Many key Unix vendors are beginning to declare a future in which Unix and Linux coexist. By running Linux application binaries on Unix as the host OS, vendors want to extend the life of Unix as an enterprise mission-critical environment while capitalizing on the increasing momentum of Linux applications development.

The Toronto Star article criticized Red Hat for omitting the GNU Project from a list of milestones in "open source" software. I must defend Red Hat for this; it would be improper to include GNU in such a list, because that would be associating us with the wrong movement.

What happens in computer journalism sometimes is that the enterprise market tends to be dissed more often than it should, or at the very worst simply taken for granted.

Linuxcare has boldly gone where no one else had gone before in creating an open source business model to offer services and only services for Linux and open source software. Although their experience is unique, it also illustrates the type of problems faced by any organization that attempts to launch an open source business model in any area where no one else has done it before.

Red Hat 7's version of glibc hasn't been cleared for production use by the glibc maintainers at the GNU project. The GNU web page on glibc insists its most current stable release is 2.1.2 -- older than the version already running in Red Hat's 6.2 package.

I've loved FreeBSD since the first moment I saw that devilish logo. The OS has always impressed me with its stunning performance and infallible stability. Of course, times change and for numerous reasons I've been running Windows 2000 lately. The other day I noticed that FreeBSD 4.1 had been released, so I thought I would give it a whirl on my spare hard drive.

This article is the first in a three-part series that provides a blueprint for setting up a multifunctional firewall and server.

In this part of a three-part series, Pawel Leszek looks at open source firewall solutions for Linux.

This tutorial is designed for beginners only. This tutorial explains the

basics of shell programming by showing some examples of shell programs. A

manual may contain all the necessary information, but it won't have many

examples which are required to put the point across with greater clarity.

VNC lets you work on a remote Windows machine from a Linux machine, and vice versa, either over your network or by using a browser.