Corel, Inprise In $2.44 Billion Merger With Corel buying Inprise things are definitely heating-up in the world of Linux business. The reason for the buy? Corel previously worked with Cygnus Solutions to port their Windows software to Linux, but now Red Hat (their biggest competitor) owns Cygnus. See what I mean about things heating up.

Updated: Joe Pranevich -- Wonderful World Of Linux 2.4 - "Back On The Table Edition" Joe Pranevich's definitive 2.4 kernel paper has just received an update.

Can Linux Kill Off Microsoft A brilliant article on, why Microsoft have big problems, and why Intel have big problems - from an operating system called Linux, and a revolutionary chip called Crusoe.

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Open Source Guru Says Sun's Starting To Get It Sun annoyed many members of the Linux community (including me) with its sad attempt at open sourcing some of its code with the Sun Community Source Licensing program (developers had to pay Sun royalties for commercial products developed). Now they have a new model called the Industry Standards Source License (developers can now modify and distribute source code and binaries freely). It's still not GPL but it is an improvement.

VA Linux Buys Andover.Net What a gem of a story this is. By far the best this year, indicating that whilst last year was the 'Year of the IPO', this year could very well be the 'Year of Consolidation'.

Linux Today Pictures From LinuxWorld Expo Show Floor 16 pictures taken at the LinuxWorld Expo held in New York.

Transmeta May File For Public Offering This Year Transmeta may try to go public before the end of the year, the company's chief executive said today.