Intel Corporation today announced it will add its Linux Gigabit driver to the Intel(R) PRO/1000 Gigabit Server Adapter to bring Gigabit Ethernet performance to Linux-based Internet and intranet Web servers, databases, and e-mail servers.

The media is nutso for bigness. All you hear about in the tech press these days is that Linux is attracting big partners like IBM, finding big users like Deja.com, and making big IPO money like RedHat. That's all good, and I'm sincerely grateful for anything that helps me make a living without using Visual Interdev -- but to me, small and raw is where it's all at.

You'll soon see that the Linux 3.x series (still in development as 2.5). Linux 3.x isn't even an operating system! It's an open source "abacus system" which means that you can trade it with your friends and improve your abacus techniques and tell people or even sell your new ideas.

According to reports Ellison's latest vision will capitalise on the momentum behind Linux by creating a slim-line Network Computer that will run the free-source Linux O/S alongside Netscape, a modem and a CD-ROM.

You can't buy advertising this good. When Microsoft takes time out to publish a point-by-point attack of your software product (www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/news/msnw/Linux Myths.asp), you must be on to something.

ATI Technologies Inc. announced that it is fully supporting the development of drivers for the Linux Operating System and is endorsing the open source movement by releasing 2D, 3D and multimedia programming specifications for its industry-leading RAGE graphics technology.

Linux kernel version 2.2.13 has been released and can be downloaded from various mirror sites.

One of the great things about Linux is that it runs on just about anything. Sure, it sings on your Intel PC, but if you're so inclined, Linux can power your SparcStation, Amiga, or Alpha box. Heck, you can even run it on a PalmPilot.

Having successfully developed MainWin for running Windows NT applications on UNIX, Mainsoft announced plans to develop a version of MainWin that will allow Windows applications to run on the Linux OS.

Things are hotting up in the Linux skills certification world. Red Hat says that it is to offer certification for its own distribution version of the operating system and courses start next month.