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Linux is always making news – and the penguin has developed a knack of showing up in places you would least expect. What’s more, it’s adapting to the mission critical enterprise front with gusto, shedding its earlier avatar of a cost cutting alternative for mediocre functions that didn’t require too much mending.

They call him Microsoft's sock puppet, the most hated man in high tech. SCO's Darl McBride is fighting a war for the future of free software. And he wants to make you pay.

The sale of Linux-based PCs under the PC Gemilang project is a roaring success, according to the Association of the Computer and Multimedia Industry of Malaysia (Pikom).

The Gelato Organisation said it gathered together 30 different members at the University of Illinois recently to meet and exchange research advances for Linux on the Itanium 2 microprocessor.

Other than Linux, all the other open-source projects move along at a rate best described as glacial. Even principals in the community are sometimes shocked at the slowness of open-source development. This probably is a function of how motivation and lack of fear work among open-source developers. Often they're motivated like hobbyists. And there is no fear to drive anyone to do anything — no fear of getting fired or yelled at by a mean boss.

Sub500.com to Stock Exclusively Linspire-based Laptops, Desktops and Software

Face it, you can't become any kind of respectable administrator without knowing a decent bit about shell scripting. You don't have to be the "Bashmeister General" or anything, but having a firm grasp on the basics will get you out of a lot of jams, and provide a foundation for furthering your experience and your skill. In this article we'll cover some programming functionality of the bash shell.

Linux Journal's least technical editor reports on the road to Laptopia with his new ThinkPad T40.

According to a report by research and analysis firm Netcraft (netcraft.com), the fallout from a couple of recent controversies over free blogging services is leading some bloggers to consider shifting to paid services, while also generating interest in free and open-source blogging software.

Linux and AdvancedTCA (ATCA) are emerging as open industry standards that the telecom equipment industry will embrace as it migrates away from proprietary software and hardware architectures in its quest for faster time-to-market and reduced costs. Telecom equipment manufacturers (TEMs) RadiSys and Kontron are separately demonstrating ATCA hardware at this week's SuperComm trade show in Chicago, while telecom software vendor Ulticom is showing off signaling software for Linux/ATCA systems. Intel, meanwhile, reports that its modular, standards-based Linux platforms are being used by a large TEM and separately by a telco operator to develop new products and services.

Now is the time to begin implementing open source IP telephony. Here's why:

In theory, an open source IP telephony system will increase the demand for IP telephony, create better interoperability between IP phone systems and drive down the cost of IP telephony by putting price pressure on the traditional phone system vendors. An open source model for IP telephony might yield these results at some time in the distant future, but it will have no such effect in the short term, for a number of reasons.

Its time to get cracking for Linux geeks. Red Hat today announced a new master level program for its Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) course, specifically designed for experienced Linux system administrators who have already breezed past the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) examination.