This makes upgrading to Microsoft Windows 2000 a lot easier and, more important, quite a bit faster. With Windows XP Home Edition Beta 2 and Office XP final, Microsoft continues on its evolutionary, but not necessarily revolutionary, path. There is no doubt about it, Linux is here to say. The future of Linux starts and stops with one man, Linus Torvalds, who invented Linux and has the last word on development and release of the Kernal. In this in-depth review, CRN columnist Paul Rooney questions Torvald's ability to manage Linux on his own, and in a rare interview, he takes his questions to the man himself.
Mini firewall provides basic protection.
The Windows behemoth is aiming its guns squarely at Unix. Twelve modestly useful desktop utilities from which anyone can find a couple of winners. Though Windows Me has several important file-protection safeguards from Windows 2000 that suit it for some SOHO users, larger enterprises need more than this operating system has to offer. If you're going to host a Web site on your own colocated server, either of these two Linux systems will do you. To buy or not to buy, that is the IT question.