Opera Software ASA today unleashed Opera 6.0 for Linux Beta 1 with a wide range of speed-boosting functions and exclusive features only available to Linux users. The earlier version of the Opera

for Linux browser, Opera 5 for Linux, has already been downloaded and installed a record one million times.

In a move that could undercut its anti-Microsoft campaign, Sun Microsystems plans to start charging for the next version of its StarOffice software, a suite of programs that competes with Microsoft Office but runs on Linux (news - web sites) and Solaris as well as on Windows.

There is a lot of activity around Linux in the marketplace today. Strategies differ from vendor to vendor, and there are a variety of ways companies are experimenting with, evaluating, and deploying Linux in their IT infrastructures. Just like any technology decision, if and where to deploy Linux is a substantial decision which involves matching the right technology to the right business problem.

What is a Web Server?

Before we get into the

particulars of Apache, let\'s talk about what a web server is. A

web server is a program that runs

on a host computer (also, confusingly enough, called a web server) that serves

up web sites. In other words, the web server program sits around awaiting

requests from visitors\' web browsers for objects it has in its possession, and

then sends these objects back for the visitor\'s viewing pleasure. Objects that

web servers can serve include HTML documents, plain text, images, sounds,

Nokia yesterday promised to \"share\" core mobile network technologies with its competitors. It also unveiled its own range of \"open\" network modules, making Linux-based systems a part of its core infrastructure product portfolio for the first time.

Microsoft Corp. , trying to protect its software empire from open-source rivals like Linux, on Thursday said it is expanding a program to share the underlying code of its Windows operating system.

An introduction to the RULE project, which aims to bridge the gap between programmers rolling their own and newbies installing everything.

The chmod/chgrp/chown commands are used to change the permissions/ownership

of files and/or directories. Linux is often used as a multi-user system and

it is not desirable that all users have access to all files and directories.

For eg. : On a multi-user environment in a corporate office using a central

server running linux , it might be required the accounts documents be shared

between employees of the acccounts department . At the same time, it might

be undesirable and indeed dangerous if anyone having access to the server

is able to read/edit them.

Although some of us administrators may hesitate to admit it, it is often necessary to relinquish some control and delegate responsibility, especially in multiadministrator environments. Fortunately, you can easily delegate administrative duties on your Linux systems without giving out the root password. Just use Sudo.

The goal for most desktop-oriented Linux distributions in the last few years has been to build a reliable desktop that works out of the box. However, in OfB Labs experiences, most Linux packages fall short of this goal - if only by a small bit. Please notice that I say \"most\" and not \"all\" in the previous sentence.