How is Linux to avoid "forking"? The answer is simple, it can't. The requirements of a platform like a mainframe are not the same as the requirements of the desktop or the handheld.

Consumers are likely to have their first hands-on experience with Linux on webpads, IAs and PDAs. Since the devices will be simplified in their functions it is an excellent time to show how Linux can be a useful non-geek tool.

Sources say that the progress on the Microsoft 64-bit port is slower than expected. If Win64 isn't delivered on time then Linux and Monterey are likely to be Intel's best hope.

The way to conquer the desktop is not only to provide a good alternative on the Linux side, but to place that same alternative on the Windows side.

If there weren't enough reasons to use Linux in the enterprise these days, Linux has now firmly established itself in the rarefied air at the top of the computing world in bleeding-edge supercomputers.

Intel will release a new software developer kit that could allow vendors to offer Linux-based Internet appliances and home networking products based on Universal Plug and Play. UPnP enables devices to automatically identify and configure themselves when they are connected to a network.

The Linux operating system has helped scientists in Cambridge to decode the 34 million chemical 'letters' that constitute a human chomosome.

IBM's LVMS adds significantly more complexity between the filesystem and the physical devices, and results in an environment that is difficult to understand and harder to precisely control.

IBM said it has developed a breakthrough technology that allows its computers to run e-business software written for the free Linux operating system, without actually using the system.

Linux community organises against software legislation they say will damage Europe.