Linux Jeremy Zawodny and Ubuntu Linux on his Thinkpad T43p Jeremy Zawodny just tried Ubuntu 6.06 on a recently purchased Thinkpad T43p. His thoughts? WOW! A quote: Given all that, I'm shocked and amazed. It works. It just works. I think this is a very good sign that desktop Linux is well on its way. It'
Linux Couple Quick Followups I had a could quick followups to previous stories, so I'll lump them together in this post. * On the topic of Ubuntu still being a fairly new offering in the server market, it looks like they now have a Ubuntu Billboard up in California. It's right
Linux Lenovo to Load Linux on ThinkPad Laptop In a topic that I've covered quite a bit over the years, Lenovo will be announcing a ThinkPad with Linux preloaded at the upcoming LinuxWorld. As I've mentioned many times, OEM support on a large scale is critical to those who'd like to see
Linux Why Red Hat will go bust because of Ubuntu In this Free Software Magazine article, Tony Mobily gives the reasons why he thinks Red Hat will go under. The main reasons he gives are their departure from the desktop market and Ubuntu. While I also wasn't a fan of the way Red Hat did what they did,
Linux The LQ Bookmarks site is moving About a year ago, we released LQ Bookmarks, a site for Social Bookmarking, tagging and annotating all things Linux and Open Source. The site has seen decent adoption, but not to the level I'd have liked. I think one thing holding the site back was the lack of
Linux Ellison Talks Up Red Hat Linux It seems the rumors that Oracle may offer Red Hat support are intensifying. One thing that seems to be slightly misunderstood by the MSM is that Oracle can't simply redistribute RHEL. What they could do is offer a RHEL-compatible version of Linux, as CentOS does, that is completely
Linux Second Discussion Draft of GPLv3 Released The second discussion draft of the GNU General Public License version 3 was released on 2006 July 27, along with the first discussion draft of the GNU Lesser General Public License. While the DRM clause has been updated and clarified, Linus still doesn't likeit. From the CNET article:
Linux Re-thinking the Windows Refund Just came across this LXer article and I think there's a fairly large oversight in there. From the article: Consider Microsoft Windows in a similar light. It has the lion's share of the desktop market. It has a huge selection of applications that people can choose
Linux Yes, Virginia, there will be a Flash Player 9 for Linux Somehow I missed this, but there has been confirmation from Adobe/Macromedia that they will be releasing Flash Player 9 for Linux. While this is likely not of interest for the 100% OSS-at-all-costs group, I think it's encouraging. As much as I loathe flash ads, many interesting things
Linux What can we Learn from Microsoft Steven Vaughan-Nichols lists his top five things Linux can learn from Microsoft. This list is: 1. MSDN 2. Common Interface 3. Common Format 4. Marketing 5. OEM Support While I don't 100% agree with every ascertation he makes, he brings up some very valid points. I think Marketing
Google A New Google Service I was already disappointed that I wasn't able to attend OSCON this year (it's an absolutely fantastic event). Then I saw this. At a talk on Thursday, Greg Stein will be releasing details about a new Google Service for the Open Source community. Let the speculation
Linux Ottawa Linux Symposium Another conference that I meant to go to that has slipped by (yes, that means I am missing OSCON as I type this). Newsforge has posted a very thorough wrapup, which includes the closing keynote by Greg KH. To summarize: Linux supports more devices than anyone else. Linux progresses by
Linux AMD to Acquire ATI Some rumors do turn out to be true. AMD has announced that it will acquire ATI for nearly $5.4 billion in cash and stock. In trading, ATYT is up almost 20%, while AMD is down almost 5%. The repercussions of this should be fairly large. I keep reading that
Linux Microsoft and XenSource Microsoft recently issued a press release entitled "Microsoft and XenSource to Develop Interoperability for Windows Server “Longhorn” Virtualization". From the press release: Microsoft Corp. and XenSource Inc. today announced they will cooperate on the development of technology to provide interoperability between Xen™-enabled Linux and the new Microsoft
Linux Microsoft outlines principles of competition In what may become a continuing trend, Microsoft pledged today to follow a dozen principles of competition as it builds and sells its Windows desktop operating system software, the ubiquitous product that has been the subject of nearly a decade of antitrust battles. From the article: "As creators of
Linux Symantec sees an Achilles' heel in Vista This CNET article covers the recently released "Windows Vista Network Attack Surface Analysis: A Broad Overview" paper from Symantec. The paper covers the flaws uncovered by Symantec in the freshly rewritten Vista networking stack. To me, that's not too interesting. Vista is still in beta, and
Linux Will Oracle Offer Red Hat Support Some recent comments made by Larry Ellison have sparked speculation that Oracle may soon offer Red Hat support. From the article: A claim that Ellison made repeatedly throughout the briefing was that the software giant is targeting Red Hat support: specifically providing support services for Red Hat Linux users. The
Linux LinuxQuestions.org Adds Linux and Open Source Job Marketplace In a move that's a bit new to LQ, we've just released the LQ Jobs Marketplace. Basically, it allows employers to post Linux, Open Source and programming related opportunities to LQ for a small one time fee. Over the years we've gotten an increasing
Linux Open XML Translator project announced Brian Jones recently announced that Microsoft will be releasing an ODF converter for office. The Open XML Translator project is hosted at SourceForge and is available under the BSD license. From the post: While we still aren't seeing a strong demand for ODF support from our corporate or
Linux LQ ISO Hits 2,000,000 Downloads Launched about 20 months ago now, LQ ISO has now facilitated over 2,000,000 Linux ISO downloads. The site currently has 342 distributions versions available for download from 602 mirrors. The site also boosts improved statistics on the homepage, RSS feeds and email notifications for newly released versions and
Linux LinuxQuestions.org Turns Six As a just announced in the forums, LQ recently turned six. The site continues to grow at an astounding rate. It's not just the 2,311,325 posts and 254,019 registered members either. LQ ISO is just about to hit 2,000,000 downloads and we have
Linux Marvell Buys Intel's Handheld Processor Unit Looks like Intel has divested its "communications and application processor units" to Marvell Technology for $600 million. Intel had invested significant amounts of cash into some of these units and the PXA Xscale-based line was particularly popular in Linux-based products. They also powered the latest Treo and Blackberry.
Linux Novell Names Ron Hovsepian To Succeed Jack Messman as CEO Continuing the recent rash of high level departures, Jack Messman has been ousted by the Novell board. Taking his place is long time IBM'er Ron Hovsepian. The market reacted well to the news, with NOVL up over 10% on the press release (although still down sharply for the
Linux The Microsoft Exec Exodus On a topic I've covered multiple times recently, more execs are stepping down from Microsoft. Both Martin Taylor and Ted Hase are already gone, in fact. From the respective articles: Microsoft did not give details on why Martin Taylor left the world's biggest software maker after
Linux Why Oracle Isn't a Member of the OSDL In an interview with InternetNews Wim Coekaerts, who is the Director of Linux Engineering at Oracle, goes into some details on how Oracle is utilizing Linux. It's fantastic to see that "almost half of Oracle Application Server 10g Release 3 shipments were on Linux in the first
