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Dell and Linux on the Desktop

An interesting interview with Michael Dell about the Dell "Linux desktop strategy". The fact that he mentions Distrowatch by name means he clearly is following what is going on in the Linux world, even if only at a high level. He mentions the failed attempt Dell made back

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Is IBM Germany Leaving Vista for Linux ?

That's the rumor, based on comments made by Andreas Pleschek. From the article: Andreas Pleschek also told that IBM has canceled their contract with Microsoft as of October this year. That means that IBM will not use Windows Vista for their desktops. Beginning from July, IBM employees will

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GPL 3.0: A bonfire of the vanities?

In this perspective article, Jonathan Zuck makes a couple assertions, at least one of which I disagree with and at least one of which I agree with. The articles raises into question whether the GPL V3 has gone too far, which given the comments from multiple promininent Open Source leaders,

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LQ is LWE Boston Bound

It's official - LinuxQuestions.org will once again be a .org Pavilion participant at the LinuxWorld Expo in Boston. We just got the word! At this point it will be at least myself, Robin and John. I'll post more details soon, but I wanted to let

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Interviewed by Ronald Lewis

"Interviews with Ronald Lewis" has just posted an interview with yours truly. I met Ronald at the SCALE 4X top of the Radisson party. He's just starting out and it was a pleasure to be one of his first 10 interviews. He's getting quality

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2005 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners Announced

The polls are closed and the results are in for the 2005 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards. With well over 26,000 votes cast, the turnout for this has gotten better ever year we've done it. A couple of mild surprises IMHO this year, but nothing too crazy.

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LQ Conference Updates

Due to some last minute unforeseen circumstances, I won't be attending eTech next week. While I hate to miss eTech two years in a row, it just wasn't avoidable. I should be back in San Diego next month for the Desktop Linux Summit though. I will

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OSDL, Say It Ain't So

We all know how silly some of the "Get the facts" benchmarks/reports were. When I saw this commentary on the Linux TCO study that was recently co-sponsored by OSDL, I figured it was just the anti-Linux Rob Enderle we've grown accustomed to. Then I read

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MySQL Makes an Acquisition

A bit more on a previous post about the acquisition offer Oracle made MySQL recently. The more I think about it, the more I think SAP is the intended target here. Why? Just look at the money involved. While MySQL is profitable, the numbers involved in the MySQL balance sheet

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Google Windows Apps Coming to Linux

More on a topic I've covered before. It seems that Picasa may soon be coming to Linux. This won't be a native port, but rather is being done via a CodeWeaver's middleware layer. This means you probably won't need a wine or

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The Oracle MySQL Bid

A quick follow up to this post. It looks like Oracle did indeed attempt to acquire MySQL AB. The answer for MySQL AB CEO Marten Mickos? "We will be part of a larger company, but it will be called MySQL". So, are the 2 recent MySQL-related Oracle acquisitions

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Oracle's Open-Source Shopping Spree - SleepyCat

Looks like at least part of the Oracle shopping spree rumors were based in fact. They have recently announced the acquisition of SleepyCat. That's right - both of MySQL's viable transactional engine are now owned by Oracle. The claim that the two companies don't

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Back From SCALE 4x

I've been back from SCALE for a little while now, but some business craziness has been keeping me extremely busy so I haven't been able to comment yet. The event was fantastic - congrats to Ilan and the entire SCALE team...you did a fantastic job.

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Oracle's Open-Source Shopping Spree

I don't have too much time to put this post together (my plane to SCALE 4X leaves in about 2 hours) but I wanted to make a quick comment on this article about "Oracle's Open-Source Shopping Spree". This worries me a bit. One great

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Sun not Urged to Give up OpenOffice Control

A follow up to this post. Andy Updegrove points out that the title of the vnunet article is greatly exaggerated. Indeed it was, which disappointingly is becoming the norm these days. Anything to grab some eyeballs. I'd not go as far as to say it's a

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Sun Urged to Give up OpenOffice Control

Sun is being asked to create an independent foundation with OO.o, similar to what IBM did with Eclipse and what has been done with the Mozilla Foundation. One of the key reasons behind this, is that IBM is not willing to give code back to the project under the

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More LQ Social Networking

Work continues on the Social Networking aspects of LQ, which I first mentioned in this post. You can now easily find members using the same or similar Linux distributions as you. This is in addition to the ability to easily see your entire network and your friends entire network (and

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The Linux Kernel, DRM, GPLv3 and OpenSolaris

A follow up to an earlier post about the Linux kernel and the GPLv3. Linus has given a further explanation on why he doesn't like the current draft of the GPLv3. A lot of it seems to stem from the fact that he doesn't like the

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Goobuntu - What I Think of the Google OS

The rumors are flying about a Google Linux Desktop. My take? It ain't gonna happen. Not a general-OS type release... not any time soon. Now, it's no secret that many engineers inside Google use Linux (BTW, they use Linux on a couple servers too). Last time

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2005 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards

Voting is now open for the 2005 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards. This is the 5th year we've done the awards, and turnout has gotten better every time. The response from both the community and the award winners has been outstanding. We've revised categories a bit

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Just Booked my SCALE 4X Trip

Just booked a trip to LA for the upcoming SCALE 4x, which LQ is a sponsor of. Made this one a short trip - I'll be in LA less than 48 hours. I missed SCALE last year and it looked like a great show, so I'm

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Ask Microsoft's Security VP

An extremely interesting read, Slashdot has sent questions over to the Microsoft Security VP Mike Nash, who agreed to answer them with no PR scrubbing. A ton of information is in the response, which is a fairly long read. As you may have guessed, so of the information is good

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Microsoft to Open Windows to Please EU

So says this article in Forbes. Now, that's fantastic, but that's not what the EU wanted and is mostly useless. From the original EU press release: As regards interoperability, Microsoft is required, within 120 days, to disclose complete and accurate interface documentation which would allow non-Microsoft

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PHP 5.1.x and APC Problems

A quick update, since there seems to be more interest than I had anticipated asking for our experience with the upgraded LQ infrastructure. Apache 2.2.x has been absolutely rock solid as well as slightly faster (anecdotally) than the old 1.3.x. Nothing too substantial, but based on

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Just Added FOAF Support to Your LQ Profile

We all know that one of the benefits of OSS is the ability to avoid vendor lockin. One thing that often gets overlooked, however, is data lockin. As "Web Services" get more and more popular, the importance of data lockin will become more clear. One project that aims