In a conversation with ZDNet UK, Red Hat Chairman Bob Young explains why converting Unix customers is easy; why open source will win the day on the Internet; and why Linux will never replace Windows on the desktop.

Lately, it seems, respectable kernel hackers have started maintaining their own kernel trees. In fact Linus Torvalds himself hinted twice in the Linux kernel mailing list that he supports the notion of many different trees and that to him a Linux kernel fork is not a threat but a sign of vitality and creativity within the community.

Welcome! We meet again. It has been some time now since I\'ve heard you swear at your computer so I assume

your Linux installation went well and you have been experimenting with your

new system However If you are one of those wanderers who ever so often chance

upon random webpages on the net,

here

you will find a detailed guide to installing Linux.

Oracle Corp. is about to replace three Unix servers that run the bulk of its business applications with a cluster of Intel Corp. servers running Linux, Oracle Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison said yesterday.

Is use of Linux on Playstation 2 the onramp that eventually will enable Sony to compete as a full-fledged computer hardware and software provider?

IBM, having embraced Linux, now is on a mission to convince others that the operating system is worthy of real-world use.

Linux Orbit\'s own Joshua Marshall got to visit the LinuxWorld Expo show in New York City this week and he turns in this report on the shindig (pictures included).

France\'s MandrakeSoft has teamed up with Hewlett-Packard in the open source camp\'s latest foray into the desktop PC market. The agreement, announced on Tuesday ahead of the LinuxWorld Expo, will see HP build and promote Mandrake Linux-based desktop PCs for European and North American businesses.

Linux is in the running to power the world\'s biggest computer, we learned this week at LinuxWorld Expo. A bid is being prepared to provide the computing power behind the US government sponsored Project Purple, which will pool a vast server farm to the three leading US research labs, which is scheduled to come on stream by the end of 2004.

\"Please don\'t write anything which will make people want to buy the new pocket Sharp PDA,\" implored the product manager. \"We don\'t have enough to sell. And it\'s not ready.\"