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window.location="http://www.extremetech.com/category2/0,3971,540430,00.asp"; Linux is a growing, morphing, almost-alive phenomenon. So we've put together a complete collection of ExtremeTech's Linux coverage, including news and features, so you can see it evolve over time and refer back to the key events that have shaped Linux into what it is today.

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8/23/2002 KDE Announces New Desktop Beta On Thursday, the KDE Project announced the immediate availability of the first beta of KDE 3.1 beta1, the third generation of KDE's free Internet-enabled desktop for Linux and other UNIXes.

8/20/2002 Turbolinux Sells Linux Division Japanese software group Software Research Associates Inc. buys the Linux software business.

8/19/2002 Sun to Target Linux-Based Initiative at Developers Sun Microsystems Inc. will continue to make a push for developers and customers with new Linux offerings and open-source initiatives, according to the company's new head of software.

8/13/2002 Sun's McNealy Reiterates Open-Source Pledge Sun chief executive Scott McNealy pledged to hold to the open source model, both in its own software development as well as industry initiatives.

8/13/2002 UnitedLinux Set for Beta; Caldera Eyes New Era Caldera CEO Darl McBride says UnitedLinux group aims to offer Linux users and enterprise customers an "alternative" to Red Hat.

8/13/2002 eWeek at LinuxWorld For the latest from the floor, dig into the eWeek's complete coverage.

8/13/2002 Red Hat Expanding to Corporate Desktop Open-source technology provider will release a formal desktop Linux product geared toward the corporate market early next year.

8/12/2002 Red Hat Will Support AMD Opteron Red Hat is expected to announce an agreement to support AMD's 64-bit Opteron processor on Tuesday, adding the world's largest Linux vendor to the Opteron camp.

8/12/2002 Sun Rolls Out Linux Server In a bid to tap into the burgeoning popularity of Linux, Sun will unveil a new two-way server featuring the open-source software.

8/8/2002 HP, IBM Notch New Linux Customer Wins Announcements come a few days before the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco.

8/6/2002 IMHO: Why Lindows Ultimately Won't Matter Lindows is a nice idea that won't survive over time.

8/6/2002 Flaw Affects Windows 2000, Linux, Mac OS X Security flaw in a code library included in numerous popular applications could enable an attacker to execute code on remote servers.

7/23/2002 Beta Eval: Red Hat Shows a More Limber Linux A new beta release of red hat linux, code-named Limbo, hit FTP servers earlier this month, giving users a first look at what is likely to become Version 8.0 of Red Hat Inc.'s most popular Linux distribution.

7/19/2002 Debian Announces Version 3.0 Of GNU/Linux The Debian Project on Friday announced Debian GNU/Linux version 3.0., which now adds cryptographic elements and supports a total of eleven processor architectures.

7/15/2002 GNOME 2.0 Beefs Up Linux Viability GNOME 2.0 is a giant leap forward in the search for a viable Linux alternative to Windows, according to users and creators of the GNU Network Object Model Environment, but more work needs to be done on the technology.

7/10/2002 Top Tip: Linux install trashed Windows! "I just installed Mandrake Linux 8.2 on my computer - a Compaq Presario 5834 - and now the Windows boot drive is no longer accessible."

6/28/2002 Top Tip: AMD or Intel better for Linux? "As I plan for my next system, which does Linux usually fare better with in terms of direct compatibility: AMD or Intel, or does it matter anymore?"

6/20/2002 Update 2: IBM Still Supporting Linux-Based Notebooks IBM has entirely dropped Linux support for its ThinkPad notebooks, according to an IBM software engineer who has posted to a Linux mailing list.

6/19/2002 HP to Offer Red Hat Linux-Based Systems Hewlett-Packard Co. will offer Red Hat Linux Advanced Server software on most of its server and workstation platforms this fall, including systems featuring Intel Corp.'s upcoming Itanium 2 processor, HP and Red Hat Inc. announced.

6/19/2002 Tips for New Linux Users, Part II Text editors are a way of life in Linux. System files and shells live outside the friendly world of graphical editors. We'll show you how to get a whole lot more comfortable with discomfort.

6/18/2002 IHMO: Linux Advocates, Turn the Other Cheek! Linux advocates manage to undo much of the good inherent in their beloved OS with zealotry and rudeness. Here's a working solution to the problem...

6/17/2002 Analysis: LSB Standard Is Key to Linux Unity Red flags pop up when four linux distributors form the UnitedLinux group without the most widely used version of the operating system: Red Hat Linux. Is Linux condemned to go down the path to fracture traveled by previous Unixes?

6/12/2002 Top Tip: Linux & Unix defrag? "Just curious, do you need to defrag Linux and Unix file systems? More specificly, do you need to defrag Mac OS X which is based on BSD Unix?"

5/30/2002 Update: Foursome Stands United on Linux Linux vendors Caldera International Inc., Conectiva S.A., SuSE Linux AG and Turbolinux Inc. today announced that they will standardize on a single Linux distribution for the enterprise, to be known as UnitedLinux, in a move they say will streamline Linux development and certification.

5/29/2002 Zander Reflects on Sun, Solaris, Linux Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Chief Operating Officer and President Ed Zander last week oversaw the release of the Solaris 9 operating system—his last major product launch before he leaves the company in July.

5/28/2002 Linux Vendors to Standardize on Single Distribution A number of Linux vendors will announce that they have agreed to standardize on a single Linux distribution to try to take on Red Hat Inc.'s dominance in the industry.

5/28/2002 REVIEW: 3 Distributions Power Up Linux The power and fine-grained configurability upon which Linux has built its popularity as a network operating system are the same qualities that have tended to hold it back in the desktop world.

5/16/2002 Opera Update for Windows, Linux Takes Stage New features include an OperaMail button on the Personal bar, which allows users to log into their Web mail account while surfing in Opera.

5/14/2002 IMHO: Linux Apps -- Ready for Primetime! Stick a fork in them, they're done! And somebody in Redmond is sweating...

4/29/2002 ANALYSIS: Microsoft Hedging Its Chip Bets Microsoft embraces AMD Opteron to block Linux, but move could hurt Intel.

4/26/2002 Tips for New Linux Users, Part 1 How to crack the code, speak the language, and understand the ins and outs of Konqueror, Nautilus, Linux directory structure, tarballs, MIME types, shells, and more.

4/23/2002 SuSE 8.0 Available For Purchase German Linux developer SuSE AG said that version 8.0 of its Linux distribution is available for purchase.

4/15/2002 Office, Notes Linked Via Linux There's Windows, and there's Linux. Now, Windows-to-Linux software developer CodeWeavers Inc. has released an application that will allow Linux users to run Microsoft Corp.'s Office applications and IBM's Lotus division's Notes on their desktops without a Windows license or Windows emulator.

3/27/2002 IBM, SuSE Form Linux Services Alliance IBM and SuSE Linux have joined forces to provide Linux support and services to their combined global client base.

3/25/2002 Ximian Duo Makes Linux Connections Ximian Inc., the open-source desktop company formerly known as Helix Code Inc., will on Monday release its Ximian Connector for Microsoft Exchange and its Red Carpet CorporateConnect products.

3/25/2002 Red Hat Serves Enterprise Company to roll out Advanced Server, its first Linux product designed for high-end environments.

3/21/2002 Red Hat: Microsoft Quashed Interest in Linux Red Hat CTO Michael Tiemann testified that pressure from Microsoft Corp. kept computer makers from bundling Linux on their desktops and serves.