Can you buy Linux Fedora for 10 Billion.. and buy Linux kernel for Fedora about 1 Billion.... Can you???

The Register carries an interesting guestimate of how much Linux would have cost if the programmers had been paid. Conclusion, the Kernel would have cost US$1.4bn and a distro like Red Hat would have cost US$10.8bn.And we get it free!

It's not a new app—in fact, it's pre-packaged for most Linux distros by now—but we've (surprisingly) never given Conky a featured post before, and it well deserves one. CPU/memory/process watcher and can keep track of your unread IMAP mail, show what music's playing right now.

This site is just beginning. The plan is to develop a thorough linux admin site with summary and indepth information so linux users can put together a solid environment from beginning to end without grasping for straws "googling" information.

Any way you measure it, 204.5 millions lines of code or $10.8-billion dollars of development costs if Fedora 9 had been a proprietary program, Linux is both an amazing achievement and an amazing bargain.

The date for JRE 6 update release which has this 64bit JRE support will be early 2009.The testing of the 64-bit plugin is underway. Sun is targeting to support this feature in JRE 6u12, with support for Java Plugin/Java webstart on AMD64 arch on both Window (Firefox and Internet Explorer) and Linux (Firefox).

A simple way to get java web start (javaws) applications which use the jnlp file extension to work in 64bit sabayon linux.

This article series introduces an automatic deployment toolkit, which helps architects install and configure deployment nodes with a list of software installed and configured automatically. In this article, Part 3 in the series, build automatic installation and configuration scripts on DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows and Content Manager.

use the famous rdesktop to connect remotely to your Window$ machine. Don't forget about security (both on the Windows and Linux side)!

Asus CEO Jerry Shen has denied claims that consumers are sending back more Linux netbooks than they're returning Windows-based models.