I use the software that works now, and always will work. It works on new computers. It works on old computers too. And most importantly, it's free. These are three things that will make me always prefer Linux to Windows, no matter how much Windows should improve.

These unplanned and unanticipated delays lead me to pose a single question: has the breadth and complexity of high-profile Linux/Open Source projects outstripped the Open Source software-development process?

Wine allows you to run Windows applications on a Linux system. After seven years as alpha code, Wine's developers expect to have a 1.0 release of the software ready some time in the next six to twelve months.

Linux continues its march to the desktop, strengthened by the arrival of Open Office and other non-hacker applications, but what good are these apps to you if they don't speak your language? Localization is important if you want Linux to be an alternative for the non-English-speaking world.

Whether your aim is to expel the evil operating system Zurg from your computer, or find a way to peacefully co-exist with it, you'll find that the current stable release of Debian, aka Potato, is the easiest Debian to work with yet.

Linux Standard Base has not met its own stated goals with LDPS 1.0, as ncurses incompatibilities demonstrate. Furthermore, the inadequacy of the standard doesn't seem influenced by the distributors.

Apart from firewalls, which aim at protecting internal networks against attacks from the internet, web servers are the second important field requiring a high degree of security. This article shows how this can be done on a Linux system within just 45 minutes. The article uses SuSE 6.4.

Support for OpenBSD (within PHP in particular) has in the past been sketchy, but things appear to be improving now. PHP3 and MySQL are both in the ports tree distributed with OpenBSD 2.7, making installation and configuration a relatively simple process.

Tech giants are motivated by all sorts of considerations when they pour millions of dollars into high-risk ventures based on a radically different way of making money off of software. What is very refreshing to note is that you don't find an attempt to use these investments to dominate markets. Also, several Linux startups seem to have done quite nicely without any corporate investors."

Looking for cutting edge supercomputer technology on your network? This article covers the setup of a Linux supercomputer. This article covers both the hardware and software configurations, but you should have a good understanding of networking and Linux before reading this article.