This week, Big Blue did its share to burnish the

corporate image of Linux, announcing the availability of DB2 Universal Database for Linux on IBM zSeries and S/390 mainframes, two versions of its WebSphere Applications Server for those same systems, and a version of Extended Enterprise Edition for Linux that works with Intel-based clusters.

Next time you're on a transoceanic flight, be sure to pay close

attention when the flight attendants come around selling duty

free merchandise. That handheld point-of-sale terminal which

is used to enter your order and print your receipt may well

contain Embedded Linux.

NASA will be attatching $600 million solar arrays to the Alpha

space station this weekend, and they will be using a

QNX-based vision system to guide the 50-foot Canadarm.

Is Linux just Unix Lite? Sun CEO Scott McNealy thinks so. Linux advocates strongly disagree, as this Techtarget/SearchEnterpriseLinux polls reveals.

Telia is pulling seventy web hosting Sun servers from service

and replacing them with a single IBM S/390 G6 server hosting

more than 1500 virtual Linux servers simultaneously.

The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce that release 1.5 of the NetBSD operating system is now available.

NetBSD is widely known as the most portable operating system in the world. It currently supports 31 system families and 12 CPU families, all from a single source tree. The 1.5 release brings many performance and security enhancements, as well as support for new platforms (such as the G4 cube) and new peripherals.

Hewlett-Packard is taking out cheap insurance with its hiring

of open-source advocate Bruce Perens, just in case Linux

becomes more of a force in the marketplace than anyone

expects.

Looking for clustering solutions for Linux? Here's the scoop on solutions that started shipping recently.

Have you been waiting for a consistent journaling file system for Linux? The wait is over, according to this SearchEnterpriseLinux.com story. Here is a look at what is already available and what's on the way.

SearchEnterpriseLinux.com reporter Beth Quimby sums up the week's Linux-related news. Get info about a new Linux unit, a deal between a China Netcom and Bluepoint Linux and a new evolving book about Red Hat Linux 7.