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The EVMS project is an
IBM-sponsored effort to provide volume management services for Linux. EVMS
had high hopes for inclusion in the 2.5 kernel, but, when it came down to
the wire, Linus opted to merge LVM2 instead. LVM2 lacks many of the
features and fancy GUI management tools found in EVMS, but the kernel
developers found the code to be much more to their liking. So EVMS got
left out in the cold.

The rise of Linux at DreamWorks SKG is comparable to an aspiring young actress getting her big chance when the aging star breaks a leg at the last minute. Only in this case, a Sun Solaris Ultra One server crashed, taking with it the animation studio's external Web site. At the time of the crash four years ago, technical support was in a fix, because restoring the server and getting the site back online was going to take several days, according to Rick Garcia, a senior systems analyst at Glendale, Calif.-based DreamWorks. Fortunately, the company had a Linux platform waiting in the wings because IT had been testing the open-source operating system on a Dell machine. Garcia's group put the Linux box into production as a Web server, providing Domain Name System and file transfer protocol services in place of the Solaris box. "We didn't tell anybody about it for quite some time," Garcia says. Nor did anyone have reason to complain: The 500-MHz Dell box happened to be more powerful than the downed Solaris server,…

A revamped version of key disk drive management software in Linux will be based on a project from a start-up, spurring a retreat by IBM programmers working on competing software.