Why the ProMEPIS Buzz? New Linux Distro Is Increasingly Popular, Aug 05, 2005

... a grassroots hum started around a newcomer, MEPIS Linux, which began with three major differences from those other distributions.

If you do business around Microsoft products, it's obvious where you go for answers on the benefits of their products - Microsoft. However, if you're looking for this kind of information about Linux, where do you go?

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the General Public License (GPL), the great enabler of the open source movement, were sued last Thursday for restraint of trade under the Clayton Antitrust Act (15 US Code Section 26) in the US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana.

QCD Microsystems Inc, a little five-year-old company in New York, has made Linux look like Windows so it's easier to administer. The reaction of folks that have seen it has reportedly been "Wow."

A stealth start-up in Athens, Ohio whose name is Spliced Networks LLC is on the threshold of announcing a new Linux distribution that its young CTO John Buswell describes as "unlike anything currently on the market."

Mandrakesoft returned to profitability in its fiscal year ended September 30.