VA Linux has made an investment in MySQL and will work with MySQL on advanced support and service programs. VA Linux will also host MySQL as a project on SourceForge.net.

A trucking company has deployed diskless PCs across all desktop's. Seventeen simultaneous users are supported simultaneously with full GUI application functionality using a 233-MHz Pentium II server running Linux.

It had all the sources! It even had X11! It fit neatly into my new 386SX/25 laptop with 5MB of memory! It was close enough to UNIX for me to give in completely!

Like it or not, major hardware vendors and corporates don't want to support five or more flavors of Linux. As Red Hat and Caldera continue to gain critical mass, look for the rest of the Linux providers to lose ground.

IBM recently released seven voice recognition products, one of which loans its voice to the Linux operating system.

She uses off-the-shelf commodity hardware running virtually any Linux distribution. She targets enterprise computing environments and she's just been released under the GNU General Public License.

The remedies placed on Microsoft could be bad news for players in the Linux market. Both desktop and personal productivity players as well as Linux hardware startups could face more competition.

Red Hat will help Intel develop a "cookbook" of pre-packaged Internet server application recipes optimized for Intel's OEMs. Red Hat will be the first Linux solutions provider to do so.

Iomega has signed a development support agreement with Red Hat to develop Linux support for Iomega drives in future versions of the company's IomegaWare software.

ZipSpeak is a talking mini-distribution of Linux for blind and visually impaired people, based on the ZipSlack distribution and the Speakup screen reader.