A low-cost linux-based handheld computer developed by seven Indian engineers to take the Internet to rural masses will start rolling out in May, the head of a firm pioneering the project said.

Mission Critical Linux, which once hoped to lead a second, more mature generation of Linux companies, was forced to lay off 90 percent of its staff after unsuccessful attempts to attract a buyer.

Sun\'s Chief Competitive Officer, published an op-ed about IBM\'s new \"Linux only\" mainframe, the IBM z800. He heavily criticizes IBM\'s offer, on grounds of economic and technical viability and performance issues. In this article Moshe Bar does a reality check.

Open source guru Eric Raymond says Linux kernel patching is in crisis, and he has renewed calls for someone to assist Linus Torvalds as a \'penguin patch lieutenant\'.

AMD announced that SuSE Linux AG, has submitted enhancements to the official Linux kernel to support AMDs x86-64 instruction set. The Linux kernel is the fundamental source code upon which all Linux operating systems are based.

Simple ways to achieve performance improvements using Linux for enterprise-level databases like Oracle.

When RAID, LVM and journaled filesystems are added to the mix, the benchmarks come back with surprising results.

In part 13 of the Cheap and Easy Linux Network for Peanuts, we discuss the required components needed to install Nola, the GPL licensed, open-source, Linux-based accounting system.

I first became interested in Redmond Linux, now officially known as Lycoris Desktop/LX, back in January, when a new release of the distro was officially announced. I must admit that I wasn\'t expecting much more than an imitation of other distros, combined with an attempt at Windows XP graphics.

CodeWeavers, Inc., a Windows-to-Linux software developer, today unveiled CrossOver Plugin Version 1.1, the newest version of the company\'s Windows-To-Linux adapter for Windows browser plugins and email viewers. Among its many improvements, CrossOver Plugin 1.1 provides new support for multi-user environments, enabling quick and easy rollout to literally thousands of desktops without reconfiguration.