Corel took a baby step toward creating a consumer version of Linux on Tuesday by releasing a beta of Corel Linux to a limited group of developers. The move was met by instant protest from open source advocates opposed to its licensing restrictions.

Merlin Software Technologies Inc., a software publishing company providing unique Linux and Unix-based software programs announced today that the latest version of PerfectBACKUP+, the world's fastest system back-up program is now available to users around the world, for free.

LinuxOne Inc., an emerging developer and provider of open source software and services, registered to sell 3 million common shares in an initial public offering.

India-based Web site offers raft of free OSes

Corel will release a beta version of its Linux operating system to beta testers, said company CEO Michael Cowpland.

Oracle and Red Hat jointly announced that Oracle has certified Oracle8ion Red Hat Linux , and that future Oracle product releases will also be certified on Red Hat as they become available.

Caldera Systems, Inc. entered into a distribution deal with Tech Data Corp. fueling speculation that the Orem, Utah-based Linux vendor could be "the next Red Hat."

Sun Microsystems is using Linux to fight against Microsoft, but it is really doing anything to support Linux?

This is a Linux only search engine and spider, featuring just about everything that AltaVista does, but the database only contains Linux related websites.

SGI has released the open source community Jessie, an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) framework that will simplify and accelerate the creation of Linux applications.