AndroidQuestions.org

Happy New Year & Browser and OS stats for 2011

I’d like to wish everyone a happy new year on behalf of the entire LQ team. 2011 has been another great year for LQ and we have quite a bit of exciting developments in store for 2012, including a major code update. 2011 also marks the year that we

LinuxQuestions.org

Migrating This Blog

Just a quick heads up that I am moving this blog to wordpress.com. I'd like to resume blogging at less sporadic intervals, so stay tuned. All subscriptions, permalinks and settings should have been preserved during the migration. If you notice any issues, let me know ASAP. Thanks.

LinuxQuestions.org

LinuxQuestions.org Turns Eleven

I'm extremely excited to announce that exactly eleven years ago today I made my very first post at LinuxQuestions.org. As I've stated numerous times, since then LQ has exceeded my expectation in every way. 4,382,316 posts and 457,176 registered members does not

Android

Announcing AndroidQuestions.org and Introducing The Questions Network

I'm extremely excited to announce that AndroidQuestions.org is now officially out of BETA. AndroidQuestions.org is for the discussion of all Android-related topics; from phones, tablets and other hardware devices to Android applications and development. Along with LinuxQuestions.org, AQ starts off what we're calling

LinuxQuestions.org

Blog Update

As you've likely noticed, this blog has been fairly quiet as of late (although I continue to tweet regularly). I'd like that to change however, as I've felt both constricted by the 140 character nature of twitter and disappointed about how they treat their

Android

Happy New Year & Browser and OS stats for 2010

First, I’d like to wish everyone a happy new year on behalf of the entire LQ team.  2010 has been another great year for LQ and we have quite a bit of exciting developments in store for 2011, including a major code update. I've posted to this

Android

My First Android Experience: intriguing, extremely encouraging but a bit disappointing

I recently got my hands on a Nexus One, which believe it or not is my first Android-based phone.  I've been trying to acquire an N1 for quite some time now, so after finally tracking an AT&T version down it quite simply couldn't ship

Linux

Microsoft: 'We love open source'

A couple comments on this NetworkWorld Article: Everyone in the Linux world remembers Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's famous comment that Linux is a "cancer" that threatened Microsoft's intellectual property. Ballmer is still CEO of Microsoft, but that comment occurred in 2001, a lifetime ago

Android

Oracle, Google and Java - Oh My

A follow-up to this post, now that some additional information is coming out. James Gosling has made another interesting post with some historical information, including the fact that as a result of an IBM lawsuit some Sun engineers made an unofficial game out of seeing how ridicuouls of a patent

Uncategorized

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-15

* Build a Linux Media Center PC HOWTO: http://bit.ly/a3lmUp # * Heading to Boston for #linuxcon # * Wim Coekaert or Oracle at #linuxcon "We will not kill Linux or Solaris. We like BOTH." # * Rob Chandhok of Qualcomm at #linuxcon "We think we'll have a dual core

Android

Oracle Sues Google For Patent And Copyright Infringement

In one of its first big moves with the assets it's acquired as part of the Sun acquisition, Oracle has just announce that it's Suing Google for patent and copyright infringement.  From the press release: "In developing Android, Google knowingly, directly and repeatedly infringed Oracle&

Linux Foundation

Linuxcon Coverage

I'm in Boston at Linuxcon and while I usually liveblog the events I attend, I'm going to try something new this time.  While I may blog some of the event, I'll be tweeting much more heavily than I have at past events. Check my

LinuxQuestions.org

LinuxQuestions.org Turns Ten

I'm extremely excited to announce that just over 10 years ago today I made my very first post at LinuxQuestions.org, which served to introduce the site to the public.  WOW.  To say that LQ has exceeded every one of my expectations in the 3,655 days between

Android

Google Android outsells Apple iPhone in Q1 of 2010

From the article: Smartphones based on Google’s Android mobile operating system have outsold Apple’s iPhone in the U.S. during the first quarter of 2010, according to a report by research firm The NPD Group. The data places Android, with 28 percent of the smartphone market, in second

Linux

New Site Launch: LinuxExchange.org

I'm happy to announce that I just launched a new site: LinuxExchange LinuxExchange is "StackOverflow for Linux and Open Source" and is built on the StackExchange platform.  That means it's a collaboratively edited question and answer site about Linux and Open Source with a

Open Source

The Post-Oracle Sun Exodus

It appears Oracle is starting to experience some high profile departures from ex-Sun employees now that the acquisition has been finalized. First came Tim Bray: Today I resigned from Sun/Oracle — the official integration date here in Canada is March 1st, so I won’t ever have actually been an

financial

Novell Gets $2 Billion Takeover Offer From Elliott

From BusinessWeek: Novell Inc., a seller of network software whose stock has slid 85 percent in the past decade, received an unsolicited takeover bid from shareholder Elliott Associates LP that values the company at about $2 billion. Novell’s shares jumped as much as 37 percent to $6.51 in

Android

LinuxQuestions.org Mobile OS Stats

While on the topic of mobile Linux, I thought it would be interesting to post the mobile Operating System stats for LQ year-to-date. Operating Systems iPhone54.38% Android18.10% iPod17.29% SymbianOS4.82% BlackBerry2.08% Windows1.72% Despite being a late entry into the mobile OS market, Android seems to

Intel

Intel & Nokia Merge Maemo + Moblin to form MeeGo

In case you haven't heard, Intel and Nokia are merging their respective Mobile Linux initiatives into a project called MeeGo (an unfortunate name, IMHO, but I guess that's fairly common in the FLOSS world these days) that will be hosted by The Linux Foundation.  From CNET:

Linux

Amazon Sells GNU/Linux down the River

From @glynmoody: Here's a particularly stupid move by Amazon: Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has signed a patent cross-license agreement with Amazon.com Inc. The agreement provides each company with access to the other’s patent portfolio and covers a broad range of products and technology, including

LinuxQuestions.org

2009 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners

The polls are closed and the results are in. You can view the detailed results here, but I'll include a list of winners at the end of this post for convenience. This was the ninth annual LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards and we've set a record

MySQL

Oracle Sun Merger Closes

As I'm sure you've heard by now, the Oracle acquisition of Sun has closed. From MySQL and Java to OpenSolaris, OpenOffice.org and more; it's difficult to understate the potential impact this will have on the Open Source community.  Many people are skeptical of

Linux

75% of Linux code now written by paid developers

In what should come as no surprise to those who have been watching, 75% of Linux code is now written by paid developers.  From the article: Forget lofty ideals about the open-source community: most Linux kernel code is written by paid developers at major corporations. The Linux world makes much

Open Source

OpenSource.com Launches

Red Hat has recently launched OpenSource.com.  This isn't a site where Red Hat will simply extol the virtues of its products, but about Open Source in general... even outside the technology context.  We already know that Open Source has the ability to definitively produce better software.  Red

Linux

Happy New Year & Browser and OS stats for 2009

First, I'd like to wish everyone a happy new year.  2009 was another great year for LQ and we have a ton in store for 2010.  You may have noticed this blog has been quiescent lately. While I have been twittering regularly, the terse and off the cuff