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Although Linux is growing meekly when it comes to end-user usage and interaction, the overall experience of using a Linux distribution has turned out to be a positive one for numerous beginners. In recent years, Linux has made advancements in leaps and bounds, which has led to its adoption by many corporate users as well as regular desktop users. Though it’s still not in a perfect state, the rapid pace of development in numerous areas of Linux promises a bright future, nonetheless.

Not so long ago, adopting Linux for any endeavor was a radical idea. But for the radicals — early adopters and those asked to implement bleeding-edge technologies during the Internet boom — Linux was a perfectly reasonable solution. Paired with Samba, Linux offered more robust file and print services than Windows. Combined with the Apache web server, Linux powered web sites. The latter mixed with OSS tools such as Perl and MySQL transformed the Internet into a World Wide Web of possibilities.

Linux consultant, Tom Adesltein, has begun a short series for Linux Journal online which offers a number of suggestions for tweaking the performance of the Linux desktop.

Most of you might already know the cluster project OpenMosix. OpenMosix has been around for awhile now and has worked with many vendors to create a “patch” for the 2.4 Kernel tree. It also makes userland utilities for this cluster patch. But what a lot of people don't know is that they have started to work on a patch for the 2.6 Kernel tree. For a lot of users that now use the 2.6 Kernel this gives them the opportunity to run cluster at home or at work without having to buy very expensive equipment. There is one site that now makes it easy to patch your kernel now for the 2.6 Kernel tree. What would be nice is to see this in the main line tree, if anything in the 2.7 tree.

When I read the article on Slashdot & OSNews that Linare was putting out a sub-$500 notebook, I immediately jumped on the deal. I purchased a laptop directly from Linare in early February. Their site stated that I would receive the laptop in 2-4 weeks. I waited in anticipation.

White Box is the latest project to release a Linux distribution rebuilt from source RPM packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.

Linux Insider has a short article detailing how various government labs and agencies have used Linux as the backbone of various projects: some truly skunkworks, and some large and high-profile. Projects range from early clustering work at Goddard to the FBI's Emergency Response Network.

Jimmy Wennlund has been doing to Linux what Apple has done to Tiger: Make it boot faster. Jimmy wrote initng, a replacement for the Sys-V style "init" application. It allows for better service dependency checking and will start services in a highly parallel fashion, dramatically speeding up the Linux boot process.

Terra Soft Solutions, Inc. is pleased to announce the immediate release of 64-bit Yellow Dog Linux.

Version 2.1 of CRUX, the lightweight keep-it-simple Linux distribution, has been released. It's based on the 2.6.11.7 kernel, Glibc 2.3.5, GCC 3.4.3 and X.org's X11 6.8.2. Changelog.

Now that he has covered why cluster computing is a great idea and what's involved in doing it in Parts 1 & 2, Rob Lucke concludes this series by describing how to take those first steps on the road to building a Linux cluster for your organization.

One of the maintainers of the Linux kernel has said that a lack of 'credit or money or anything' for those who test the open source OS could threaten its long-term stability.

Linux founder and leader Linus Torvalds has launched a new tool, called 'Git', to manage his software project, after a dispute led him to drop the previous system.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 was released on February 14th, CentOS issued its cloned version two weeks later on March 2nd. Read the review here.