With this release, Caldera dangles an Internet carrot in front of Windows users, hoping to lure some of them with eDesktop's quick, easy Internet access features. Building on the highly stable and successful OpenLinux platform, Caldera again delivers a product that should attract current Caldera users, users of other distributions, and newcomers to the Linux community.

Flexibility, logic of Gnome and KDE interfaces allow Linux users to address their own needs, rather than the developers', while at the same time boosting personal productivity and satisfaction.

I have a difficult time pointing at much negative about Best Linux. The installer is user friendly and fast. Autodetection of hardware is good as well, and I like having the opportunity to configure printer during install. The amount of software coming with Best Linux is big.

What we can't be doing, though, is raising unrealistic expectations or making promises we can't keep in our enthusiasm to advocate Linux. We're getting closer to world domination every day. Let's keep it clean in the home stretch.

This installment will cover the most effective way to become an Open Source office, installing an Open Source operating system. This article compares the installation of the familiar Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 against a popular Linux distribution, Linux Mandrake 7.1.

The way anti-GPL'ers see it, even the tiniest code snippet can force an entire project to be handed over to the GPL, which could be disastrous for a proprietary software company, and extremely distasteful for a programmer who just wants to maintain control over his own creations.

This tutorial will give you an overview of what the kernel does, as well as instructions on compiling and customizing it to suit your desires.

This article offers in-depth tips on using Wine, Win4Lin, and VMware, and touches on Bochs. You can have your cake and eat it, too, with Windows apps running on Linux.

In this three-part series, you'll learn to install and configure a Linux server and firewall. This third part covers the process of installing the firewall itself, including setting security goals, tweaking the OS, ensuring local security, and more.

The goal of building a world-class free operating system which "doesn't suck" has clearly been achieved; critics may say that Linux does not satisfy them, but they ignore the fact that it certainly fills a critical role at many universities and businesses around the world.