Future Publishing, Britain's fourth largest consumer magazine publisher, is launching a new Linux magazine, called LINUX ANSWERS.

In an effort to bring graphics news and issues to readers more quickly, Michael J. Hammel, author of the Graphics Muse column in the Linux Gazette and TheGimp.com web site, has launched a new Graphics Muse web site - Graphics-Muse.com.

Linux could be coming soon to a desktop near you. Corel will launch its desktop version of the operating system on November 15, company officials said on Monday.

There are groups within Microsoft that have been advocating for the past few months that Windows CE 3.0 should go open source to compete with Linux.

British outfit Bloor Research has -- "by coincidence," it says -- intervened in the Linux versus NT wrangle with some tests of its own. The results of these, Bloor says, show that Linux is superior to NT in six of nine categories devised to test the two "from the standpoint of how they operated in practice to support real applications."

Linux is moving to the consumer market - and interested parties will soon find some versions of the operating system at their local software outlets and even their neighborhood bookstores.

Caldera has done it again. Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 not only continues to leapfrog over all other Linux distributions for ease of installation; it also proves, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that Linux can be easier to install than Windows.

The Queen has just become the latest and most prominent supporter of Linux, the "free" Open Source version of the Unix computer operating system.

What Linus Torvalds jokingly referred to as World Domination is being seriously considered by many as an actual possibility. Why its unlikely to happen. And why it isn't necessary.

The dearth of business applications for Linux could become a problem of the past, if MainSoft Corp. has its way. MainSoft is a somewhat unlikely white knight, however, as the company is a close Microsoft partner and Windows source code licensee.