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Vendors are ramping up enterprise support for Linux in a bid to nudge the operating system over the proverbial tipping point. According to Rusty Russell, a kernel hacker working for IBM's Linux Technology Centre, IBM is providing necessary enterprise support for Linux in four key areas – scalability, performance, hardening and testing.

"I am not hearing of many wholesale swaps from Windows to Linux," says Laura DiDio of the Yankee Group. "A company has to have a self-sufficient, experienced I.T. staff that can write custom applications, and be willing to risk not having an indemnification policy."

I have tried over and over to fault Mandrake 10, and apart from that one crash in KDE and the missing software I use, I cannot find any faults. I was going to give it a mark out of 10, but instead I will give it a percentage mark. 98%. Very good but still a very slight margin for improvement.

Silicon Graphics Inc. recently released a 10 Gigabit Ethernet option for its line of Linux/Unix-based servers, workstations and storage appliances.

How one sysadmin built his own system statistics monitoring program.

Jabber, the streaming XML technology mainly used for instant messaging, is well-suited to its most common task. However, Jabber is a far more generic tool. It's not a chat server per se, but rather a complete XML routing framework. This has some pretty far-reaching implications.

Companies using open source components must build a strategy to deal with potential risks around licensing and intellectual property involved with the software.

O'Reilly Media is now a U.S. and Canadian reseller for Mandrakesoft, creators of Mandrakelinux.

It used to be that governmental agencies enamored of the status quo -- and that's pretty much the whole government -- were not interested in open source solutions to their IT problems. Like the rest of the IT industry, though, government is now looking to open source to make its resources go further. Unlike the rest of the industry, and atypical for government, federal and state agencies are embracing open source ideas and ideals.