- Best Technical Support Award - http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayTC.pl?97poy.supp.htm
InfoWorld declares the Linux user community to have the best technical support. Compares help Linux users give to each other as opposed to the amount of tech support offered by major corporations.
- 90% Windows, 5% Mac, 5% Linux? - http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19661.html
Register article by a Newsforge regular about the "market share" of popular Operating Systems.
- Linux code co-op - http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19311.html
IBM, NEC, Fujitsu, Hitachi co-operate on corporate Linux code. From The Register.
- Linux loves the slow economy - http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-2001-03/lw-03-penguin_4.html
Explains the benefits of a soft economy to the adoption of free software and to Linux in particular.
- Open Source's First Six Months - http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue31/raymond.html
Eric Raymond talks about the 6 months after Netscape announced its commitment to open source.
- Linux in the spotlight - http://eetimes.com/news/98/1017news/linux.html
Review of the Taos Tech Talk with Linus by EETimes.
- Crossroads 6 - 1 - http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds6-1/xrds6-1.html
This is the Fall 1999 issue of Crossroads, the International ACM student magazine. This issue features articles related to all aspects of Linux, including parallel computing, networking, and security.
- Can you install Linux? I think I can - http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/28/linux.diary/
Linux may be leading the open-source movement but is it the software for the people? It depends. Would you recognize a video card if it jumped off a motherboard? [CNN]
- Create a Linux based Network for peanuts - http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2001/0823.xterminal.html
A functioning workstation for little or no money on older hardware? It can be done, and here is how.
- Linux comes of age - http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0917/tec-linux-09-17-01.asp
Low cost and stability make open-source system an attractive choice.
- Feds Can no Longer Ignore Linux - http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/24/linux.for.feds.idg/
There may come a day when government IT managers realize the cost savings of not having to pay for an OS license for every desktop and server. [CNN]
- HP-Compaq's Great Software Challenge - http://www.businessweek.com/investor/content/sep2001/pi2001096_399.htm
What will CEO Carly Fiorina do about its gaggle of operating systems? The decision could confirm her vision and make Linux a huge winner. Business Week Online.
- Linux makes strides in enterprise market - http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2001/1031enterprise.html
In an environment of budget pressures, corporations are more open to the idea of free, open-source software.
- CRN: Constructing a Windowless Office - http://www.crn.com/Sections/CoverStory/CoverStory.asp?ArticleID=31793
Matches and compares Linux options to what were once considered Windows tasks.
- Why Linux will prevail - http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,5103573,00.html
Linux is destined for more than servers, and this article explains why.
- ZDNet: Tech Update - http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/filters/specialreport/0,14622,6022269,00.html
Special report, Linux in the limelight.
- Why Microsoft is wary of open source - http://news.com.com/2100-1001-268520.html?legacy=cnet
CNet discusses how Linux's popularity could hinder the software giant in its quest to gain control of a server market.
- Governments push open-source software - http://news.com.com/2100-1001-272299.html
Concerned with costs and dependency, legislators from Brazil to China are increasingly considering open-source software. CNET.
- Grassroots Linux grows (InfoWorld) - http://ww1.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?/features/980608linux.htm
An article that contains stories of different companies that have started using Linux. Also contains a section on "How to pick your Linux" which states the advantages of different distributions and links to their homepages.
- InfoWorld Interview with Linus Torvalds - http://ww1.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?/interviews/980409torvalds.htm
Linus Torvalds talks economics and operating systems in this interview with Mike Vizard of InfoWorld. Focuses mainly on how Linux is affecting the way people look at the future of operating systems and economics models that drive the industry.
- Linux picking up database steam - http://ww1.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?980710.whlinux.htm
Computer Associates and possibly Informix will make databases for Linux.
- InfoWorld's OS of the Year - http://ww1.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayTC.pl?/97poy.win3.htm
The Red Hat Linux distribution wins InfoWorld's OS of the Year for 1997. Contains a small synopsis of the distributions strengths.
- She-geeks confess love for Linux - http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-515695.html?legacy=zdnn
Sick of sexist attitudes, female techies from around the world are getting connected and getting organized. [ZDNN]
- Linux Winning The War of Perception - http://www.it-director.com/article.php?id=1903
As far as IBM is concerned Linux has become mainstream and it is doing mainstream business.
- The software war goes nuclear - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/?1678540
An article arguing which OS will win the coveted spot atop the network OS throne. Mentions how projects such as the K Desktop Environment will help make Unix, and Linux, a more viable operating system than ever before.
- Survey on PC WEEK - http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/filters/zdmrc/0,14175,6020441,00.html
In which users where asked "What do you use when failure is not an option?". Linux was choosen by 80 percent of respondance.
- CNET- Server sellers bang Linux drum - http://news.com.com/2117-1001-948855.html?tag=nisi
With the exception of Microsoft, most of the computing industry's largest companies now actively support Linux.
- Linux: Penguin suitability - http://bulletin.ninemsn.com.au/bulletin/eddesk.nsf/All/9625DD850DCA7868CA256C0D00031717!open
Open operating system Linux would love to bolster its success in big back-end servers with a slice of the lucrative desktop market. Windows' licensing pitch may be the penguin's invitation to the party.
- Economist.com- Linux gets a break - http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1338664
For the first time in years, Microsoft's unassailable lead in computer operating systems is being challenged by manufacturers offering Linux software.
- Desktop Linux is for real - http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2878206,00.html
Love it or hate, Linux is not going away, but it is gaining ground.
- Linux Renews Desktop Bid - http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,634061,00.asp
Enterprises are looking again at Linux as a Windows alternative.
- Linux future scales out - http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/12/02/021202hnunited.xml
As software companies continue to pour millions into scaling Linux for the enterprise, some observers now believe the open-source OS's future is to serve as a distributed, network-based operating system.
- How valid is the IDC data? - http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/feedback/feedcopy.asp?CommentID=1787
Should the Microsoft TCO information be trusted?
- Tracking Tux: Research Round-Up - http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/12/02/1118241.shtml?tid=23
Where Linux is, and where it is going, in the enterprise sector.
- IBM Mulls Linux For Its PCs - http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=24621
IBM may soon start packing its PCs with the open-source Linux operating system. IBM's Linux initiative has so far been limited to its servers and workstations.
- Cell Phone Makers Call on Linux - http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,108556,00.asp
Can the alternative OS compete in a market already dominated by Palm and Microsoft?
- Linux Gears up to Challenge Windows on Desktop - http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techreviews/products/software/2003-01-07-linux-windows_x.htm
With more stability, security and pricing in a desktop OS with a look and feel like Windows, Linux advocates say they are getting ready to take on Microsoft, which dominates the desktop market. [USA Today]
- Desktop Dreams - http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=193
Linux on the desktop in the Wake of MandrakeSoft's Bankruptcy.
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