Intel Corporation today announced that it is placing an Open Runtime Platform into the open source community as a research platform for advancing e-Business applications.

Corel's latest Linux distribution makes leaps and bounds in ease of use and installation. And although Corel offers hand-holding for beginners, advanced users can still escape the graphical user interface and head back to the command line.

Caldera demonstrated its Cosmos Linux management product at LinuxWorld which allows network administrators to establish parameters and configurations for Linux servers only once. Once established, settings can be applied to Linux servers across the entire network.

Linux is up against some stern arguments against its use in secure government computing--arguments open source security experts are happily blowing apart.

Red Hat today edged a penny closer to profitability than analysts had expected, boosted by several companies paying to use its software in gadgets and other so-called embedded devices.

Mr. Bill Gates recently said a few things about Linux. First he said that Linux was just hype and that it cannot compete with Windows on ease-of-use. He also said the Open Source model doesn't offer any great benefit in terms of reliability and security.

Right now I am very concerned about some of the larger companies who are coming

into the Linux space. These companies are moving people off projects where they

have been developing proprietary stuff. They don't understand the way that Linux people do things.

Long held as a mainstay of shared file systems, AFS, an enterprise file system,

was released to the Open Source community by IBM.

Nautilus will be released under the GNU General Public License, which means it will be free. Which raises one little question: How will Eazel turn a profit?

Red Hat reported revenue of $18.5 million for the second quarter ended August 31, 2000, a 76% increase over revenue of $10.5 million for the second quarter last year.