"Steve Ballmer recently revealed the not-so-surprising notion that Linux was his company's number-one threat. For any other company, this would be a sure sign that it was finally taking the Linux threat seriously. But for Microsoft, you can only tell they're worried when the trash-talking starts. And Microsoft is trash-talking Linux big time."

Whenever a new kernel comes out, there's a lag time between when it's adopted by those who don't mind compiling it themselves and by those who are waiting to get it bundled in an already-tested package from the maintainers of their distributions. The delay could be shortened by reducing the work that the distributions have to do to adopt the new kernel.

"There was Kylix, sure, but the Linux industry still suffers from blindness to the fact that the desktop is crucial to the growth of the operating system, and this requires solid, full-featured, easy-to-use desktop applications. IBM might be porting Linux apps to AIX -- but where's SmartSuite for Linux."

With its open-source foundation, Linux is wide open to people everywhere for viewing, modifying, and copying. What can be gained by adding Linux to your OS lineup? What are the risks? Should your organization begin gearing up for this new world, and if so, how?

"Last year, when you talked to the people "outside" Linux, they were attending the conference to see what this strange thing called Linux was about. This year, they mostly knew what it was about, and wanted to talk to people about getting their ideas implemented with Linux technology."

This week, HP will announce a plan to unveil Linux versions of key network operations programs commonly used by large corporations to oversee multiple networks. These programs were long considered too complex and mission-critical to be run on Linux. Not anymore.

I have tested BeOS and have made a few notes about how it stacks up to other OS's.

1.BeOS is a lot faster than any Windows OS.

2.Not much support for usb converted cable internet lines.

3. extremely active development

4.Once you get use to the navigation of BeOS it is pretty EZ to do stuff after.

I asume that after a year or two of active development BeOS will be very compatible and will be used as a replacement for Windows and Mac!!!

The Linux Kernel 2.4 has recently been released with little fanfare from Linus Torvalds himself, but with much excitement from everyone else. What exactly is new with 2.4, and how does it improve the experience of the average desktop user?

While the FreeBSD ports collection does a wonderful job of making thousands of software

packages easy to install, it doesn't cover every possible situation. If you're unfamiliar with ports,

please take a look at the earlier articles in this series; ports are one of FreeBSD's greatest

contributions to open source.

Although Linux was created in Europe and is used around the globe, it still lacks many language support and multinational capabilities. Find out about the Linux community's efforts to internationalize the OS in this in-depth report.