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Reiser4 is Released

As you may know, I am a ResierFS fan.  I use it quite heavily on LQ in fact.  I am interested to see how Reiser4, which was just released looks - but I'll hold off for a little while myself.  Anyone else gave it a spin yet? --jeremy

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Web 2.0 Conference Coming Up

O'Reilly's Web 2.0 conference is coming up some and the speaker list looks great - Jeff Bezos, Mark Cuban, Tim O'Reilly - you get the idea.  "The web as platform, and its inevitable evolution into an internet operating system" seems like

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Open Source Marketing?

With Open Source software changing the face of the market, will Open Source marketing be next?  I'm not sold on this, but the article is an interesting read.  What do you think? --jeremy

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Jakob Nielsen on Open Source Usability

In this interview, Jakob Nielsen gives his opinion on the usability of Open Source apps.  Unfortunately, on some of his points it's hard to disagree.  The good news is that we are certainly making some inroads into some of the issues he brings up.  And as more large

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Novell's earnings increase thanks to lawsuit, Linux

It's good to see a Linux company making money.  What I found interesting in this article though, was the revenue breakdown for Novell.  Out of $304.6 million in revenue for the quarter ending July 3, only $12 million in revenue was from its Suse Linux business.  It&

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How eight pixels cost Microsoft millions

Here's proof that Americans sometimes forget that there is a whole world outside the USA.  I'm a bit guilty of it sometimes myself, to be fair.  But one of the great advantages of Linux (and Open Source in general) is that, due to the global nature

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LQ Wiki and LQ ISO Updates

Just wanted to give a quick update on 2 LQ projects. The LQ Wiki allows users to collaboratively build a free, complete and up-to-date Linux knowledgebase. It aims to become the largest general Linux Wiki on the web and uses a license from Creative Commons.  The LQ Wiki currently has

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Linux Certifications and the Job Market

According to this article, getting a Linux certification is not as important is having real world experience.  I'd have to say that I not only agree with this, but think it's the way things should be.  Passing a test, even a fairly difficult one like the

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Too Many Open Source Licenses?

Are there too many Open Source licenses?  With many companies starting to release their own OSS licenses, there are now over 50 that are approved by OSI.  Eric Raymond said OSI has been aware of the potential problem for a "couple of years," but things are not that

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Open Source Coming of Age?

An interview with John Terpstra, John Weathersby and Jim McQuillan has been posted to the Consortium Standards Bulletin.  The interview focuses on "the inevitable transition of the open source development model from a labor of engineering love to a more commercially influenced development process".  As Open Source matures

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Linus Torvalds Interviewed

Business Week has an interesting interview with Linus.  He comments on Linux/Open Source innovation, the biggest challenges facing Linux, kernel development organization and process and his role as "benevolent dictator".  One of my favorite quotes: I am a dictator, but it's the right kind of

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Linux Economics II

Another remark I often see posted is that Open Source will put all programmers out of a job.  This is not the case though, in reality.  Most programming work is custom development done in house.  These jobs would not be impacted by the release of gratis software.  Another flaw with

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Pentagon Turns to Linux

Looks like the U.S. Department of Defense is now relying on two 256-processor Linux Networx Evolocity cluster supercomputers to improve on complex computerized battlefield simulations.  Good to see that Linux is continuing to make progress getting larger government installs.  That part that really struck me was: "David Morton,

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IBM Files Motion For Partial Summary Judgment

Good to see that things are still moving in the right direction in the SCO case.  Things are continuing to unravel for SCOX and one has to wonder how much longer this can go on for.  IBM is claiming that all parties involved in the contract between them and AT&

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Newham Chooses All Microsoft Solution

Looks like Microsoft and the Newham Council have signed a ten year agreement, worth millions, that makes Microsoft the exclusive platform for the London borough.  The decision was based, at least partially, on a report done by CapGemini that concluded that the MSFT solution would be 68% cheaper then an

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Unisys...and Linux??

It looks like Unisys, the company that tried to sue webmasters for using gifs built with GIMP (and other "non-licensed" apps), has the escape from unix, and pushes windows on the mainframe is suddenly a Linux advocate.  Now, don't get me wrong - it makes sense

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Linux Economics

While I don't agree with everything in this article it makes some good points and brings up a topic I continually see - that Linux, and more specifically Open Source, is bad for the economy, will cause famine, and promotes communism.  Now, while it's true that

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MySQL Licensing Demystified

I've seen a lot of confusion lately regarding the dual licensing that MySQL uses.  The MySQL website had included a clause regarding internal distribution that seemed to counter the GPL a bit and it seemed to worry people.  This article mentions that the clause has been removed and

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LQ ISO Linux Download Site

About three days ago, we decided to add some stats to LQ ISO.  Before three full days are up, over 1,000 Linux ISO's will have already been downloaded.  Not too shabby for a site that is only 10 days old.  The site already has 30 distros available

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Linux Adoption Exceeds Oracle's Expectations

This article points out that the rate of Linux adoption has far exceeded Oracle's expectations.  From the article: Linux has been adopted more quickly and saved more money for its users than Oracle Corp. anticipated, said director of Linux engineering Wim Coekaerts. The surprises will keep coming, as

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Plogging

An interesting article has been posted over at the IT Garage.  From the article: The game is plogging — short for presidential blogging, and it bypasses the entire PR apparatus, as well as the traditionally blah forms of published speech by CXOs. Think of it as DIY PR for the people

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Circuit City moving to Linux

Looks like IBM announced that consumer electronics retailer Circuit City expects to be running most of its critical day-to-day computing functions on Linux by 2006.  From the press release: Richmond, Va. and Armonk, N.Y., August 10, 2004 -- Circuit City Stores, Inc. and IBM announced today that they are

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SCO May Raise License Fees

Seems that with the litigation failing and the SCOSource revenue not being what it used to be (now that MSFT is not buying licenses), SCOX is resorting to threatening to raise the price of licenses.  This means if you don't act quick and grab one now, you may

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Delay to Munich's Linux Adoption

It seems that the delay to the Munich Linux migration may have been a bit exaggerated.  From the article: "In a press statement issued on August 4, the city administration confirmed it was "standing by Linux," correcting press reports that the project had been put on ice.

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Linux, Patents and OSRM

This article has a good overview of the recent report commissioned by Open Source Risk Management.  The report found 283 patents that could potentially be infringing, in the Linux kernel.  Luckily, there were zero patents that have survived reviews in court and over 100 of them were held by so