Compaq still has a very close relationship with Microsoft. Indeed, Compaq is the PC maker Microsoft most frequently courts. So is the company speaking with forked tongue when it tries to woo Linux users?

Terra Soft, the company behind the Yellow Dog and Black Lab Linux PowerPC distros has released a supercomputer cluster based on Apple's iMac.

IBM may be driving the new economy with its e-business efforts, but deep down it still acts like the old-economy Big Blue.

Caldera Systems' plan to purchase the server and services units of struggling Unix vendor SCO puts a new spin on the evolution of Linux. To succeed, however, Caldera must articulate a coherent road map for OpenLinux and SCO OpenServer.

Hitachi is to offer Linux on all of its major product lines, from mobile devices to mainframes, the company announced in Tokyo recently. Support will be available on its MP mainframe series; IA-64, 9000V Unix and HA8000 PC servers, the Flora PC series and its mobile products.

The KDE camp doesn't want a corporate-backed foundation taking charge of its desktop environment. But that isn't stopping the group from assembling a body to go head-to-head with the Gnome Foundation.

The Santa Cruz Operation is to shed 19 per cent of its workforce, 190 employees, as it gets ready to hand its Unix operations over to Caldera.

The future of Project Monterey was thrown into doubt last month when SCO announced that its server and professional services division would be sold to Linux distributor Caldera.

Nokia has launched the Media Terminal, a new product for the home that combines Internet media technologies and digital broadcasting technologies. The software platform is based on Linux operating system, Xfree86-windowing system, the Mozilla web browser and compliant protocols and standards.

We don't want to use *just* the GPL for Python, because there are many proprietary software developers in the Python community who don't want to work with the GPL.