"Linux captured the No. 2 spot as desktop operating system in 2003," said IDC analyst Dan Kusnetzky. By 2007, IDC estimates that Linux will have 6 percent of the desktop market in terms of units.

Yellow Dog Linux is coming closer to final release with the 4.0-RC1 release.

IBM Cloudscape is an open standards small footprint database that tightly embeds into Java apps.

One and a half months after its original beta launch, GnomeFiles, our GTK+ software repository, is now proclaimed v1.0. There are a few things still to do on the Developer's section (e.g. let devs upload application icons directly to our server), but the user's front-end is now feature complete.

Szulik, who delivered the opening keynote Tuesday for the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, sat down with reporters and editors from CNET News.com for a broad-ranging conversation about the company and the open-source business.

To make sure the company gets "it right," Novell is taking its time with its Linux desktop, demoing only a version of it at LinuxWorld for the purpose of user reaction. Elsewhere, Miguel de Icaza has been accused of betraying the open-source dream, but Ximian cofounder Miguel de Icaza believes corporate partnerships are the best way to realize it.

A new feature of the Solaris 10 Operating System lets you run Linux applications, unchanged, on their own or side by side with Solaris applications.

DVD copying software maker 321 Studios has closed its doors, driven out of business by a succession of court decisions that said its most popular product was illegal to distribute. Several courts subsequently ruled that even if consumers might have a theoretical right to make their own personal DVD copies, 321 Studios could not sell tools that would help them break through that copy protection.

Novell today introduced SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9, with significant performance, scalability, manageability and security enhancements designed to handle corporate workgroup and data center requirements with ease. With this release, Novell offers the first enterprise-class Linux server built on the new Linux 2.6 kernel. Novell ZENworks Linux Management further strengthens this offering by adding the change and configuration solution for the enterprise.

Sun Microsystems' Looking Glass has been released for testing. This is a Beta and bugs are expected.

The IBM PowerPC 970 CPUs are well-designed, high-performance chips that ship in millions of end-user systems under Apple Computers' Power Macintosh G5 moniker. These CPUs greatly lower the bar for 64-bit computing on the desktop and on small servers. Currently, Terra Soft's beta Y-HPC is one of only two 64-bit Linuxes that run on G5s. As their names imply, the G5-enabled betas -- both 32- and 64-bit versions -- are for evaluation only. This article is an early look at the promise of Linux on a G5 and is intended for developers interested in trying out this combination in anticipation of production-ready releases to come.

It's time for the United States to begin an era of economic sharing that will reduce resentment of the country and could mean a larger computer technology market for everyone, Red Hat Chief Executive Matthew Szulik said Tuesday.

Microsoft is shifting about 70 technical staff from its research unit into its Windows effort as the company gears up for Longhorn, the next major release of the operating system.

The Abstract User Interface Markup Language toolkit is a rapid-development tool to assist developers in writing GUIs to run as either Swing applications or on the Web -- without any changes. This article takes you on a tour of the AUIML toolkit, which includes rapid prototyping with the eclipse-based Visual Builder, DataBean implementation, built-in data validation, built-in internationalization and more.