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Ts'o what's new at the Linux Foundation?

Ts'o what's new at the Linux Foundation?Great to see Ted working on LSB. This is an extremely critical project thatMUST be stabilized so that applications and drivers work on ALL distributions. Drivers and applications MUST be at least backward compatible for 5 years. LSB should not change more than every...

Tags: UNIX, Ts'o, LSB, Linux Foundation, Linux

Discussion threads 2007-12-06

No politics please, we're Linux!

No politics please, we're Linux!Fighting the wrong fightWindows wins in the corporate office where no choice exists. On the consumer front, where choice does exist, Mac OS X is making greater gains than you'll admit.nice excuse for a party at someone else's expenseLets get together for a few...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Desktops, Linux desktop, Linux Foundation, Linux, desktop, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-06-18

Hanrahan hire shows true Microsoft weakness

Microsoft's hire of Tom Hanrahan right, formerly director of engineering for the Linux Foundation (and before that of the OSDL, one of its predecessors) says a lot about the company's true open source situation.Hanrahan will now be running Microsoft's interoperability lab, which it set up after its Novell deal. His immediate...

Tags: support, Strategy, Microsoft, Linux Server OS, Linux Desktop OS, Linux, General

Blog posts 2007-06-11

Zemlin of Linux Foundation lets fly at Microsoft

Zemlin of Linux Foundation lets fly at MicrosoftThis is not a new argument ...... and the anti-software patent campaign in the EU used exactly this litigation argument as a reason why software patents were damaging. US advocates of patent reform have pointed it out on ocassion as well.Of course, Bill...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., patent, Linux Foundation, Linux, open source

Discussion threads 2007-05-29

Zemlin of Linux Foundation lets fly at Microsoft

The reason for the merger which created the Linux Foundation was to give open source a big, unified platform from which to respond to threats. (Picture of penguins flying in the water is by Guillaume Daugard.)Given the reality of Microsoft's patent threat, it was only a matter of time before...

Tags: General, GPL, Legal, Linux, Linux Desktop OS, Linux Server OS, Microsoft, Patents

Blog posts 2007-05-29

Linux Foundation's Murdock: No secret deal with Microsoft

Linux Foundation's Murdock: No secret deal with MicrosoftRespectful..."A respectful exchange of ideas." Imagine that. Maybe the posters to this talkback could try that, just for a change.RespectfulThey must have bolted down all the chairs or did they send balmer out of town?Never happen"A respectful exchange of ideas" only...

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Linux, EULA, Murdock, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Linux Foundation

Discussion threads 2007-02-21

Linux Foundation's Murdock: No secret deal with Microsoft

Mr. Debian, a k a Linux Foundation Chief Technology Officer Ian Murdock, isnt working on any secret Microsoft deals during his trip to Microsoft, he says. After speaking to a select group of Softies about the Debian Linux distribution, at Microsofts invitation, on February 20, Murdock blogged: "Yes,...

Tags: Corporate strategy, Linux, Novell

Blog posts 2007-02-21

Linux Foundation to be more like Apache

Linux Foundation to be more like ApacheWhat speaks for LinuxPolling software makes it easy to limit your terms beyond all reason. I have a hard time conceiving of a Linux which can function without GNU tools and I have a hard time conceiving of a Linux which can function...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Apache Software Foundation, Linux, Debian, Linux Foundation

Discussion threads 2007-01-23

Linux Foundation to be more like Apache

Jim Zemlin, executive director of The Linux Foundation, says his vision for the group is to make it like Apache, or Mozilla, or Eclipse. The CEA is right out.And anyone can use the penguin. Zemlin comes to this work from the software industry, having worked at Covalent and then the...

Tags: General, Implementations, Linux, Legal, Linux Desktop OS, Linux Server OS, education, management, business models, Jim Zemlin, Linux Foundation

Blog posts 2007-01-22

Linux Foundation: Strength in numbers

Linux Foundation: Strength in numbersGood moveI really believe this move makes sense. A good balance of the concepts of business and true freedom.Excelent!Excelent move.This was only due to the personal agenda push from Richard Stalman and followers.They really pushed the envelope to hard.Freedom is Not Against business or any other...

Tags: Richard Stalman, Linux Foundation, open source, Richard, software, Linux

Discussion threads 2007-01-22

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

Red Hat cancels Fedora Foundation

Red Hat cancels Fedora FoundationWoah![i]"We believe what we had envisioned it to be didn't make a lot of sense," Stevens said. "We began working on the Open Invention Network some time after the foundation launch. We put a ton of energy into that." [/i]Can't be -- a corporate spokesmouth admitting...

Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, God, Even IBM, Fedora Project, linux foundation, patent, Red Hat Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-04-05

Additional Resources

Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Linux

Is 20th century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk technology too quaint for you? Want to run your PC or server on storage devices that consume far less energy than the traditional alternatives? Want a portable or mobile storage unit that will never fail due to G-forces or "crashing?". Looking...

Tags: Linux, Disk, File System, Solid State Disk, Mandrake, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Gaping holes in RealPlayer patched

Digital media delivery firm RealNetworks has shipped a high-prority patch to cover four gaping holes in its flagship RealPlayer software, warning that the vulnerabilities could put users at risk of code execution attacks. The patch comes a few hours after Secunia released an advisory warning for one...

Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., RealNetworks RealPlayer, Digital Music, Digital Media, Security, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Foxconn snubs Linux users

Several readers have sent me a link to a discussion in progress on the Ubuntu forums which outlines how hardware manufacturer Foxconn crippled Linux support on the G33M-S motherboard by breaking ACPI support. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Foxconn, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-07-25

iPhone 2.0 jailbreaker for iPhone 2g/3g is available

The iPhone DevTeam blog has released the development sources for their tool xpwn version 0.3.  This tool is the firmware 2.0 version of the team's "cross-platform jailbreaking library/command-line utility".  The team claims it has been tested on Linux, Windows XP, and Windows Vista for both the iPhone 2g and the...

Tags: Apple iPhone, 3G, Microsoft Windows, Team Management, Productivity, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-25

News to know: 'Spam king' dead; Microsoft's cloud; Dell;

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide CBS Denver Video: 'Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC,...

Tags: Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Dell opts for performance with R5400 data center-hosted desktop

Dell unveiled its data center-hosted desktop product line on Tuesday. Unlike rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM, Dell didn't build its solution on blade servers but instead opted for a high performance system using a 2U box called the Dell Precision R5400 Rack Workstation. "By not putting the solution...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Performance, R5400, Workstations, Desktops, Servers, Hardware, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Google's $10M, no, $100M Android Challenge

Google's $10M, no, $100M Android ChallengeI think that Google also needs to make their own self branded phone.They can not depend on existing manufacturers to do it for them. But, after the Google phone takes off, Google might decide to get out of the market.It will be many years before...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, phone, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soon

Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soonTTLSomething I wish I'd asked during the webcast and which I can't quite get my head around:It was said that setting a long TTL doesn't help because of the way delegation works - has to...

Tags: Domain names, DNS server, TTL, server, Kaminsky

Discussion threads 2008-07-24