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

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.

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.

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Linux developer Mandriva has updated its operating-system-on-a-stick with the release of Mandriva Flash 2010, which includes a bootable version of the software on a USB Flash drive.

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.

A series of key Microsoft patents are reportedly on the verge of being sold to an open-source advocacy group..

Linux hackers working on the next version of the Linux kernel claim that some new improvements will speed up the OS on the desktop.

Like a digital Swiss Army knife, these are the Linux utilities and tools that are so useful you won't know how you ever did without them

Stuart Turton spends the fourth day of his one week odyssey with Linux, hailing the ease of GIMP, before a graphics card meltdown destroys his desktop and forces him to rethink his next move.

Madriva announced the release of Mandriva Linux 2010.0 this morning. Codenamed "Amelie", Mandriva 2010.0 is this year's autumn release of the popular Red Hat based Linux distribution

Nokia has officially announced the N900, the next device in its line of internet tablet devices, featuring the latest release of the firm's Linux-based platform, a slide-out keyboard and cellular capability..

Israeli mobile phone manufacturer Emblaze Mobile has unveiled a new Linux-based handset, the 'First Else', a phone dedicated to providing a "unique user experience"

Mark Shuttleworth, the founding angel and CEO of Canonical, which distributes Ubuntu Linux, has praised Microsoft's newly released Windows 7.

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

Moblin 2.0, the Linux-based operating system (OS) designed for Atom netbooks, is due to come pre-installed on some Dell netbooks from tomorrow..

Moblin 2.0, the Linux based operating system designed for Atom netbooks, is due to come pre-installed on some Dell netbooks sold overseas from tomorrow.