According to DesktopLinux.com's just completed survey, the number of Desktop Linux users has more than doubled in the past year, and Ubuntu remains their Linux distribution of choice.

Doctor Web Ltd, world's leading ICAP based virus defence company announces special bonanza for users of SafeSquid Content Filtering Internet Proxy.

Wind River Systems, Inc. the global leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO), and Palm, Inc. announced that Palm has selected Wind River® Platform for Consumer Devices, Linux Edition as its open standard Linux platform for future Palm® Foleo™ software releases.

Two LinuxWorld speakers in San Francisco have made back to back predictions that Linux will play an increasingly commanding role in the rapid growth field of server virtualization, but it's not immediately clear why that should be so.

On the second anniversary of the creation of the openSUSE(TM) project, the community program this week marked two new milestones -- the availability of the first beta of openSUSE 10.3 and the continued growth of the openSUSE Build Service.

IBM and Novell are beefing up their existing partnership on two fronts with Linux distributor Novell increasing support for IBM's Notes desktop collaboration software and its open-source WAS CE (WebSphere Application Server Community Edition).

IBM today announced a Big Green Linux initiative to help its clients further integrate Linux into the enterprise as a way to reduce costs and energy consumption by building cooler data centers.

Lenovo and Novell today announced an agreement to provide preloaded Linux on Lenovo ThinkPad notebook PCs and to provide support from Lenovo for the operating system.

HP today announced new tools and programs to help customers take further advantage of open source and Linux in their data centers.

In one of the most significant transformations of its worldwide data centers in a generation, IBM today announced that it will consolidate about 3,900 computer servers onto about 30 System z mainframes running the Linux operating system.

Microsoft and Xandros signed agreement, which will make patent protected Windows operating system work better with open source software. This is a five year, marketing, technology and patent deal.

On May 24th Dell made it official, unveiling three consumer systems -- the XPSTM 410n and DimensionTM E520n desktops and the InspironTM E1505n notebook -- with the Ubuntu 7.04 Linux distribution factory installed.