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There are a lot of reasons to use Linux. You've seen people write or heard people speak about its use in clusters, offices, Web servers, and other common uses. One thing that hasn't been talked about enough is its utility as a superior tool for recovering data from other operating systems.

The anti-virus business is an interesting one. On the one hand, it's amazingly competitive on a worldwide basis, even if Symantec dominates the U.S. consumer market; there are a lot of companies in this business. But it's also a disappointing business technologically. The companies are not out to solve a problem as much as to acquire an annuity stream in the form of subscriptions for signature updates.

When coding a program, one of the best ways to show users that an event has happened is to produce sounds. That's why sound is now present in almost every program. Every operating system has different sound systems and APIs to access the sound card, so that no low-level coding is required to use the sound device. Programmers have many different choices concerning which system to use, especially under Linux -- and maybe that's the problem. This article will illustrate free sound architectures under Linux, as well as the different interfaces a programmer can use.

While developers at Microsoft Corp. may be celebrating that they finished work on Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows XP, IT departments around the world now face the question on whether they should update their systems, or not.

IBM officials scoffed at Sun Microsystems Inc.'s intimations last week that it would buy Novell Inc., calling the rhetoric nothing more than an attempt to disrupt IBM and its customers.

An upgrade to CrossOver Office makes the newest version of Xandros Desktop worth a look.

Even as commercial search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN Search grow more dominant, a new distributed search engine with the unglamorous name Grub is taking a different tack. Grub aims to take participants' unused bandwidth and CPU cycles to crawl more than 10 billion Web documents and maintain an up-to-date index of the Web.

Tech analysis: Novell's open-source release opens door to cross-platform support.

LinuxBeta.com's screenshot slideshow of SimplyMEPIS 2004 Release Candidate 3 was posted on 2004-08-08.

Sure, you can get on-line from a hot-spot Internet cafe or conference center. But when you're in a cold spot and want your mail anyway, try making a connection through your GSM mobile phone—no cables required.

With Sun's decision to release Project Looking Glass under the GPL, the project took the first step toward being more than a fancy trade-show demo.

The following is a screenshot slideshow of Mandrakelinux 10.1 beta 1 posted on LinuxBeta.com on 2004-08-04.

2.4 stable Linux kernel maintainer Marcelo Tosatti released the official 2.4.27 kernel, unchanged from the earlier 2.4.27-rc6 release candidate. The release announcement highlighted six security issues that are fixed in this latest kernel. Read on for the full changelog.

Deploying Novell Linux desktops in the enterprise is one step closer to reality with the pending launch of the Utah-based company's software due out this Fall, according to Novell executives at LinuxWorld this week. Over the past several months Novell has been releasing updated products, merging software from their Ximian and SuSE acquisitions that help IT easily integrate and manage Linux desktops in the enterprise.

According to the roadmap, Firefox 0.9 was supposed to be feature complete, leaving the time between this and 1.0 to be dedicated to final touches. However, during the last weeks several nice enhancements have been added including a trio of new features

Continuing the series of articles previewing KDE's World Summit, aKademy (running from August 21st to 29th), Tom Chance interviewed Matthias Ettrich, the founder of the KDE project, the creator of the LyX document-processor, and an employee of Trolltech. At aKademy he will be talking about how to design intelligent, Qt-style APIs. I asked him for his thoughts about the status of the KDE project, its achievements, and what he is looking forward to in aKademy. You can read the previous interview with Nils Magnus of LinuxTag here.

Unlike the glittering spectacle of JavaOne and Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, the O’Reilly Open Source Convention hums so quietly in the catacombs of a Portland, Ore., waterfront hotel that even the hotel’s guests aren’t aware of it. Attendees drive long distances, bunk many to a room, and put their lives on hold to get here. It’s remarkable considering that, on paper, many in attendance can’t afford to be here. But they show up anyway.