Helius,a Utah-based broadband satellite applications developer, intends to base its new gateway service on Caldera's OpenLinux, less than a month after announcing a line of satellite routers designed with Lineo's help.

Deckchair.com has scrapped its original flight search engine tool, powered by Microsoft's Windows NT and SQL Server, in favour of a Linux version of IBM's DB2 Universal Database.

There's a reason the Mac is so successful among creative types, and it's not just the translucent plastic.

The greatest advantages to consumers flow from Open Standards and cheap, interchangeable, commodity components. Java and Open Source are complementary technologies that work towards this goal.

After four years of development Linux lovers everywhere will soon have their own PDA in the form of the iPaq H3600. And what's more, the Linux handheld can show up the rest of the market's competitors.

Intel will enter the increasingly crowded field for Internet appliances with the Dot.Station, a countertop terminal powered by Red Hat Linux that lets people surf the Web, exchange emails and make phone calls.

In his working class hometown of Grandview, Ellis has been using Linux to put together a network for a neighborhood school. Because of the expense involved with Windows and the slow computers he had to work with, he found Linux to be a great alternative.

Immunix OS 6.2 is based on Red Hat 6.2, but with all C source-available programs re-compiled with the StackGuard compiler. The result is a system that is fundamentally compatible with Red Hat Linux, but is secured against a majority of all Internet security attacks.

Despite a few rough edges, a growing number of companies are adopting streaming media, and starting to look at running it on Linux.

A large part of the Linux development community is working to ensure that Linux is ready for the next generation of superfast hardware platforms.