Looking to ride the Linux wave sweeping through Silicon Valley onto Wall Street, VA Linux Systems and Andover.net are expected to begin public trading next week.

S/390 systems running OS/390, VM/ESA or VSE/ESA can now operate as a server for Linux clients, work with a Linux peer, or work with a Linux server expanding the role of the S/390 server in the enterprise.

There are over 500 Debian maintainers today, up from 100 only a few years ago. Wichert Akkerman has been Project Leader for this brilliant, sometimes unruly (but always interesting) gang since February.

With respect to computer Operating Systems, it is generally regarded (when cost is put aside), that UNIX (with now Linux at the fountainhead of that development) is generally the most adanced system-level architecture with the most mature implementation (i.e. Stable).

Redhat should buy Troll Tech and place QT under the LGPL or BSD licenses. Let's face it: they have the money. I doubt that Troll Tech would be TOO antagonistic since they are obviously interested in Free Software (they are giving away their life's blood to support Free Software). And Heaven knows that Redhat has the money.

Now that I've recently reviewed four of the latest leading Linux distributions, it is time to publish a new head-to-head comparison between them - the Second Distribution War if you will.

Generally speaking, most of the hype regarding Linux compares its abilities to run a given task against other operating systems doing the same thing.

Intel and venture capital firm Apax Partners together invested about $12 million in the company, SuSE said in a statement. The funding will be used to set up new sales and support offices across the world and to improve its ability to help companies set up Linux systems, SuSE said.

Sun Microsystems and Inprise on Thursday will announce plans to jointly develop a version of the Java 2 Platform for Linux, sources close to the companies said. The cooperative effort demonstrates that both companies believe Linux is rapidly becoming a legitimate operating system in the enterprise.

Applix, Incorporated, in partnership with Walnut Creek CDROM, have released Applixware Office Solutions in a native FreeBSD binary.