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Mundie Speaks on OSS

Craig Mundie, who was recently made chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft, was interviewed by eWeek and commented on the GPL.  His response to the question about interoperability with Open Source (and specifically the GPL): I have been one of the principle people architecting the way we are going

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Can Windows and Open Source Learn to Play Nice?

Bob Muglia, the senior vice president of Microsoft's server and tools business, talked about just that question with eWeek at the recent TechEd conference (where I am told there was at least one LQ shirt on the floor ;)  One quote that stuck out to me was: A commercial

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Broken Windows Theory

An interesting post from a former members of the Windows team on why he thinks Vista slipped.  It's clear at this point that Vista is complicated... almost certainly more complicated than it needs to be.  An architectural diagram of Windows would suggest there are more than 50 dependency

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Native Port of Google Earth Comes to Linux

When I saw that a native port of Google Earth would be coming soon, I didn't think it would be that soon.  With the help of icculus, Google has ported Earth to Linux using Qt and OpenGL.  I've had a chance to download it onto a

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Reliability Survey: Windows Servers Beat Linux Boxes

Well, we haven't seen one of these reports in a while.  From the article: Windows 2003 Server, in fact, led the popular Red Hat Enterprise Linux with nearly 20 percent more annual uptime. 20 percent more annual uptime?!?!? What math was used to come to that conclusion?  Well,

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Google Follows Through Follow up

I recently covered the Google release of Picasa for Linux.  As I noted then, it was great to see that Google followed though on their promise and release a major app on Linux, but it was a little disappointing to see that the support came via wine as opposed to

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Lenovo To Shun Linux

In an extremely odd move, computer maker Lenovo will not install or support Linux  on any of its PCs, including Thinkpads and a series of new notebooks.  Why is this odd?  Well, the Thinkpad had an extremely large Linux following - one that IBM worked fairly hard to build.  Go

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TreoQuestions.org Officially Launched

I am happy to announce that TreoQuestions.org is now out of beta and officially launched.  I'm looking forward to the challenge of growing a site from scratch, while also continuing to build and grow LQ (which is just about to hit 250,000 registered members).  While this

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Why the light has gone out on LAMP

I have no idea how things like this make news sites like slashdot (or maybe I do I guess...).  It's a couple paragraph rant that contains no real facts, huge generalizations and not much more.  The fact is, MySQL and PHP are just fine if you use them

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Google Follows Through

Following up on a topic I've talked about before, Google has released Picasa for Linux.  As speculated though, it's not a native port, but a Wine rollup.  It's great to see Google follow up on the promise they made to support Linux apps, but

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Red Hat Not Satisfied with Sun's New Java License

This seems like an odd move by Red Hat.  Now, I know they don't necessarily get along with Sun, but calling them out on the Distro License after Sun has announced its intention to Open Source Java and giving incompatibility with OLPC as the main reason??  Come on

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Novell Partner Linux Driver Process

Novell recently did a press release entitled "Novell Delivers Device Driver Breakthrough to Accelerate Linux Adoption.  With device drivers being a sometimes maligned aspect of Linux, I was interested in exactly what Novell was going to do.  After reading the press release, I really had no idea.  After poking

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Can the ordinary computer user ditch Windows for Linux?

That's the questions Mark Golden recently asked in the Wall Street Journal.  His conclusion? For me, though, using the Linux systems didn't make sense. I often send documents and spreadsheets between my home PC and the one at work, which uses Microsoft Office. And the files

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Freespire and the Proprietary Software Debate

At the recent Desktop Linux Summit, Kevin Carmony announced the release of Freespire.  From the site: Freespire is a community-driven, Linux-based operating system that combines the best that free, open source software has to offer (community driven, freely distributed, open source code, etc.), but also provides users the choice of

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Introducing TreoQuestions.org

I'm proud to announce that we've added a new site to the LQ family.  TreoQuestions.org is in many ways modeled after LQ, but is a 100% separate and distinct entity that will have a flavor all its own.  The site has a Treo forum, a

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Desktop Linux Summit Update

Now the Desktop Linux Summit update.  The show is a little shorter than some (only 2 days) and has three  tracks, but the tracks were pretty jam packed.  No longer at the fair grounds, DLS has upgraded to the Grand Hyatt.  Doc Searls had an extremely interesting and funny presentation

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MySQL User Conference Update

I should probably post a Desktop Linux Summit update first, since that event happened first, but I'm still at the MySQL UC and have a couple minutes before the next session.  The conference has been very good so far.  It opened with Martin Mikos, the CEO, having some

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Desktop Linux Summit and MySQL User Conference

Kind of a last minute decision, but I'll be attending both the Desktop Linux Summit and the MySQL User Conference next week.  LinuxQuestions.org is a sponsor of both. Getting to both these on such short notice was both easier and cheaper than I'd have thought,

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Should Linux Allow Proprietary Drivers?

I've covered this topic a bit before and it certainly fits into my recent discussion of what are we as a community willing to give up if we want to see mass adoption (latest part of that discussion here).  A recent article, entitled New Linux look fuels old

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Microsoft Admits to Hiding Flaw Details

While it's been suspected for some time now, Microsoft has publicly admitted that they silently fix some vulnerabilities with absolutely no disclosure at all.  From the article: "We want to make sure we don't give attackers any [additional] information that could be used against our

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LinuxWorld Boston Wrapup

Taking a quick look at my last post (which is tagged LinuxWorld, I realized that I never posted a LinuxWorld wrapup.  LQ once again exhibited at LWE in the .org Pavilion.  We've been participants in numerous cities from New York to San Francisco to Boston to London.  Exhibiting

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Real networks, DRM and Linux

It looks like Jeff Ayars from Real had the following to say at LinuxWorld in Boston:    "The consequences of Linux not supporting DRM would be that fixed-purpose consumer electronics and Windows PCs would be the sole entertainment platforms available," Ayers said. "Linux would be further relegated to

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Jboss vs Red Hat, who is more Open Source

Sometimes after I blog about something, I click the technorati tags for the post and check out what others are saying about the topic I've posted about.  In fact, I did so for the previous post, entitled Red Hat Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire JBoss.  Indeed, I found

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Red Hat Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire JBoss

The rumors were wrong.  Oracle isn't going to acquire Jboss, Red Hat is.  A very interesting move I think, one that is a little more aggressive than Red Hat has been lately.  RHAT went up almost 10% on the news.  From the press release: Red Hat will acquire

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LQ Now Fully Supports Tagging

I've talked about Social Networking at LQ a couple times before.  We've taken that a step further today and the site now fully supports tagging.  While the hierarchical layout of a forum is great for classifying information, it does lack a little in the way of