TurboLinux has announced the release of its new TurboLinux Workstation Pro 6.1 that includes the first commercial version of Linux for Intel's forthcoming Itanium processor systems (IA-64).

In Part 2 of this series on firewalls, another big name in software goes Linux. Check Point FireWall-1 helps Linux adapt to the critical area of securing enterprises. Also, some more firewalls for those who want to pay for their security.

Unix vendors are also looking at the impact of Linux at the low end of the Unix server market and are reacting differently to the threat it poses.

Instead of using traditional supercomputers that can cost millions of dollars, scientists are reconstructing molecular configurations of viruses and developing 3-D models of their structures, using high-end Linux-based server clusters that are much less expensive, yet just as effective.

The growing popularity of Linux is starting to take its toll?most notably in lengthy delays in kernel updates and releases.

Everyone else is trying on Debian these days, so why not Libranet? This UNIX veteran beams brightly with many rarely-seen features like graphical configuration and excellent 3rd-party driver support, and brings a new level of usability to a distribution based on Debian.

Young spoke about "growing the Linux pond", in which he believes Red Hat has become a big fish. A self-confessed salesman, Bob Young says that it's not about selling software, it's about getting more people using Linux.

From a plummeting stock price to exaggerated reports of buggy code to growing outcry over the company's perceived attempts to set itself apart from the rest of the Linux distributor community, Red Hat has been buffeted by nothing but bad news in recent weeks.

The complexity of managing updates and patches is only one of the issues that the Linux community needs to deal with if it wants to make lasting friendships in commercial organisations.

FreeBSD has a new core team which was elected by active FreeBSD

committers. According to the FreeBSD Handbook, the core team

"constitutes the project's 'Board of Directors', responsible for

deciding the project's overall goals and direction as well as managing

specific areas of the FreeBSD project landscape."