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A Quantitative Profile of a Community of Open Source Linux Developers

The University of North Carolina's Open Source Research Team http://metalab.unc.edu/osrt/ has released their first paper analysing the history of contributions to the Linux Archives from 1993 to the present by looking at the Linux Software Maps (LSMs).

How to connect your Linux box to the Internet

Setting up your modem to connect to an Internet Service Provider under Linux via a PPP connection can be a daunting task without some guidance.

Mainsoft mixes NT and Linux

Mainsoft this week announced it is releasing software that allows Windows NT applications to run on the Linux operating system.

The Smallest Rackmount PIII Based Server

TruSOLUTIONS has introduces the World's smallest rackmount Pentium III processor based server With Hot-Swap disk drives designed for Linux and Windows 2000.

TheLinuxShow!!: Linux Scavenger Hunt Party

The Linux(r) Show!! is in the process of planning a Live and Interactive, Linux Scavenger Hunt Party. This will happen the night of October the 26th , as a part of Halloween week (boo)...

The Risks of Closed Source Computing

Linux Kernel Guru Alan Cox: A closed source strategy exposes the company to serious business risk. As many telephony companies have discovered, your OS supplier might suddenly decide to be your competitor.

Corel to demo its version of Linux at Comdex

Corel Corp. will demonstrate its new desktop Linux operating system next month at Comdex in Las Vegas.

FreeBSDCon '99

By every metric that matters, FreeBSDCon is a huge success: everyone's jazzed, no one's bitching, and attendance has exceeded organizers' expectations by a fat margin.

Linux JVM is the fastest of the lot

Tower Technology's TowerJ 3.1.4 for Linux dominates 15 other VMs in both performance and scalability, according to the latest VolanoMark 2.1.2 benchmarks published on October 3 by Volano LLC.

Lotus Fulfills Promise Of Linux

After initially snubbing the open source code operating system, Lotus president Jeff Papows said last January that the Cambridge, England-based company would ship a Linux version of the groupware/messaging system by year-end.