Why Linux is the platform of choice for many Java developers. Cygnus, IBM, and Sun are among the vendors who have fueled the Java-on-Linux fever. Rick Cook examines the who, what, and why of this phenomenon.

The year is 2010 and when you boot up your PC, you're no longer greeted with a four-color Windows pane logo, but instead you see Tux, the fat black-and-white Linux penguin. Most of your applications are different from ten years ago, but one program from your Windows days now runs on your Linux box. It bears the telltale green, orange, yellow, and blue puzzle-piece logo: It's Microsoft Office.

Corel Corporation announced the schedule for the Corel Linux Roadshow 2000, the North American tour featuring WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux and Corel LINUX OS.

Spirits are high, projections robust, and confidence unchecked that Linux will continue its forward momentum. That was the attitude among those in CeBIT's first-ever Linux Pavilion, which closed Wednesday after housing 16 Linux companies including Red Hat, SuSE, Caldera Systems, and TurboLinux.

What's the difference between Windows and Linux? LinuxWorld associate editor John Pancharian scoped out the Windows 2000 show and discovered a number of differences that may surprise and amuse you.

In keeping with the TUCOWS look and feel, Ext2.org, the Linux web-zine, has become TUCOWS Linux News, a part of the TUCOWS Network News site.

In an interview with Computerworld's Joseph Maglitta in April of 1999, president and CEO of the Santa Cruz Operation Doug Michels lamented the fact that, while his company had been considered a UNIX trailblazer by many, the arrival of the Linux Phenomenon has, at times, seemed to relegate SCO to the status of old, gray mare.

Like WWII soldiers stranded on a Pacific island, Windows 2000 and Linux are fighting a pointless battle in a war that's already over. Pleasantly, for consumers at least, they both won. So did BeOS, MacOS, PalmOS and the rest.

Despite the attention it has received at the CeBit show, even the staunchest supporters of the Linux operating system concede that it is still a niche product for the desktop market.

With wireless radio technology more than a century old, the concept of picking up an audio broadcast via an Internet-connected device seems about as cutting edge as, well, the steam turbine.