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90% Windows, 5% Mac, 5% Linux? - Register article by a Newsforge regular about the "market share" of popular Operating Systems.

Best Technical Support Award - InfoWorld declares the Linux user community to have the best technical support. Compares help Linux users give to each other as opposed to the amount of tech support offered by major corporations.

Can Mandrake raise money by being your team? - Newsforge article says Mandrake soft is considering an IPO.

Can you install Linux? I think I can - Linux may be leading the open-source movement but is it the software for the people? It depends. Would you recognize a video card if it jumped off a motherboard? [CNN]

Could You Get Fired for Choosing Linux? - Article with numerous follow up posts. Covers the usual arguaments for/against Linux.

Create a Linux based Network for peanuts - A functioning workstation for little or no money on older hardware? It can be done, and here is how.

Crossroads 6 - 1 - This is the Fall 1999 issue of Crossroads, the International ACM student magazine. This issue features articles related to all aspects of Linux, including parallel computing, networking, and security.

Do women need an OS of their own? - LinuxChix debate the merits of a female-orientated operating system. [ZDNN]

Easier install makes Red Hat 5.1 even more appealing - An InfoWorld review of the Red Hat distribution version 5.1.

Feds Can no Longer Ignore Linux - There may come a day when government IT managers realize the cost savings of not having to pay for an OS license for every desktop and server. [CNN]

Free Speech - Article from linuxuser about the GPL and MS FUD attacks.

GNOME, KDE put Linux on the desktop - ZDNet review of GNOME 1.4 and KDE Project's KDE 2.1.1 and their role in making Linux a viable replacement for Windows on mainstream corporate desktops.

Geekfest - Installing Linux - First time user shares install experience.

Governments push open-source software - Concerned with costs and dependency, legislators from Brazil to China are increasingly considering open-source software. CNET.

Grassroots Linux grows (InfoWorld) - An article that contains stories of different companies that have started using Linux. Also contains a section on "How to pick your Linux" which states the advantages of different distributions and links to their homepages.

HP-Compaq's Great Software Challenge - What will CEO Carly Fiorina do about its gaggle of operating systems? The decision could confirm her vision and make Linux a huge winner. Business Week Online.

InfoWorld Interview with Linus Torvalds - Linus Torvalds talks economics and operating systems in this interview with Mike Vizard of InfoWorld. Focuses mainly on how Linux is affecting the way people look at the future of operating systems and economics models that drive the industry.

InfoWorld's OS of the Year - The Red Hat Linux distribution wins InfoWorld's OS of the Year for 1997. Contains a small synopsis of the distributions strengths.

Kimberlite's Cluster Free to Open Source Suitors - "She uses off-the-shelf commodity hardware running virtually any Linux distribution." Press release on Mission Critical's Kimberlite.

Linux Cluster Solution Means Business - Linux clustering solutions will move from scientific applications into the boardroom and business arena, if a nine-month-old startup called Mission Critical Linux has its way.

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