Many programmers are holding out for the day when ebusinesses can run using only open source products. A new standard may end the waiting.

It seems as though the cuddly penguin, the mascot for the Linux operating system, is forever forging into new territory.

Looks at what you can do to secure sendmail on four types of systems: systems with user login access, systems with user accounts but no shell access, POP/IMAP mail servers, and firewalls.

Linux is set to impact both the high-end graphics users as well as desktop

users. Technical demands from sophisticated users are being felt by hardware

producers as they continue to improve drivers and capabilities.

Are the performance differences between the two as stark as the MySQL website

suggests?

XFree86 4.0.1 offers a mass of improvements and bug fixes along with a lot of cleaning of the code in XFree86.

By moving to Linux-based server infrastructures and free software applications, firms can guarantee they’ll never again be victimized by technology lock-in, because the GPL raises the costs of lock-in tactics to the point at which they’re useless to even the most cynical vendors.

One of Linux's strongest suits is as an "interoperability agent" that can allow a company to support multiple platforms, such as Windows, Unix systems, NetWare, and Apple Macintoshes painlessly from one central server.

Inprise's forthcoming Delphi for Linux development tool will have cross-platform capabilities that will enable Visual Basic trained developers to create applications in the Windows environment for Linux operating systems.

Dell, Gateway, Intel, and Compaq - industry powerhouses that once courted Microsoft and its Windows operating system - are turning toward Linux in a flirtation that has escalated into a full-fledged affair.