Linux is getting an added push from Hewlett Packard and Intel by way of the IA-64 Developer's Kit for Linux which enables Linux developers to develop, test, debug and run IA-64 applications for the upcoming Itanium processor.

Linux 2.4 isn't soup yet. So Linux distributors are finding themselves faced with the choice of building products around the older kernel or the beta, bleeding-edge version.

A team of IBM summer interns has created a free, new tool that eases the task of writing Linux-based software. The tool, called Sash Weblications, allows Web developers who don't have extensive programming experience to write software that runs on Linux.

Struggling Linuxcare has received $30 million from Lehman Brothers and several other investors, enough to carry the company to planned profitability in the fourth quarter of 2001, the company said.

Caldera, bought the Server (Unix) and Professional Services division of SCO, the long-standing leader of Intel Unix. With this single move, Linux and Unix are unified for the first time under one company. The enterprise operating-system world will never be the same.

UNIX, in the form of Linux and other Open Source OSs, has made a serious comeback. Computer architecture is changing rapidly and the idea of porting an older OS from a mainframe to today's micro just doesn't make sense.

Coollogic has released a new set-top box, a Linux-based device that can run Java programs.

Ericsson and Red Hat will jointly develop consumer products combining existing industry standards such as Java and the latest open source technologies such as Embedded Red Hat Linux.

If big brand-name applications like Office were ported to Linux, consumers who just use web browsers and word processors would see that Linux is not only for college students and technogeeks.

IBM gave details on a mainframe application that will let customers install hundreds of copies of Linux without requiring extensive mainframe programming skills, while CA and BMC will introduce software for managing S/390-based Linux applications, and security and storage functions.