Linux LinuxWorld Canada Visionary Series - John 'maddog' Hall While I was a tad late to this session by maddog, entitled "Free and Open Source Software: Back to the Future", the part I did catch was very good. His first point was that, until the early 80's the only way you ever got software was
Linux LinuxWorld Canada - Day 1 I'm back from day 1 of LinuxWorld Canada. The show definitely has a different feel that the other LinuxWorlds, mostly as a result of the expo floor being shared between LinuxWorld and NetworkWorld. The conference is more "suit" than even the East coast US show and
Linux LinuxWorld Canada Just a reminder that LinuxWorld Canada, which is being held in Toronto, will run from April 19th-20th. I'll be making the trip, so if you'd like to meet up for any reason, drop me a line. Remember, since LQ is a show sponsor, I am able
Linux BitKeeper and Linux II This seems to be getting uglier and uglier. I've still not had the amount of time needed to properly sort out all the info here, but I'm a bit surprised the fallout has been this bad. There is a real danger of the community becoming fractured
Linux Munich Chooses Debian as its Distro Looks like Munich has selected a Distro for its Linux migration. While it was Suse, along with IBM, that did the original year-long pilot, the city choose to go with Debian for the final rollout. One has to wonder if Suse would have been selected if it was still an
Linux Want to Win an LQ Shirt? Interested in helping to spread the word about LinuxQuestions.org and have the chance to win a great limited edition LQ shirt in the process? The latest LQ Contest has begun. Good luck. --jeremy
Linux BitKeeper and Linux I'm back and just starting to catchup on things. Looks like there was some drama while I was away. It appears that Linus will no longer be using Bitkeeper for the main Linux repository after Larry revoked the free license. You can get some of the details here,
Linux Dell Offering Linux Preloads Again? It appears that Dell is once again offering workstations preloaded with Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS to be exact). A major manufacturer selling Linux workstations is something that has been sorely needed, and hopefully once one major manufacturer starts others will follow. It's easy to be a
Linux MySQL Grows Up While it's great to see MySQL maturing, one has to hope that they don't forget where they came from or why they are so popular. It's fantastic that they are adding stored procedures, triggers, views and ACID features to MySQL ('fixing 10 years
Linux How Progeny Survived the Dot-com Crash An interesting article about how Progeny was able to weather the dot-com crash and turn into a profitable company. Some words of wisdom from Ian Murdock, who was a major reason that Progeny was able to stay afloat. --jeremy
Linux LQ ISO update LQ ISO is now smart enough to know what country you are visiting from and show you mirrors in your country before all others. Of course you still have the ability to choose from the full mirror list, but this feature should make finding a close download mirror that much
Linux I'll be on the Linux Link Tech Show Tonight II In case you weren't able to listen to the Linux Link Tech Show last night, I've posted an OGG of the show. Hopefully you'll find the segment I was in interesting ;) I come in just about 38 minutes into the show. --jeremy
Linux I'll be on the Linux Link Tech Show Tonight Looks like I'll be on The Linux Link Tech Show tonight. The show starts at 8:30 EST. Tune in! --jeremy
Linux A GPL Win in Michigan - DrewTech v. SAE I was extremely excited when I read the above headline...and then I read the article. It's great to see that the attorney thinks that the "SAE surrendered to the GPL" and I'm certainly glad that the side representing the the GPL came out
Linux Danese Cooper: reflections of an open source diva A great article from Danese Cooper, who was an Open Source evangelist at Sun and will soon be going to Intel. This article is a good look inside Sun and it shows that some people there really truly do get it. The article touches on Open Sourcing Java and also
Linux LinuxWorld Canada Followup - Free Passes and a Discount I'm happy to report that as a result of LQ sponsoring LinuxWorld Canada, I am able to offer free passes to everyone. Additionally, if you'd like to purchase a conference pass, you can get 25% off by using code A101. We're still finalizing whether
Linux A Couple LQ Initiatives I hate to use the word "Initiatives" actually. It sounds much too corporate and much too office space for what LQ really is. I couldn't think of a better word though, and it probably won't send LQ into a whirl of red tape and
Linux LQ to Sponsor LinuxWorld Canada I am happy to report that LinuxQuestions.org is going to be sponsoring the upcoming LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Canada which will be held on April 18 - 20, 2005 in the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. As of now it even looks like LQ may be exhibiting, so stay tuned
Linux Ubuntu Joins LQ I am happy to announce that Ubuntu has joined LinuxQuestions.org. Visit the Ubuntu Forum. Welcome aboard and thanks for your participation. On a related note, if you know someone at a distribution that doesn't participate at LQ but would like to, please contact me. All distributions are
Linux Sun vs. Red Hat Is it just me, or do you get the feeling that the media really wants a Red Hat vs. Sun battle. Maybe it's because Jonathan Schwartz keeps equating Linux to Red Hat, but I'd guess that it's just because it makes a good story.
Linux Trouble in Paradise? With Mozilla having an uncertain future and the Firefox development process being called into question, is the project doomed? One really has to hope not. With Firefox being so mainstream, for it to falter would be a huge setback for Open Source (whether deserved or not), at least from a
Linux Yarro-Canopy Cases Settle Looks the Canopy Cases that we mentioned in a recent LQ Podcast have now been settled. Here are some additional details. Looks to me like the counter suit had more merit than the actual suit. The details of the settlements have not been released at this point. Sad to think
Linux Tiemann New OSI President It looks like Russ Nelson has stepped down as the OSI President, to be replaced by Michael Tiemann. I've had a chance to talk to Michael on several occasions and I'm sure he'll do a great job as interim president (it looks like his
Linux Sowing the Seeds of Open Source Advocacy An interesting article about properly advocating Open Source by Jono Bacon has been posted to LinuxDevCenter. Some good points are made and overall it's an article that almost anyone can glean some useful info from. It's sometime easy to get overzealous and I think we'
Linux Microsoft and Shipping Software An interesting perspective from a really smart guy who worked at Microsoft for 15+ years and now works at Google. From the post: I would argue that Microsoft used to know how to ship software, but the world has changed... An good read from someone who has seen both sides
