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No matter what type of hardware device Linux ends up on, somebody, somewhere hacks it.
The ZipIt — a small handheld instant messaging device that runs Linux — has been hacked into a remote for the Apple iTunes software. According to this article on MAKE: Blog, this is a client / server application with a small […]

TipMonkies has a good idea — Booting Linux Off a USB Keychain Drive.
For a while now, there have been entire Linux Distributions that have been designed to run off a bootable CD. This meant you could carry your Knoppix CD with you and pretty much run Linux on any computer that could boot off of […]

Linux Journal has an excellent article on using linux on laptops and the desktop. The article covers the authors experiences as he tried to load Linux on an average laptop — in this case, an IBM Thinkpad T21 — and covers everything from the Linux Distribution he ended up using (Ubuntu) to the specific thinkpad […]

When it comes to portable devices, it seems like Linux is everywhere.
A Gartner Group study reports that Embedded Linux powered 14 percent of smart phones shipped worldwide in the first quarter of 2005. This is an incredible 412 percent from only one year earlier. During the same period, only 4.5 percent of smart phones used […]

And so the debate continues…
ZDNet has just posted an article titled Linux vs Microsoft TCO Debate Rages. While the article seesaws back and forth between pro Linux and pro Windows without a real conclusion, they do make a couple of good points:

In our security conscious world, this has become one of the main reasons for […]

Rackspace has announced that they are now offering an Enterprise Class Linux Hosting Service called Red Label.
The hosting package includes not only name brand hardware and software from companies such as Dell, EMC, and Oracle, but also dedicated Linux support from Rackspace. Not only do they provide your standard hosting support, but they also provide […]

I think when you’re in Target and Walmart, you’re pretty much mainstream. With the Zipit, Linux is now not only in Target, but in your kids classroom.

The Zipit, from Aeronix, is a new handheld device that allows for Instant Messaging over any 802.11b WiFi Connection. You can chat with anybody else on either another zipit, […]

Groklaw has obtained an email written by a consultant for SCO that clearly states:

At the end, we had found absolutely *nothing*. ie no evidence of any copyright infringement whatsoever.

I don’t think it gets much clearer than this — There Is NO Copyright Infringement by Linux of SCO Unix Source Code!
The email, which had been […]

Mandriva, Progeny, and Turbolinux will be teaming up to create a new distribution based on the Debian Linux distribution. This new distribution will then be the base for the next enterprise server distributions from all three companies.
According to this article on eWeek, there has been no official announcement, but sources close to all three companies […]

A serious security vulnerability has been found in the zlib compression library found in most Linux distributions.
The vulnerability, a buffer overflow, could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code. The buffer overflow could be exploited remotely.
While there is no official update from the zlib team as of yet, most major Linux Distributions have made […]