Some Linux lovers worry that it will fall victim to its own success, pulled in many directions and fractured into incompatible versions. Success has brought Linux to the brink of the dreaded specter of fragmentation into multiple, incompatible, versions, called forking. Will this be its downfall?

F-Secure Anti-Virus for Firewalls on Linux provides unsurpassed detection and disinfection of Internet-borne viruses and malicious code passing through OPSEC CVP firewalls.

In a unique case, Bruce Perens, Hewlett-Packard's senior strategist for Linux and Open Source and former leader of Debian Linux, along with some of the top open source developers and executives have been debating what can be done with HP's proprietary Open Mail program.

Partitioning your drive is the first thing you have to do when installing Linux, and one of the scariest things. But don't be overwhelmed by it. Just think of the process as being made from many small parts, instead of one big whole. Here are some helpful tips.

It's time we corrected a common misperception: There's no law against selling free software. Read GNU's General Public License. In fact, Free Software Foundation president Richard Stallman has supported himself and the foundation for years selling free software.

You have made up your mind to install Linux. The question then is where can you get Linux. And once you figure that out, you realize that there's no such thing as a single `Linux' - there are dozens of varieties (distributions) of Linux. That leads to another question -- How does one choose from the many `Linux_distro_' (common jargon for distribution) available in the market?

A number of companies have tried some novel approaches. Troll and others such as Borland have developed a model that furthers some of the goals of free software advocates without producing software that's 100 percent free itself.

Linux NetworX has announced an exclusive partner/distributor program, the LNXI Cluster Partner Program, to resellers and VARs (value added reseller) to provide customers with fully integrated cluster solutions by Linux NetworX.

"A SuSE-internal security audit conducted by Sebastian Krahmer and Thomas Biege revealed several overflows as well as insecure file handling. These bugs have been fixed by adding length-checks and securing the file-access."

Sharp Electronics, which leads Japan's market for handheld electronic organizers, plans to challenge Palm and Microsoft on their home turf by introducing a device running on the free Linux operating system. It will be the first major maker of PDAs to introduce a Linux OS-based PDA.