Salon's complete coverage of Linux and the Open Source Movement

Andrew Orlowski discusses a report commissioned by the US military about open source and free software.

This article presents an approach to combine the best of the Open Source and proprietary software development worlds.

Brief introduction to the Open Source movement, provides a review of books, sites, and topics.

The process transitioning from a Windows to a Linux desktop computer, step by step setup instructions for a dialup account, and VNC.

How-to's, documentation and various tools for administrating Open Source servers in an ISP environment.

Article by Michael A. Olson stating that Open source quietly makes a big difference.

"Hackers crack the code of a new chip and post the design secrets on the Web. The chip's maker, instead of suing, holds fire. What gives?"

Despite lack of marketing resources, more businesses are discovering and deploying open-source software in their back offices. Support has improved, capable tools quickly become the standard by which commercial products are measured.

Explains the competing open source philosophies and development models, with examples of popular open source projects such as Linux, Apache, KDE and Python.