While Microsoft basks in Windows 7 glory, Linux vendor Red Hat hit a milestone yesterday when its share price rose above Microsoft's.

IT execs looking to open source options, says Novell.

A Lenovo analyst has declared his disinterest in Linux, claiming that Microsoft is easier and better to use for the consumer and that Linux is too technical to ever take off. Agree?

Linux is turning up in everything from netbooks to Dell PCs, but is it actually fit to replace Windows? Stuart Turton spends a week with Linux to find out.

Linux bosses have hinted that there will be a new netbook based on the Linux Moblin OS announced this week at the Intel Developer Forum

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Stuart Turton spends the second day of his one week odyssey with Linux, battling Fedora and DVD playback troubles, while trying valiantly not to go back to the relative 'safety' of Vista, as frustrations start to boil over.

Microsoft has named Linux distributors Red Hat and Canonical as competitors to its Windows client business in its annual filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Stuart Turton spends the third day of his one week odyssey with Linux, fighting Fedora monitor hassles, wishing for Ubuntu at work and discovers that forums can be a Linux user's new best friend.

More digital Swiss Army knife software, including Linux utilities and tools that are so useful you won't know how you ever did without them

While Window 7 was stealing all the limelight yesterday Canonical made available the Release Candidate (RC) of its latest Linux-based operating system, Ubuntu 9.10.