This box won't have a CD-ROM, will use Linux in place of Windows 98, and is based on a Cyrix chip.

TurboLinux got a multimillion-dollar shot in the arm with investments from Intel, Broadview, and August Capital that will help the company take on the Linux top dog, Red Hat.

t is irrelevant to compare NT and Linux as enterprise-ready operating systems, because neither system is enterprise-ready. In the future both will be, but for now, the enterprise belongs to Solaris, HP/UX, AIX and other Unix systems.

India is UNIX country-Indian programmers are almost obsessed with UNIX. And its cost. A free and powerful OS is needed by users in India, and Linux is a dream come true.

Linuxfeed is a new online Linuxfeed Magazine that will provide a comprehensive of technical and non-technical solutions about Linux on various Linux hardware platforms.

This article describes how to build an 1100MHz Linux workstation for a few hundred dollars using common of the shelf components.

The dominant operating system vendor posted Linux Myths on its Windows NT Server site, attempting to poke holes in commonly held Linux beliefs while touting the many ways in which Windows NT 4.0 Workstation and Server are, in Microsoft's view, superior.