There's nothing quite as instructive as a really BAD example. So let's take a break from talking about great companies -- potential new Rule Makers -- to remind ourselves of how bad it can get if we don't do our homework.

Should we persist in inventing and perfecting mass-appeal Linux systems even if we cannot 'succeed' in the market until all of us are ready? The answer, of course, is 'yes', but with a mind to the principle of Industrial Time Lags. Fortunately, these lags are predictable, and for those planning to ramp up for a Linux service industry infrastructure, this news might save your life.

Recipe for wealth, circa January 2000: Write press release, mention "Linux" prominently throughout. Wait for stock price to soar.

Corel Corporation announced its Corel LINUX OS desktop will be the first Linux operating system to run Windows applications seamlessly over any connection.

In order to have complete trust in the security of an operating system you need to be able to audit what it does. And that means Open Source – and thus Linux.

China will ban use of Microsoft Corp's new Windows 2000 operating system throughout the government in a bid to support indigenous software, an official newspaper reported in editions available on Thursday.

Brad Hughes is the creator of the Blackbox window manager, built with C++, and sharing no common code with any other window manager.

In a shot at both its traditional customers, PC makers and software giant Microsoft, Intel today unveiled plans to market its own brand of Internet access appliances that use the Linux operating system, the open-source competitor to Microsoft's proprietary Windows.

Linux is poised to gain even more momentum in 2000, as shown by the number of Linux initial public offerings that hit the market in the last six months of 1999, as well as the numerous investments large hardware companies have made in this space.

Linux 2.2.14 is the latest update to the Linux kernel tree. The out of the box tree supports the Alpha, PPC, S/390, Sparc and X86 platforms. MIPS is mostly merged but you should obtain the platform specific tree. ARM and M680x0 users should get their platform specific tree.