8. Linux Is All Hype - Linux will get mountains of press, including articles in venerable mainstream newspapers hailing the new era of open source. But virtually no consumers will use it.

The Linux community as a whole has ignored one major aspect of making Linux more popular, and that is getting it into schools and letting students work with it.

Jon Lasser began the Bastille Linux Project in order to harden the security of Red Hat Linux, the distribution he uses at work.

We at freshmeat regularly receive submissions of Windows software for inclusion in the appindex. Sometimes it's something that obviously doesn't belong here, like a commercially-licensed closed-sourced word processor.

An NRI from Bangalore has developed India's first commercial supercomputer based on the Linux operating system. It costs just a fraction of what a conventional Cray does but works nearly as fast.

Corel Corp. shares jumped almost 33 per cent yesterday after the software maker said it plans to release a Linux operating system later this year that can run some Windows applications.

Linux and other "free" operating systems will more than double their market share to 9% of corporate PCs over the next two years, a new survey from Survey.com predicts.

Rumours that China will adopt Linux as its primary operating system in order to free itself ideologically from dependence on an American company are abounding.

Dave Whitinger helped start Linux Today in 1998, and Internet.com bought the publication in October 1999, one of a series of acquisitions. Now Whitinger has launched Linsight, which currently features a searchable schedule of Linux-related events and a summary of what Linux training and certification programs are available.

Commercial software has finally begun to hit the shelves for Linux, and this gives people a whole new reason to consider the operating system. Many of the large software companies that are beginning to release Linux versions of their applications are Adobe with Frame Maker, Corel with WordPerfect, id Software with Quake, and others.