Taking a closer look at the battle between the popular Desktop Environments.

The selling point of the LGPL (Lesser General Public License) is that it is an open source license that enforces sharing between the original and subsequent developers, but it does not require derivative works to be equally open.

Want to run Windows programs on your Linux box? Jason Compton examines the various options and finds that, so far, the commercial offerings are ahead of their open source counterparts.

Open sourcers can still get by without having to choose between KDE or GNOME on the desktop, but those days are numbered. A growing number of developers are enamored with the advanced GUI and OS interface tools offered by a full-fledged desktop environment.

Beowulf supercomputers built from large numbers of cheap Linux boxes are gaining a following, and not just at universities and research labs.

Enthusiasm for embedded Linux systems has grown dramatically over the past two years--even Linus Torvalds has gone on the record to say that it should be a priority for the open source OS.