Hewlett-Packard is introducing a range of new Linux products and services aimed at extending its Linux distribution and environment support.
At LinuxWorld in San Jose, California, Sun Microsystems announced that it is joining the Gnome Foundation, a new organisation for open community developers that will advance the Gnome desktop as an industry-wide open user environment.
IBM says its researchers are running Linux on a prototype wristwatch device to show that the operating system can be used as basic software on small gadgets.
Caldera Systems, a developer of Linux Internet access software, says it will offer an Internet platform that will be able to accommodate both Linux and Unix operating systems.
Sun Microsystems says several Linux companies, including Red Hat and Caldera, have signed agreements to redistribute the StarOffice 5.2 office productivity suite.
Obsidian Systems, a Johannesburg-based Linux company, says it has acquired The Linux Warehouse, a Cape Town Linux retailer, in a move designed to allow the company to hand its retailing responsibilities to The Linux Warehouse.