Microsoft is more serious about Linux than Oracle, Feb 09, 2007

Do you remember the story about the dog that didn't bark? It was a Sherlock Holmes tale where the world's finest detective deduced the killer's identity by observing that a certain dog, who should have been barking ferociously, was in fact completely silent.

Lately, I've been getting questions about how well, or not, Red Hat is doing. My answer: I think the company's doing just fine.

Canonical and Linspire yesterday announced a deal that will see Linspire building its Linspire and Freespire Linux distributions on Ubuntu and Ubuntu users gaining access to Linspire's click and run software repository.

Novell Inc. likes to point out that it launched SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 a full nine months before Red Hat Inc. could get its latest Linux release, RHEL5, out the door (it is due out in March).

Never cross a Linux lover. Especially if you're Microsoft touting a new operating system called Vista.

On February 7, the CHiC massive parallel Linux cluster with 2,152 processors distributed across 538 server nodes went into operation in Chemnitz.

It's common to see newbies on general tech forums ask for advice about distributions when they are planning to test out GNU/Linux for the first time.

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