A start-up located near Microsoft's headquarters unveiled an effort to sell super-cheap Linux computers to home consumers.

A recent conference in India offered examples of how FLOSS affects everything from education and health services to internal software markets.

The open-source development community is an international treasure and should be protected as such, said veteran Linux advocate Jon "Maddog" Hall, in a talk in Birmingham that emphasized the role of open-source software outside the United States.

Novell will launch a bundle of its network services running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server later this year.

And in 2004, the entire services stack from Netware will be running on Linux.

Intel has found that a 32-processor Itanium server running Linux is rivaling Windows and Unix servers in database performance, a major accomplishment for the comparatively young operating system.

Local authorities in Newham and Nottingham are expected to migrate more than 10,000 desktop computers from Windows to Linux.

SCO Group on Thursday discovered a clause in a contract that could bolster its potential legal claims against Linux users.

Merrill Lynch research shows that deploying Linux internally that could save the company millions of dollars, an executive at the investment banker said.

Last week Indian President Dr Abdul Kalam called for a halt to the "devastating" impact of proprietary software. He revealed that he had what he called "differences" with the Microsoft founder when the two met last November.

That's one upshot of Thursday's settlement between Microsoft and AOL Time Warner, according to industry analysts who predict that the Netscape browser--currently at version 7.02--will now move from a neglected orphan of AOL Time Warner to a candidate for euthanasia.