TurboLinux(R), Inc., the high performance Linux company, announced today a sales and distribution agreement with Ingram Micro, the world's largest wholesale provider of technology products and services.

Corel Corp. is rapidly emerging as a key player in the Linux retail market in the U.S., but new research suggests the Market has yet to generate significant revenues because total U.S. Linux retail sales are still only about $2 million a month.

By the end of this year, nearly half of resellers surveyed predict that the free operating system Linux will be a viable alternative to Windows for the small-to-midsize company market, according to Reality Research analysis of monthly reseller polls.

There have been a flurry of articles published recently about IBM's System/390 version of Linux. Here, we take a look at where Linux on the mainframe would be most -- and least -- useful.

We put Linux on a test PC, and in eight weeks it never crashed. But are you any closer to ditching Windows than you were six months ago? Here's what you need to know before you decide.

While some see Linux as a low-priced alternative operating system for vendors to push out the bargain basement of their main product lines, computing giant IBM thinks Linux has the power to change the face of business. John Patrick, IBM vice president of Internet technology, calls Linux a "disruptive" technology that will generate improved ways of conducting e-business, displacing older technology.

The BSDI / Walnut Creek merger has raised quite a few questions from people within the BSD community wondering how it will affect them and their favorite operating system developers. We decided to ask them.

Will Linux fork? Journalists have been asking the question of late. The question is legitimate: Unix forked in nasty ways that hurt the whole Unix community and the whole Unix industry. But that was then, this is now, says Red Hat chairman Bob Young. Many reasons for Unix forking don't apply today.

Animeta Systems, one of Taiwanese giant Acer's numerous subsidiaries, claims to have whipped up the world's most compact - it only requires 2MB RAM - and most competitive version of Linux for embedded applications. More important, perhaps, is the fact the group plans to use its new OS to oust Windows in many of the company's products.

At the risk of offending nearly every webhead and geek, it's time for a dose of reality: Linux may not be the competitor to Unix and Windows/2000 that it fancies itself. Why? Because Linux may not be able to support large, complex commercial Web servers as successfully as it does servers in smaller, less demanding Web environments.