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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Linare Corporation, a manufacturer of software and hardware focused on the Linux platform, now makes it easy for businesses to take part in the rapidly growing Linux revolution. Starting this week, Linare Linux Pro Edition will be available to corporate/government sector customers for $40 per license.