HBE Software today announced OpenDesk.com, the first free, Open Source Internet workspace. OpenDesk.com aims to revolutionize the way software is developed, distributed and used.

The Package Guide contains information on the core packages of the RedHat, SuSE, Caldera and Debian distributions for the Intel platform.

Linux use is growing faster than a penguin in a herring fishery. However, there were many issues that are needed to be fixed before a wider audience could effectively use our beloved operating system.

Linux India, the organisation of Linux User Groups in India, today announced its participation in the Linux Pavilion of Bangalore IT.COM '99, to be held on November 1-5 in Bangalore, India.

A Lintel alliance would make as much sense to Intel as a Wintel one. And if Linux takes off on the desktop it will make an awful lot more sense than a Wintel one.

Sometimes, the most remarkable events in life are unintentional. Such is the case with Linux, which started out as a student's hobby but has quietly become in the past eight years one of the world's fastest-growing operating systems.

Not in the near future. Forget about Bill Gates, even the Linux creator Linus Torvalds wouldn't hope so. However, riding on the anti-MS wave and backed by leading hardware and software vendors like IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Compaq and Dell, Linux has lately picked up an amazing amount of mindshare spanning corporates, end-users, ISPs and geeks.

Internet.com the E-Business and Internet Technology Network, today announced that it has acquired LinuxCentral.com, a leading e-commerce site which sells hardware, software and other products geared for the Linux and Open Source community.

The Linux business model is a very viable one. By supplying the operating system at no charge, many upstart companies have a reliable system which would not be possible otherwise with established solutions like Windows NT, Sun Solaris or the wide-ranging choices of Unix solutions from IBM or HP.

QCad, the user-friendly CAD system for Linux is distributed under GPL now.