In the first of this series we look at using Linux for embedded devices. We ask whether it is a viable platform, and whether it will have any success in the market.

At Sun's earnings briefing yesterday Scott McNealy allegedly said the he didn't see the company making a large Linux push, preferring instead to stick with Solaris.

When the discussion comes around to Linux, it's often about Linux vs. Windows or NetWare, or another more established operating system. But what about Linux vs. Linux?

German enterprise resource planning software giant SAP AG has made SAP R/3, a major component of the company's mySAP.com site, available for the Linux operating system, the company announced.

A day after Transmeta unveiled the long-awaited Crusoe processor series, S3 on Thursday stepped up to the plate and announced it will design and produce Crusoe-powered Internet appliances based on the open-source Linux operating system.

American applications server software vendor, Citrix Systems, has announced plans to give Unix applications similar deployment capabilities across networks as Windows-based systems.

The Linux operating system has been getting a lot of publicity lately, and a growing number of companies, impressed by its reliability, are using Linux as the foundation for some of their computer systems.

IBM said last week it would be pushing harder than ever to promote upstart operating system Linux.

Security is an increasingly big worry for system and network administrators. Whether you just have one machine with your personal work on it, or a large network with dozens of servers and hundreds of clients, there is one common problem.

I've been getting tons of email about the trademark thing due to the action of stopping the auctioning off of linux-related names, so instead of just answering individually (which was how I started out), I'll just send out a more generic email.