A Kansas City Linux firm, Atipa, competing with its Silicon Valley rival, VA Linux Systems, has acquired a company created by the founders of an open-source network management/systems management project.

SuSE has quite a number of developers of Open Source projects on their payroll.

The projects include the Linux kernel, ISDN, ALSA, glibc, XF86, KDE and many others. These developers simply continue the work on their project and don't have to worry about paying their rent.

After almost three years, the most significant visible achievement of LSB is a beta specification called the Linux Development Platform Specification (LDPS). LDPS is a paltry 1,800 words describing an inadequate set of building blocks for Linux applications.

LinuxISO has done a comparative review of the 5 most popular distributions around. The review is based on the deluxe versions of the distributions.

Surprise surprise, Microsoft doesn't like Linux. Here's a writeup put out by a Microsoft manager product manager, Singapore.

IBM has a grand unification plan for its servers called Linux. Indeed, Big Blue is preparing to make sure that its entire eServer family -- from low-end Intel systems to high-end mainframes -- will support all four major Linux distributions.

The profusion of Linux versions available today soon will converge into a single edition, the head of one of the top four Linux sellers predicted.

The much-anticipated 2.4 Version of the Linux kernel will take at least another two months to complete said Linus Torvalds, creator of the open source operating system.

AMD has released its Linux-based 'Hammer Sim' - a simulator that allows developers to run and debug code written for Chimpzilla's upcoming x86-64 64-bit processor technology.

The CEO of Linux powerhouse Red Hat is in danger of being caught out by the recent downturn in the performance of high-tech companies after he predicted in June his revenues would double this year, and for years to come.