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- Video: Picking a Linux distribution
- Video: Picking a Linux distributionSuSE 11 not ready for prime time.Check the forums. Lots of problems with multi-boot, hard drives, especially raid, others - check their forum.I tried it on brand new machine. Had trouble with Seagate Cheetah drive and adaptec raid. Tried 10.3, went smooth as silk.If you have...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, video, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- Torvalds criticizes patent trollers, Microsoft, Sun, virtualization craze
- Linux creator Linus Torvalds blasted patent trollers, Microsoft, Sun and the virtualization craze in his second official communiqué to the public. And he said desktop Linux is going nowhere in market share. In a second Q&A podcast posted on the Linux Foundation site, Torvalds told his...
- Tags: Desktop, Patent, Virtualization, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Linus Torvalds, Torvalds, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-02-04
- A quick update on the Classmate
- A quick update on the ClassmateIntel just a PR factoryIntel is in this just for the positive PR, nothing else. They didn't want to work with the OLPC folks, they want to look like they are doing it all.Alternatives are good - Intel got it rightIntel does well by joining...
- Tags: Intel Corp., Classmate, One Laptop Per Child project, public relations
- Discussion threads 2008-01-04
- GPLv3 Myth #3: GPL forbids DRM
- In our continuing series on the latest version of the world's most popular and least understood free/open source license, today we look at a controversial subject: Digital Rights Management DRM. My colleague David Berlind has another name for DRM: Content, Restriction, Annulment, and Protection CRAP.Disclaimer: This information was culled from...
- Tags: Programming, Licenses, Linux, GPLv3 Myths, General, Community, Commercial
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- Linux Foundation: Strength in numbers
- The top two Linux organizations announced today they are merging to form a new organization called The Linux Foundation. The work of the Open Source Development Labs OSDL and the Free Standards Group FSG will be continued by their successor. This includes:Sponsoring key Linux developersProviding legal servicesStandardizing APIs for Linux...
- Tags: General, Community, Linux, Linux Foundation
- Blog posts 2007-01-22
- Good news for Linux: Microsoft, Novell pact in trouble
- David Berlind is reporting that all is not well in what Dana Gardner called the "Fox marries chicken" deal between Microsoft and Novell earlier this month.This is a good thing, say many GNU/Linux supporters.[poll=8] Free software supporters are already working to undercut the deal, which brought Novell several hundred million...
- Tags: Linux, GNU/Linux, General, Licenses, Patents, Community, Microsoft, Programming
- Blog posts 2006-11-22
- Linux Hearts GPL Version 2
- In an online statement Wednesday, Linux creator Linus Torvalds has said that his kernel is licensed under Version 2.0 of the GPL, has always been under Version 2.0, and always will be under Version 2.0. Torvalds was responding to rampant speculation that open source licenses will have to move to...
- Tags: GPL, kernel
- Blog posts 2006-01-27
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