Linux Linux Magazine is dead, long live Linux Magazine I hadn't seen it posted anywhere, but it is now public. InfoStrada will no longer be publishing a print version of Linux Magazine. Linux Pro Magazine, which is known as Linux Magazine outside the USA, will be acquiring some of the print assets. The US-based Linux Magazine will
Google Opening up Symbian - Good or Bad for Linux? That's the question raised by this recent Nokia press release: Espoo, Finland - Nokia today announced it has launched a cash offer to acquire all of the shares of Symbian Limited that Nokia does not already own, at a price of EUR 3.647 per share. The net
LinuxQuestions.org LinuxQuestions.org Turns 8 It was on June 25, 2000 that I made the very first post at LQ, introducing it to the world. Fast forward eight years and we have almost 3,200,000 posts and over 350,000 registered members. I don't think the raw numbers tell the real story
Microsoft ISO puts standard for Microsoft's OOXML document formats on hold From Heise: After member states filed four complaints against the standardisation of Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format, the International Standards Organisation (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) in Geneva have responded by postponing publication of the revised specification. As the ISO announced, the planned ISO/
Microsoft As the ODF-OOXML world turns I'm a bit behind on this, but it's a topic I've been covering for a while now so I wanted to follow up. First, from the the 451 group: Oh the drama. Most of us knew ISO approval of Microsoft’s OOXML format was
Microsoft Ozzie: Open Source a more disruptive competitor than Google I've often said that for Microsoft to truly change, Ballmer will have to go. On the other hand, Microsoft should be clinging to some other top level execs with a kung fu grip. Ray Ozzie is one of those execs. The vision and leadership he's shown
Ubuntu Ubuntu Live 2008 has been canceled A heads up to those of you who were planning on attending Ubuntu Live 2008 in Portland this July. The event has officially been canceled. From the site: The Ubuntu Live conference, which was scheduled to take place July 21-22 in Portland, OR has been cancelled. We are planning to
Open Source Gratis OSCON 2008 Conference Pass Are you interested in attending OSCON this year? It's my pleasure to inform you that LQ is able to give away one full conference pass (a $1445.00 value) absolutely free of charge. See this LQ thread for more information on how to be eligible. We'll
MySQL MySQL licensing redux A follow up to one of the more divisive announcements made at the MySQL Conference. From the 451 Group Blog: After all the fuss it appears that MySQL will be remaining open source after all. As Kaj Arno and Monty Widenius report, Marten Mickos announced at CommunityOne that the MySQL
Microsoft Microsoft Walks Away from the Yahoo Deal Unless you were in a cave over the weekend, I'm sure you've seen that Microsoft has walked away from its 40B+ Yahoo acquisition attempt. I've largely avoided the topic, but do have some commentary now. Note that many people think this is just a
Linux The OpenSolaris Community v2: Prepare Yourself Sun is a company I plan on covering a bit more as they continue to delve deeper into Open Source. I've commented on the current messaging issue Sun has around its Open Source participation previously. I haven't been following Open Solaris as much as I'
Linux OLPC's New President & Negroponte: Its a Laptop Project Now It's a bit sad to see the new direction the OLPC project may be taking. The Open Source community has put a lot into the project, not only from a technical standpoint but from a marketing one as well. I think many of us thought that Open Source
Ubuntu Gratis Ubuntu Live 2008 Conference Pass Are you interested in attending the second Ubuntu Live conference? It's my pleasure to inform you that LQ is able to give away one $895 full conference pass absolutely free of charge. I attended the event last year and it was a very good one. With all that&
LinuxQuestions.org /back The travel madness that was April is mostly behind me now and both blogging and podcasting should return to their previous frequencies. Thanks for the patience. --jeremy Sidenote: I think I liked the posting interface in WP pre-2.5 much better, but maybe I just need to get acclimated to
MySQL MySQL Expo - Day 2 Day 2 of the MySQL Conference and Expo is well under way. The opening keynote started with Rick Falkvinge, whose Swedish Pirate Party seems to be making quite a bit of progress since the last time I saw him speak at OSCON. The history he presented on copyright was interesting,
MySQL MySQL Expo - Day 1 (As with most of my conference posts, this is a bit more stream of consciousness and a bit less proofread than is typical. Such is the result of posting during small coffee breaks.) With the recent Sun acquisition of MySQL, I expected quite a bit out of the MySQL Conference
Linux Lug Radio Live US The first Lug Radio Live in the US was held over the weekend. I was both an attendee and a sponsor, and think the event went extremely well (especially when you consider it was a first and put on by 4 people that reside on a different continent). I'
Linux Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit As I mentioned in the podcast, I had planned to attend the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit but had to cancel due to a last minute conflict. Since I wasn't able to attend I've been keep a close eye on the coverage. It looks like I'
Linux Lack of Linux support is … lacking Greg KH just released the Linux Driver Project Status Report as of April 2008. The executive summary: The Linux Driver Project (LDP) is alive and well, with over 300 developers wanting to participate, many drivers already written and accepted into the Linux kernel tree, and many more being currently developed.
LinuxQuestions.org Lug Radio Live and MySQL Expo I've been traveling quite a bit recently so have not been able to blog nearly as much as I'd like. I expect that to continue through most of April, but I'll do my best to blog more than I have been. Things should calm
Microsoft OSBC: Footnote with Brad Smith You have to hand it to Brad Smith, general counsel for Microsoft. Last night he delivered the "footnote" address at the Open Source Business Conference 2008. Not only was the general counsel for Microsoft going to have a tough crowd, but he agreed to talk for 30 minutes,
OSBC OSBC: The State of the Open Source Database Market An interesting panel in an area that is really heating up. The panel consisted of participants from 451 Group (moderator Matthew Aslett), EnterpriseDB (Andy Astor), Ingres (Roger Burkhardt), Oracle (Ken Jacobs) and MySQL (Zack Urlocker). This was the last panel I attended last night, so I'm going from
OSBC OSBC: What Open Source Can Learn from Microsoft and the Proprietary World Got a decent seat for this one, so am going to attempt a pseudo live blog. Panel: Stephen Walli (moderator), Jean Barmash (Alfresco), Neelan Choksi (SpringSource), Sam Ramji (Microsoft) and Jim Zemlin (Linux Foundation). Microsoft has more community around it than some in the Open Source community realize or give
OSBC OSBC: The Future of Open Source & The Future of Operating Systems ...were the two panels I chose to attend this afternoon. The Future of Open Source included reps from Ingres, MySQL AB, SugarCRM, Ubuntu and Acquia. It was standing room only and as such it was a bit difficult for me to take notes (the iPhone is really poor for this,
OSBC OSBC Opening Keynotes The Open Source Business Conference opened this morning with keynotes from Jim Whitehurst, President and CEO or Red Hat, and Steven Pearson, VP Advanced technologies at CBS Interactive. Matt Asay started the morning off with a video based on his "fighting a rising tide riff". The audience at
