I've been thinking about why it's so hard to communicate the benefits of open source and Linux to the general public, and have come to the conclusion that it's because the general public has been conditioned by movies and TV to only understand simplistic plots wit...

It seems as if every day a new Linux distribution emerges into the world. True, it can lead to some confusion in the marketplace and fragmentation of the Linux brand name, but open source is all about confusing the end user by having five equally good products tha...

SYS-CON Radio interviews Cheryl Traverse, Chairman and CEO of Immunix, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004 in San Francisco about the fast-growing Secure Linux and Software Appliance markets.

SYS-CON interviews Jeremy White, CEO of Codeweavers, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004 in San Francisco.

'Open standards, not just open source,' says Sam Greenblatt, Senior VP and Chief Architect of the Linux Technology Group for Computer Associates. He is as bullish about open source in the enterprise, in governments, and in the world at large as he has ever been - ...

SYS-CON Radio interviews Bob Corrigan, Product Manager for InstallShield's setup authoring tools, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004 in San Francisco about the dramatic year-to-year growth that InstallShield is seeing in its cross-platform sales...including Linux.

SYS-CON Radio interviews John Fanelli, Sun's senior director of marketing, Network Systems Group, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004 in San Francisco about the exact nature of Sun's engagement with Linux and open source, including the question of whethe...

SYS-CON Radio interviews Tim Lee, CEO of Pogo Linux, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004 in San Francisco about Linux hardware and compatability, including dual-boot systems and Pogo's newly launched AMD 64-bit 'Linux laptop.'

SYS-CON Radio interviews Anthony Johnson, El Presidente of Storix, winner of the LinuxWorld Product Excellence award for data back-up and storage solution, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004 in San Francisco.

SYS-CON interviews Russ Shelton, VP of Marketing, SteelEye Technology, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004 in San Francisco about the company's latest announcements.

SYS-CON interviews Mike Ruane, President and CEO of Revelation Software, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004 in San Francisco about the company's latest announcements.

SYS-CON interviews Todd Johnson, President of Jamcracker, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004 in San Francisco.

SYS-CON interviews Martin Buckley, 'Evil Zen Scientist' and Director of Product Management for Novell's ZENworks product line, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004 in San Francisco.

A funny thing has happened to the computer industry over the last few years. The traditional wisdom was that there were two types of companies. At one extreme, there were small, fast startups that could maneuver nimbly and rapidly gain market share. On the other e...

At this point, Linux has gone a long way toward totally infiltrating Microsoft's server business. For databases, Web servers, and file servers, Linux competes on an equal footing, if not a superior one. There's only one missing link left - a replacement for Mic...

Sometimes a story is so good, writes LinuxWorld Senior Editor James Turner, that you almost don't want to know if it's true or not. Such is the case with the widely reported discovery by UK firm Netcraft that the Nevada District Court, which will hear one of t...

SYS-CON Radio interviews Mark Bucciarelli, Developer for KDE

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Frederic Renard, Director of Marketing for Arkeia

SYS-CON Radio Interviews David Fraser, Group Vice President and General Manager, Product Business for Wind River

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Julie Hanna Farris, President and CEO of Scalix

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Paul Lundquist, Vice President of Sales for Open Systems, Inc.

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Nick Collins, Manager, Worldwide Linux Marketing, HP

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Doug Levin, CEO of Black Duck Software

There's no question that the open source community has a lot going for it. Besides a staggering amount of developer power that can be turned against important problems, the open source movement also has a passion and commitment that the commercial software world often envies.

For several hours each day, Rob Malda has the power to send tens of thousands of Web surfers hurtling toward sometimes unprepared Web sites. No, he's not some shady Eastern European extortionist; he's one of the founders and current editors of Slashdot, the blog o...

Thursday 03.22 AM EST: In the early hours of this morning, EST, the 2.6 kernel - almost two full years in the making, with improvements to scheduling, disk management and file systems, better networking and IPSec support, as well as countless bug fixes and minor...

Just as, in the Java world, there are many competing MVC frameworks for JSP development, so many Open Source developers - says LinuxWorld senior editor James Turner - 'scratch the same itch.' In this week's installment of our 'Point-Counterpoint' series, LinuxWorl...

Action against spam looks like it is on its way.

In a week when the Slashdot community has been especially active interacting with LinuxWorld's 'What Would UserLinux look Like?' item, James Turner interviews Rob Malda of Slashdot. Listen to the exclusive interview.

Traditionally dominated in the past by OEM vendors hawking off-shore CD-R drives and line printers for resale, COMDEX this year has shifted toward more of a software focus, including Open Source, says LinuxWorld senior editor James Turner wearing a different hat a...

HP has announced that it will offer legal idemnification to HP customers who purchase Linux-bundled computers from the San Jose-based company.

In a phone conversation today with Erik Monninkhof, CFO and co-founder of Dupaco, the sole distributor of SCO product in the Netherlands, LinuxWorld Magazine's senior editor James Turner learned that it's not just competing Linux distributions that are suffering s...

The goal of every darkside hacker is to get the target system to do something you don't want it to do. A primary example is buffer overruns - one of those things that every first-year programming student should be taught to avoid, yet one that is still used with ...

Sometimes the irony is so sharp you can cut deli meat with it. As we settle in for a long hot summer and a fall of legal skirmishes between SCO and the rest of the known Linux universe in regards to the patents and other intellectual property surrounding Unix, the...

If you're looking for a David and Goliath story, you don't need to look any further than Michael Robertson, CEO of Lindows.com. As the first major player trying to sell Linux desktop computers in a retail environment, he's felt the full wrath of Microsoft's fury, ...

SYS-CON Radio interviews Jeff Coleman, President of Resource Strategies, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2003 in San Francisco.

SYS-CON Radio interviews Ken Wong, Quality Assurance Manager for Xandros, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2003 in San Francisco.

LinuxWorld Magazine senior editor James Turner is hanging out this week at LinuxWorld Expo. Read his first day's musings and his take on how Linux is maturing in the corporate world.

SYS-CON Radio interviews James Gudeli, channel sales manager of Kerio Technologies Inc. about Anti-spam suites for corporate email, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2003 in San Francisco.

SYS-CON Radio interviews Ofer Shoshan, CEO of Qlusters, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2003 in San Francisco.