I have 30G of Hard disk space with 5Gb for Windows, 2Gb for BeOS and 4Gb for /home. So I decided to leave the other 19Gb available (I deleted my SuSE 6.4) for SuSE and install everything (except sources). After about 7 hours it was installed. Out of the 19Gb I had about 5 or 6Gb free.

Linux is Microsoft's primary concern. The company is seeing more and more Linux in the low-end Intel space. However Linux is still focused on cool technology rather than customer needs. And customer needs come first with Microsoft and Windows 2000.

IBM is now able to demonstrate a commitment to Linux across the range, which no other hardware vendor can currently match or even comes close to. Linux runs on every box in IBM's rebranded eServer range. They've even got it running on a wrist watch.

SuSE Linux 7.0 passed 238 of the 243 tests in the Linux Standards Board's Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (LSB-FHS2.1-1) test, making SuSE Linux 7.0 the most standards-compliant Linux distribution tested.

QNX Neutrino was picked to power 3Com's Audrey Net appliance. And alliances with the likes of Palm and Cisco are widely rumored. Embedded operating systems are designed to be hidden from users. So if you haven't heard of QNX Software Systems Ltd.'s QNX Neutrino, you're not alone.

The V2_OS community has decided to rewrite the kernel completely. They need assembly coders but non-assembly coders are welcome too, because C libraries are being worked on too and the people working on the V2_OS project are good assembly teachers.

Caldera Systems and VALinux, both, recently released software for Linux system management. Taken with other events, the releases may indicate that Linux system-management adolescence, if not full maturity, is upon us.

Scott McNealy has stated that he expects Sun to become the number 1 Linux company. This follows the announcement of its intention to acquire Linux appliance vendor Cobalt in a stock deal valued at around $2 billion.

Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said the software giant is open minded to the possibility of making its application software available on Linux, provided intellectual property issues can be resolved.

April's market slump put a damper on both companies' IPO plans. To get themselves through the tough times, both have cut staff, hired new management and survived on what little money remains in their corporate war chests.