Present at the interview were our fearless leaders, Linus 'Linux' Torvalds, and Alan 'Kernel Hacker' Cox, the number one and two men in the Linux hierarchy, and a freelance journalist with nothing to lose and everything to gain.

IBM’s S/390 is gaining ground with e-commerce customers, and Big Blue credits Linux with helping to breathe new life into the mainframe 'dinosaur.'

Based on the enthusiastic response from corporate customers the last two months, IBM deepened its commitment to Linux on Friday with the announcement of a pilot project to work with selected users and developers to create applications that exploit its S/390 mainframe.

Linux will play an increasingly important role in IBM, eventually displacing some or all of IBM's proprietary operating systems...

Every owner of a business—small, home, or otherwise—struggles with the same questions when thinking about updating their three to five year old computer systems: why, what, how and when to migrate. Depending on what you do, it’s very likely that the benefits of migrating to Linux far outweigh the costs and speed bumps incurred along the way.

This whitepaper, by LinuxDevices.com founder Rick Lehrbaum, contemplates the looming battle between Linux and Windows over which OS will become the platform of choice in thousands of new 'intelligent interconnected devices' to be designed during the next few years -- and offers ten reasons why Linux will win.

So why exactly is BSD, or any other open source project, better than competing commercial developments? The answer to this, as to all of the important questions in life, is so complicated it's simple.

Recently, on a major computer industry website an interesting article was posted, regarding Linux security. The article starts off by stating that there is "growing concern that the Linux operating system suffers from major security problems that could prevent its widespread adoption in the enterprise environment.". This is just false.

A speaking version of Linux, designed to give the visually impaired an experience of open source computing, has been developed.

All the rage among programmers, Linux is now poised for battle with Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) at the Point-of-Sale Terminal, according to a new study by IHL Consulting Group.