More tools and good support options are just some of the highlights of this server package.

Yahoo just running Oracle Linux on a few database servers.

Red Hat is taking a second stab at the embedded systems market.

Despite various attempts at Windows Desktop alternatives, Linux is still best suited to servers, for which Red Hat is by far the most popular choice. With this in mind, it came as no surprise when in May 2002 Red Hat split its product line in two: Linux and Enterprise Linux.

Red Hat's latest offering is a finely tuned offensive into the lucrative corporate desktop market. With the Linux steamroller on a collision course for Redmond the last year has seen a number of major wins for the open source upstart with corporations such as IBM and governments that include Germany, France, China, Japan, Russia and Britain either already making the switch or considering it. And not just for servers, but on workstations too.

Goliath takes aim at David.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Novell OES to be launched at LinuxWorld.

26 Red Hat customers jump ship.

Entry-level WebSphere version bundled with SuSE.

An often irreverent look at some of the past week's other news.

Total open sourcing of Java moves closer.

First Linux patent claim is here.

Quest to improve Windows/Linux interoperability continues.

Desktop Linux version pushed backed to September.

I've recently spent a couple of weeks on site at a client running a Linux training course and dabbling with the popular and powerful Web-caching package, Squid.

Want to break free from a Microsoft world? Leigh Dyer looks at the alternatives.

The first problem you face when reviewing a Linux reference title is that you know youre on to a loser.