Many IT shops are facing a challenge of managing Linux. The economic benefits of Linux can be undermined if the technology ends up exhibiting a disproportionately high total cost of ownership. This can happen if systems administrators have to spend time managing Linux servers separately from other enterprise resources or have to use different tool kits to do so.

Microsoft's political strategy is to confound the concept of Open Source with the concept of intellectual property infringement in the minds of policymakers. It is using distorted definitions of Open Source to do political and hence market damage to Open Source.

"If Linux-OS disables CPRM and it is RE-ENABLED by the "REAL-ROGUE-JAVA" or "LICENSED-APPLICATION-ON-THE-NET" I will file a class action lawsuit against the drive maker, the oem, and every dirty-rotten-!@#$% that damages linux-os and my reputation as an os-writer."

Open Projects Net, home to free software projects as Debian GNU/Linux, Enlightenment, handhelds.org, Jabber, KDE, kernelnewbies, PocketLinux, Vorbis, etc, has embarked on a program of expansion in order to increase its rate of growth and thereby continue to be self-sustaining.

Here are some tips which will help you format Linux partitions using ext2fs on the new disk, format swap partitions, check for bad blocks on the disc, mount the disc, copy files from old to new disc, etc.

IBM is looking for Linux solutions providers. Under its Linux-focused `You Pass, We Pay program,' IBM will reimburse business partners for up to $3,000 in tuition and test expenses for each employee who gets certified via the Linux Professional Institute or Red Hat Linux.

We, in the open source community, have something unique, good and revolutionary. A paradigm shift from a limited to an unlimited world and not just in the software industry. A wide gamut of industries could be improved with an open source development model. We need to get the ball rolling.

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This is definitely good for Linux, but it's possible that it may not be so good for some Linux companies. While fears that the sheer scale of IBM's Linux support might enable Big Blue to somehow `hijack' Linux appear to be unfounded, IBM's effort to Linux-enable their large partner base may end up seriously undercutting the pure-play Linux companies.

In China, a determined effort to challenge Windows is meeting the reality of a market that isn't yet ready to dump the US-made software.

Customers with Linux-installed models want to swap for Windows as nobody knows how to use it. But, for security reasons, the government is hoping that the increasing popularity of Linux worldwide, will translate into its domestic acceptance.