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
Main Page An Interview with Neelie Kroes A quick follow up to a story I have been covering. An interview with Neelie Kroes, competition commissioner for the European Union, has just been posted on cNet. From the interview: Do you believe Microsoft answered your questions truthfully? Kroes: Microsoft has claimed that its obligations in the decision are
Main Page Microsoft hit with 280m euro fine The EU has indeed followed through, as promised, and fined Microsoft almost $357m USD. From the article: EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said she had "no alternative but to levy penalty payments" against Microsoft, adding that "no company is above the law". "I regret that,
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
Main Page EU poised to rule against Microsoft After being successfully prosecuted by the DOJ, but escaping any serious punishment by a new incoming administration, it looks like the EU may actually follow through with some bite to its bark. With the $2M Euro per day fine (about $2.5M USD) potentially being back dated to December 2005,
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
Linux 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
Main Page Bill Gates to Step Down from Microsoft And I thought Scoble leaving was big news. That was until Microsoft announced plans for a July 2008 Transition for Bill Gates. From the press release: The company announced that Chief Technical Officer Ray Ozzie will immediately assume the title of chief software architect and begin working side by side
Linux 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
Linux 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
Linux 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
Linux 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,
Linux 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
Linux 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
Main Page Steve Ballmer Attempts to Fix Spyware It looks like Steve Ballmer recently offered to uninfest someones computer and wasn't able to fix it, nor were a team of top Microsoft engineers. So says Jim Allchin in this article. Seems more like a marketing ploy than a true story to me. The odds the Ballmer
Linux 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
Linux 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
Main Page The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time I found it interesting that 3 of the top 10 in the 25 Worst Tech Products were of Microsoft origin. The one that really sticks out to me is Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (2001), coming in at number 8. The fact that the most current browser from a company that
Linux 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
