Red Hat, Inc. announced the formation of a new non-profit organization, the Red Hat Center for Open Source, that will sponsor, support, promote and engage in a wide range of scientific and educational projects intended to advance the social principles of open source for the greater good of the general public.

I asked my mother if she wanted to try Linux on the computer. She said "What's that?" I gave her a laymen's description of Linux, and the ways it's different from Windows.

Digi International, Inc. announced that it has joined with Red Hat in its Developer Partnership Program. As part of the Developer Partner Program, Digi and Red Hat will begin configuring, testing and certifying a variety of complete communications solutions which incorporate Red Hat Linux, Digi communications adapters, third-party software and industry-standard hardware platforms.

Corel Corporation announced its first major Linux OEM alliance, which will see its Linux operating system, Corel LINUX, bundled with every computer motherboard package shipped worldwide by the PC Chips group of companies.

X10.com and Andover.net are looking for 13,000 web builders who have what it takes to participate in a free test of the FireCracker home control starter kit, an introduction to the home of the future where electrical devices are controlled via remote control.

It is now just about exactly a year since the Halloween Documents were first released upon an unsuspecting world. Many things have changed; Linux 2.2 has gone from promise to memory, the Halloween Documents' author has quit Microsoft to go to work for a Linux-based startup.

Traditionally, application servers have not been players in the Linux world. Designed for enterprises to shuffle data from big iron and big databases to the Web-enabled end user, application servers are creatures of UNIX servers and Java-oriented companies.

Linux is, of course, Linux. Popular opinion says Linux is for Internet protocol applications, mail servers, Web servers, development and a lot of other IS stuff. Linux people, of course, use Linux for that and everything else they need to do.

To the ancient Greeks, a daemon was a protective spirit that presided over a person’s destiny. In UNIX circles, however, daemon stands for Disk And Execution MONitor. Daemons are server processes that are responsible for offering certain services.

What message do you give your children when you raise them on Windows? You teach them that they should never question authority or monopoly, that "only experts can fix software" and that they should never, ever expect to get under the hood and fix things themselves without expensive training and proper certification. Using open source software, you teach co-operation and community, you teach them that everyone is a participant..