Corel will incorporate the GraphOn Bridges product into the Corel LINUX OS package to enable users to run Windows applications over any connection.

After spending a few minutes getting the last of my personal stuff off the hard drive and writing down the IRQs of all the hardware (hey, you just never know), I popped in my LinuxMandrake CD, rebooted, set the BIOS to boot off a CD first, and began the installation process.

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A year ago the thought of Linux entering the consumer market was at best a distant dream, one not shared by the computer industry or even the majority of Linux users. But things change quickly, and a visit to the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES), held Jan. 6-10 in Las Vegas, showed that while Linux still has a negligible presence in the consumer world, things are on the upswing.

A few weeks ago, Bloomberg Financial published a story rumoring an imminent purchase of Be by Red Hat Software. Although the rumors had still not been substantiated as of this writing, their effect on the community of BeOS and Linux users (not to mention Be's stock price) was immediate.

UK-based computer manufacturer Space-Time Sytems has unveiled a range of pre-configured Debian GNU/Hurd PC systems.

Red Hat, Inc., the market leader in open source solutions, announced the completion of the acquisitions of privately-held Cygnus Solutions and Hell's Kitchen Systems, Inc.

The XFree86 Project, Inc is a non-profit organisation that produces XFree86. XFree86 is a freely redistributable implementation of the X Window System that runs on UNIX(R) and UNIX-like operating systems (and OS/2).

Investors will find out if Wall Street remains bullish on Linux as Caldera Systems Inc. gets set for its initial public offering -- possibly as early as this week, according to sources. Caldera, of Orem, Utah, will also announce today it has secured about $30 million in additional funding, the sources said, from the likes of Sun Microsystems Inc., Novell Inc. and other major technology companies.

Sam Palmisano, head of the IBM server group, said in an interview on Friday that he was committed to making all of IBM's major computer product lines Linux-ready, combining fragmented efforts IBM had made in this direction last year.