Most developers know by instinct that some projects move quickly and others seem to crawl forward - or even go backwards at times. But how can a project's velocity - or speed of progress - be tracked more empirically?

Without a full-featured office productivity suite, Linux on the desktop would be nothing but a dream. Fortunately, the OpenOffice.org project provides us with a fullfeatured office productivity suite that is solid and continuing to get better.

Every company that develops software whether for internal use or to sell to customers is now working in a new 'mixed-IP' environment created by the spread of Open Source. This new environment's impact on software development has been dramatic.

When I was a kid, all I wanted to be was a rock star. I wanted to play guitar, get up on stage, and have everyone scream while I cranked out some hard rockin' tune. I wanted to see lighters held up in the crowd as I finished my last set - dripping with sweat, completely tired, and no e...

Michael Stutz, author of The Linux Cookbook, 2nd Edition: Tips and Techniques for Everyday Use, discusses what inspired him to write this book, when he first started using Linux, and other world views.

This will be my last column as editor-in-chief of LinuxWorld Magazine. It's been a lot of fun and a great ride, but I guess all good things must come to an end. The new editor-in-chief will be Mark Hinkle. Regular readers know Mark from his ongoing 'Dr. Migration' column. Mark was the ...

Martin Fink's book on the business side of Linux and open source was one of the first books that looked at Linux and open source from the perspective of corporate managers and executives. In this extremely influential book, he explained in business terms why Linux and open source are h...

Recently I had the opportunity to talk with the authors of Version Control with Subversion. In this interview, they discuss what Subversion is, migrating to Subversion, and, of course, music.

In his briefest ever contribution to LinuxWorld.com, Kevin Bedell writes...

As the Linux and open source communities continue to expand, there's a lot of discussion happening around the ideas of open source and open standards. It's not enough, people say, to just have the software code be open source - the standards themselves need to be open too.

So it's begun. Microsoft is admitting in its financial filings that Linux and open source are eating into its revenues. Worse for them, they say, is that what they're seeing is the tip of the iceberg.

The Linux Kernel Summit takes place every year and the last few years it's been held in Ottawa, Canada. Prior to that it was in San Jose, California. USENIX organizes the whole event and they're sponsored by various companies; Oracle is a big sponsor,as well as companies like IBM, HP, ...

Can something be considered to be 'open source' if some organization stays in control of the standards that the software implements? In other words, is 'Open Source/Closed Standards' a good idea? Yes, says LinuxWorld editor-in-chief Kevin Bedell, 'I believe this should be fine. It's to...

In this issue, Bernard Golden, author of Succeeding with Open Source, discusses open source software, its pros and cons, and how to choose the right Linux implementation for your business.

There are some people who are passionate about the differences between 'free software' and 'open source.' I'm beginning to wonder if the difference matters. The term 'free software' came into use at about the same time that Richard Stallman quit his job at MIT, launched the GNU Project...

Mark Hinkle, LinuxWorld Magazine's editor of desktop technology and CIO of NeTraverse, makers of Win4Lin, talks to Kevin Bedell about the latest developments in the Linux desktop and Windows-to-Linux migration.

SYS-CON interviews Michael Norman, CEO of Scapa Technologies, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004 in San Francisco, about Eclipse and - especially - the Hyades Project.

LWM's editor-in-chief, Kevin Bedell, recently had the opportunity to ask Ranajit Nevatia, director of Linux Strategy for VERITAS, a few questions about how Linux is impacting VERITAS and how the company is contributing to the world of open source.

LWM's editor-in-chief, Kevin Bedell, spoke with Sun's John Fowler about what's new - with Sun, with Fowler's new position, and with Sun's place in the open source world - and learned a little history as well.

Hello, and thanks for reading LinuxWorld Magazine! Welcome to our one-year anniversary issue! It seems like only yesterday that we were launching this magazine; so much has happened since then.

Hello and welcome to another edition of LinuxWorld Magazine! As usual, we're excited about the great material we've been able to put together for you. Looking back over the last month, I was really struck by how the visibility and adoption of Linux and Open Source software have been ...

Recently it's been confirmed that employees of the JBoss Group have been for some time been making anonymous and/or fake posts on Java community sites. They've been aggressively promoting their platform by pretending to be people who are using JBoss and like it - and just as aggressive...

We received some great news this past month. Our own Dee-Ann LeBlanc, known to regular readers as the Gaming Industry editor of LinuxWorld Magazine, was selected a winner of the 2003 Excellence in Technology Journalism by the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). Dee-Ann won for ...

Marc J. Rochkind wrote the first edition of Advanced UNIX Programming in 1984. In this installment of the Book Rookery, he discusses with Kevin Bedell the second edition - a complete revision that benefits from his years of post-Bell application systems development experience.

Kevin Bedell caught up with Rickford Grant, author of Linux for Non-Geeks, to ask him a few questions about his handy guide for Linux newbies and those with 'command-line phobia.'

I'm waiting for Linux's Steve Jobs to arrive. You know what I mean? A person who can take this technology and turn it into some amazing consumer products. 'Insanely Great' products.

In this interview, LWM Editor-in-Chief Kevin Bedell speaks with Francois Bancilhon, CEO of Mandrakesoft, about the success they've had over the past year...and how they plan to build upon it.

In this installment of the Book Rookery, Kevin Bedell speaks with LWM's own Dee-Ann LeBlanc about the latest edition of Linux for Dummies, which features expanded coverage of the Linux desktop, among other things.

With a new business desktop, a 'Best Front Office Solution' award, and an expanding product line, things are looking good for Xandros. LWM Editor-in-Chief Kevin Bedell spoke with Dr. Frederick H. Berenstein at LinuxWorld Expo; here he shares the history of Xandros and, more important, ...

Linux is among the most popular applications known as 'free software' or 'open source.' Among other things, 'open source' means that the source code for these applications is available to those who are interested in seeing (or modifying) it. This is unlike commercial applications such ...

In this installmant of the Book Rookery, LWM Editor-in-Chief Kevin Bedell talks with Arnold Robbins about his new book, Linux Programming by Example: The Fundamentals, which will be invaluable to those just learning to develop under Linux.

This lively discussion will take on the controversial OS questions tha everyone is asking.

While many are decrying the 'giant sucking sound' of development projects flying to off-shore development shops in India and other countries, the smart ones among us realize that this trend will create some new opportunities at home as well. When the new projects require you to work wi...

If you're like me, one of the most interesting things about following Linux is being constantly amazed at how many radically different directions you can see it going in. For example, in the last 30 days I've talked to people about Linux applications running on platforms ranging from ...

If you want to maximize the powerful capabilities of Red Hat Enterprise and Fedora Linux, you'll want to check out Red Hat Enterprise Linux & Fedora Edition: The Complete Reference, by Richard Petersen and Ibrahim Haddad. In this Q&A, Kevin Bedell asks these experts a few questions a...

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Jaldhar Vyas Debian developer.

SYS-CON Radio Interviews James Cox, Editor for Apress

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Scott McNeil, Executive Director of the Free Standards Group

SYS-CON Radio Interviews Mark Smith, Ph.D Managing Director of the Gelato Federation

SYS-CON Radio interviews Jim McQuillan and Ron Colcernian of the LTSP project.