In the world of Open Source software and Linux, these two do not have to be restricted to the back of the enterprise. Linux can be as sexy as the next pretty girl walking down the catwalk.

After nine years of running on every possible junkyard configuration of machine and microprocessor, Linux, the little operating system that could, finally made it to the top of the computing mountain this week.

SGI this week launched its first Linux workstations, following rival supplier Hewlett-Packard into the low-cost workstation market.

A 32-processor Linux computer cluster is set to crank out computations in the National Foundation for Functional Brain Imaging's (NFFBI) Albuquerque, N.M. facility.

Linux's march from one man's bedroom to boardrooms around the world was bolstered this week by both popular and corporate support at Toronto's Linux Canada conference.

Red Hat this week released alpha source code to enable software developers to build applications for Intel's IA-64 architecture based on Red Hat's Linux distribution.

There are those who say that Linux has a bigger future in embedded systems than on the desktop. So it's good to know that a few entrenched players in the embedded market seem willing to play nice.

For the most part, end users don't support the government's plan to split up Microsoft Corp. into two companies, according to an exclusive Computerworld poll of IT professionals.

For Jordan Hubbard, President and CEO of FreeBSD Inc., the non-profit company behind the Open Source FreeBSD operating system, the only problem with having a David vs. Goliath mystique is that the Goliath in the FreeBSD storyline is another Open Source operating system: Linux.

Open source leader and CTO of Linuxcare speaks out about business the open source way.