For years, BSDers have been looking for ways to help their favorite OS penetrate the office and home marketplace. They have been ignored mainly because of the lack of an office suite with word processor and spreadsheet and presentation package. Given the ubiquitous popularity of a certain other OS and office productivity product, compatibility with the existing document base is also a big factor.

Is Windows 2000 becoming a serious challenge for IBM? How does Linux fit into the IBM strategy? What does the future hold for Lotus and Tivoli? How successful is IBM's software business? At the beginning of December in Somers, New York, c't discussed these subjects with John M. Thompson, Senior Vice President and Group Executive of the IBM Software Group.

FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE is available at ftp.FreeBSD.org and various FTP mirror sites throughout the world. It can also be ordered on CD from The FreeBSD Mall.

To provide additional vehicles for pre-silicon validation and post-silicon debug of the Intel Itanium processor, we ported two operating system kernels to the IA-64 architecture. The Mach3 microkernel was ported first, followed by the Linux 2.2.0 kernel, and these have helped track the overall health of the Itanium RTL model for the last two years.

It's tough. It's fast. It's free. It's Linux -- the most hyped operating system since OS/2. Tech heads love it, but does Linux really mean business? There's only one person who can answer that question: you.

WHEN YOU talk about the free operating system the first thing that comes to mind is Linux. Linux, however, is not the first to offer a free operating system and source code. A lesser known operating system developed in 1970 at the University of California, Berkeley, called the BSD (Berkeley Software Design) is, in fact, the oldest free operating system.

Communication Intelligence Corp. (CIC) on Tuesday announced that it will co-develop a Linux-based handwriting recognition and electronic-signature software development kit that company officials believe could result in the creation of a range of different products for several categories of wireless Internet appliances.

Talk about your sore winners. Before the first day of trading for VA Linux had even ended, free software programmers were already kvetching about whether the astonishing stock market ascent of the company might spell eventual doom for their world.

This article in response to the page putup on Microsoft's Website on how to remove Linux and Install Windows NT/2000. It describes how you can remove the Windows NT or Windows 2000 from your computer, and install Linux.

Microsoft has put up a page on the support section of their Web site on how to remove Linux and install Windows 2000 or Windows NT.