SGI has demonstrated the first Linux cluster based on Intel's IA-64 Itanium processor, using the Supercomputing 99 show as the venue for the event.

Red Hat is rich in stock value, and indications are that the company wants to move beyond shipping low-cost, shrink-wrapped copies of the Linux operating system into products and services supporting Linux.

Recently I have been reading up on the architecture of Linux and Windows NT. This is partly to make myself a better Penguinista and also to find out why Windows NT Sucks.

So you've got this laptop, and you think "how cool would it be to install Linux on it?" The answer is "very cool," especially if you like to advocate. Nothing like a a demonstration to convince the masses.

MAT is an enterprise monitoring and administration tool. It allows you as an administrator, or authorized individual, to manage a hetrogeneous UNIX network.

Taiwanese firm First International Computer (FIC), said it has signed a deal with Caldera to bundle OpenLinux 2.3 with PC systems it supplies.

Desktop Linux may not be a reality just yet, but as far as Silicon Graphics is concerned, it is going to have to be as the company is staking its future on it. SGI recently admitted that it had failed to find a buyer for its Intel-based workstation business.

Novell, the network software giant, is taking a plunge into open source. The company is putting the finishing touches on a new open source license -- dubbed the Novell Cooperative License -- and reportedly is close to receiving the approval of the open source community.

As a small contribution to the free source movement, allow me to assemble some motley "Rules" of user friendliness, as I step on a few land mines in the Red Hat Linux 6.1 installation and operation. I hear Windows and Linux can run on the same computer with a "dual boot." So let's try that.

After reading the various reports from Comdex two things came to mind: 1. The Linux community is poised to blow itself up. The Tao says there is the Earth, the Heavens, and the 10,000 Things. In the Real World we have the Computer, the User, and the 10,000 Distributions.