Over the last several months, VA Linux has hired managing directors for its German and British offices, and key developers including Wichert Akkerman, leader of the Debian Project, who is based in the Netherlands.

Such an interpretation requires heroic optimism, and extraordinary faith - in the face of all the historical evidence - that Microsoft is prepared to view non-Windows markets as fields to be developed for rather than opposition to be crushed.

With KDE and GNOME development

getting all the headlines in the media

lately, Linux Orbit decided to take a

quick look at how other desktop

developments are doing. In this first

In order to face the shift of the Internet to serious business use, IBM announced a new range of servers built specifically for business--entrusting a number of its new server models to the stability of Linux.

VACM is a powerful, flexible Open Source software tool that is designed to enable easy remote monitoring and management of large clusters of hundreds of servers, whether they are all located under one roof or distributed across ISP data centers around the world.

According to TeraSolutions, the FreeBSD-powered ftp.freesoftware.com FTP server has surpassed a milestone of two terabytes of files downloaded per day from a single server machine. This milestone was set last week after the simultaneous releases of FreeBSD 4.1.1 and Red Hat Linux 7.0.

According to TeraSolutions, the FreeBSD-powered ftp.freesoftware.com FTP server has surpassed a milestone of two terabytes of files downloaded per day from a single server machine. This milestone was set last week after the simultaneous releases of FreeBSD 4.1.1 and Red Hat Linux 7.0.

There's no doubt that Torvalds has been a major force in computing and networking. His operating system started out as the catalysts of most revolutions do--quietly. But as interest in Linux grew, so did its commercial potential.

The past few months has been extremely difficult for Linuxcare. The support service company which began servicing the Linux community a little over a year ago has been recovering from what can only be described as a frightening bombardment

of bad press.

Mosix implements a Single System Image cluster (SSI). SSI clusters are best because they give users the impression of working on a single giant computer instead of a cluster of individual nodes.