Linux has been making waves last year, especially in North Asia. Governments from China, Korea, and Japan have placed their trust in Linux by teaming up to create their own Linux OS version.

Novell Inc. has decided to follow Hewlett-Packard Co.'s lead and indemnify its enterprise Linux customers against possible legal action by The SCO Group and/or others.

SGI announced a new, low-cost Itanium 2-based Linux server, the Altix 350. The new $12,199 machine will dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of shared-memory superclusters -- supercomputers that run a single Linux system image spanning many processors.

Given all the excitement around open-source databases, now is a good time to take a look at which of the two most popular options—MySQL and PostgreSQL—is a "better" choice. Of course, there's no quicker way to get third-degree burns from a flame war than to imply that one database is "best." Each has their own set of devotees, and both groups are vocal and devoted, and both can give ample reasons why their choice is the right choice.

Red Hat, Inc. announced that it would assign all of its copyrights in the eCos open source operating system to the Free Software Foundation (FSF).

Cost, adaptability, and security concerns have more IT managers ditching Windows for open-source software.

Sections of the press last year that Big Blue was firmly committed to moving to a Linux desktop environment, and we now have confirmation in the form of an IBM memo that this is going to happen.

The HackFest is a feature of the Linux.conf.au conference, which touts itself as one of three international grassroots Linux conferences worldwide. The conference--of which more than 450 delegates are believed to have confirmed their attendance--is being held from January 14-17 at the University of Adelaide.

Top programmers on Wednesday released a major update to Linux, version 2.6.0, a change that's expected to help carry the open-source operating system into new markets.

A recent SG Cowen Securities survey of more than 500 North American IT users found that more than 80 percent of respondents were currently using Linux and that more than half planned to increase their use of the open-source operating system within the next two years.