BSDi will use the proceeds from the investment to continue to develop and market advanced BSD operating systems and its iXtreme Series line of Internet servers

computing systems and to provide ongoing backing for the FreeBSD Project, the developers of the FreeBSD open source operating system.

BSDi will use the proceeds from the investment to continue to develop and market advanced BSD operating systems and its iXtreme Series line of Internet servers

computing systems and to provide ongoing backing for the FreeBSD Project, the developers of the FreeBSD open source operating system.

With its polished, accessible interface, Version 2 of the KDE Project's KDesktop Environment makes important strides toward providing desktop Linux users with the sort of computing experience they've come to expect from Windows and Mac OS.

Microsoft's Silicon Valley competitors, while acknowledging no company is immune to hacker attacks, say Windows has greater security challenges than older, more mature systems built on Unix and a Unix spinoff, Linux.

With the general availability of SuSE Linux Enterprise Server for S/390, SuSE supports more IBM server platforms than any other commercially available Linux distribution.

The Italian state administration is excessively dependent on Microsoft's software, and the country could achieve significant budget savings if it switched to open-source software, according to an open letter that a group of information technology professionals is preparing to deliver to Public Administration Minister.

According to VARBusiness's annual report card of vendors, Linux vendors come up

short when compared to other OS vendors. In the rankings that were announced recently, Microsoft led the way, followed by Novell, SCO, Caldera, Red Hat, and LinuxOne.

What happens under the eminently plausible scenario wherein Torvalds, widely regarded as the "benevolent dictator" of the Linux operating system, and synonymous with the Linux project in the public mind, decides to quit? Or retires to a desert isle? Or gets sick? Or gets hit by a bus?

Interesting that LinuxMall.com is not mentioned more frequently in the Linux related trade press, especially now! LinuxMall.com just went public via merging with an already public company that was converting to Linux, and are now providing the OpenSource community with an unprecedented opportunity.

The cash-strapped british health service would benefit from adopting open source software such as Linux, according to health service experts. It is claimed that using open source software would reduce the cost of implementing technology within the health service and make systems more future-proof and adaptable.