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SCALE 6X

I'm in LA for SCALE 6X.  If you're in the SoCal area and able to attend, i recommend it.  Last night was fairly tame by SCALE standards, but I'd expect things to kick into full gear tonight.  As always the speaker line up looks

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Sun acquires MySQL

Sun made a huge announcement today.  They are acquiring MySQL AB, for roughly $1,000,000,000.  From Jonathan: But the biggest news of the day is... we're putting a billion dollars behind the M in LAMP. If you're an industry insider, you'll know

Apple

Is Apple Killing Linux on the Desktop?

It looks like some think that OS X may be "killing" Linux on the desktop.  I'm not sure that's the case, but it's an interesting point to explore.  It's true that Apple has a much higher percentage of desktop users

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Open Source Code Contains Security Holes

That's the title of a recent InformationWeek article.  I hope this doesn't come as a surprise to anyone.  All code contains bugs, and some of those bugs may turn into security issues. Open source code, much like its commercial counterpart, tends to contain one security exposure

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On the record with Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat's new CEO

When Red Hat announced that Jim Whitehurst, the COO of Delta, would be taking over for Matthew Szulik there were quite a few skeptics.  As I noted, going outside the tech industry for a CEO has had both its ups and downs.  After reading this interview of Jim Whitehurst by

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Voting for the 2007 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards is Now Open

I just opened the polls for the 2007 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards.  There are 27 polls this year, more than even before.  This is the 7th time we've run the LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards, and we've had a record turnout each and every year.

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Matthew Szulik resigns as Red Hat CEO, is replaced by an airline COO

Matthew Szulik has somewhat abruptly announced his departure as CEO of Red Hat.  He will remain on as chairman of the board.  It's extremely sad to see this is a result of family illness (which is sometimes a euphemism in CEO departures, but in this case is legitimate

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Red Hat: BofA Downgrades; Cites Troubles With JBoss

(via Matt) Following news that Novell may be building momentum comes news that Bank of America has downgraded RHT.  As is often the case with stock analysts, more are piling on the downgrade now.  From Barrons: Red Hat (RHT) shares are lower today after Bank of America analyst Kirk Materne

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Some Novell Momentum

It looks like Novell might be quietly building up some momentum.  First came news that Office Depot is consolidating onto the SLES platform: In its latest significant victory, Novell announced that Office Depot has elected to consolidate its server infrastructure on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 1. In

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Torvalds on where Linux is headed in 2008

A key benefit of Linux, and Open Source in general, is flexibility.  Linus underscores this in a recent interview: In your opinion, where does Linux shine versus Windows? Reliability? Virtualisation? I think the real strength of Linux is not in any particular area, but in the flexibility. For example, you

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HP CEO: Vista Never Had Its Moment in 2007

It's clear that OEMs just don't fear Microsoft like they used to.  From a recent CIO article: Wondering what's happened to momentum for Microsoft's Vista operating system in corporate America? Fact is, enterprise IT has continued to decline the Vista plate like

Dell

Solaris and Dell

Jonathan recently announced a partnership with Dell on his blog. First, we announced a key relationship with Dell, through which they'll be OEM'ing Solaris, and directly supporting customers running Solaris on Dell systems. Second, we announced our free/open source virtualization roadmap, starting with xVM and

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OLPC Give One Get One program is now live

The OLPC Give One Get One program is now officially open. One learning child. One connected child. One laptop at a time. The mission of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is to empower the children of developing countries to learn by providing one connected laptop to every school-age child. In

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Linux wins Nigerian school desktops back from Microsoft

It looks like the open letter to Steve Ballmer from Mandriva may have had an impact.  From the article: Mandriva had closed a deal in mid-August to provide a customised Linux operating system and support for 17,000 Intel Classmate PCs intended for Nigerian schools, but found out last week

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Amazon to host Red Hat Linux online

In a move that's somewhat divergent from the direction they've been headed, Red Hat recently announced that RHEL will soon be available on the Amazon EC2 platform.  I say somewhat divergent because Red Hat had been clearly focused on the Enterprise market for a while now.

Apple

Where's my Gphone?

Google finally made the highly anticipated Gphone related announcement today: Despite all of the very interesting speculation over the last few months, we're not announcing a Gphone. However, we think what we are announcing -- the Open Handset Alliance and Android -- is more significant and ambitious than

Fedora

How badly is CentOS hurting Red Hat?

That's the question asked in this article: Why does Red Hat tolerate CentOS? The Community ENTerprise Operating System is an identical binary clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (minus the trademarks), compiled from the source code RPMs that Red Hat conveniently provides on its FTP site. It is

Adobe

Some LinuxQuestions.org Stats

Every once and a while I like to post a quick update that includes some stats about LQ.  Here are a couple for the month of October 2007. Browsers * A total of 277 distinct Browsers visited LQ last month.  Those with more than 1%: Firefox61.99% IE24.14% Mozilla5.50%

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An open letter to Steve Ballmer from Mandriva

The CEO of Mandriva just posted an open letter to Steve Ballmer: I’m sure we’re way too small for you to know me. You know, we’re one of these tiny Linux company working hard for our place on the market. We produce a Linux Distro, Mandriva Linux.

Dell

Linux Losing Market Share to Windows Server II

As a quick follow up to this post, it seems that Dell is not seeing the same trend.  From the article: Dell CEO: Linux server sales increasing Claims made by Microsoft that Linux violates its software patent have not affected sales of Linux-based hardware, according to Dell's CEO

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Linux Losing Market Share to Windows Server

That's the title of this eWeek article: Linux growth in the U.S. x86 server market has, over the past six quarters, started to falter and reverse its positive course relative to Windows Server and the market as a whole. The annual rate at which Linux is growing

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Devices Lacking Linux Support Needed

Greg KH recently announced that Novell was letting him work on the Linux Driver Project full time.  The response was huge, with over 300 developers answering the call.  Lack of Linux drivers is usually pretty high up on the list of Linux shortcomings.  But a follow up post by Greg

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Asian Linux Distributor Strikes Patent Covenant with Microsoft

Looks like Microsoft struck another patent deal with a Linux distribution, this time it's Turbolinux.  From the article: In a deal that could lead to the creation of a unique cross-platform authentication system for heterogenous networks, Tokyo-based Linux distributor Turbolinux announced this morning, Japan time, it has reached

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Microsoft and the EU anti-trust battle

Earlier this week, Microsoft agreed with the EU Commission’s 2004 ruling that it was abusing its dominance in the market in the workgroup server market and would not appeal against a further EU court ruling, which upheld the Commission’s initial findings.  Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner for competition policy,

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SCO still hanging on

After filing for Chapter 11, SCO may have found a buyer for its UNIX operations.  From the article: While still fighting in the courts and fresh from filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last month, The SCO Group could soon be selling its steadily-declining Unix business. In a filing in