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Open source: Rebels at the gate

General 8068 Published 2002-10-15 10:08 by Philipp Esselbach 0

CNET News has posted an article on Open Source and Microsoft:

"For years, Bill Gates and other top executives at Microsoft railed against the economic philosophy of open-source software with Orwellian fervor, denouncing its communal licensing as a "cancer" that stifled technological innovation.

Today, Microsoft claims to "love" the open-source concept, by which software code is made public to encourage improvement and development by outside programmers. Gates himself says Microsoft will gladly disclose its crown jewels--the coveted code behind the Windows operating system--to select customers."

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Sun's Linux leader ready to use Linux

General 8068 Published 2002-10-09 23:11 by Philipp Esselbach 0

InfoWorld has posted a news story about Sun's move to Linux:

"John Loiacono, vice president of operating platforms at Sun, was spotted using Windows on his corporate laptop last month here at the Sun Network conference. Since that time, Loiacono has moved to Linux on both his work and home computers, as part of a company-wide program to abandon Windows altogether within Sun. With Sun's operating system chief coming up to speed on Linux, the company can bolster its claims that the open source OS's time as a desktop for big business may have come."

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Itanium gets Linux supercomputer boost

General 8068 Published 2002-10-09 23:08 by Philipp Esselbach 0

CNET News reports that Quadrics has made its products compatible with systems built around Intel's Itanium 2 chip.

"The move is small victory in Intel's long-running campaign to build a complete set of computing technology around the high-end Itanium family, a dramatic departure from its mainstream Pentium, Xeon and Celeron processors. The Itanium family has been slow to catch on, in part because it requires that software be overhauled. "

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Linux TCO: Less Than Half The Cost of Windows

General 8068 Published 2002-10-09 12:31 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Saw over PCLinuxOnline that EarthWeb has posted a Linux TCO article

"The cost of running Linux is roughly 40% that of Microsoft Windows, and only 14% that of Sun Microsystem's Solaris, according to a new study which examined the actual costs of running various operating systems over three years."

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IBM rolls out spruced-up AIX, Unix/Linux clustering software

General 8068 Published 2002-10-08 17:08 by Philipp Esselbach 0

InfoWorld has posted two Linux related news stories:

IBM rolls out spruced-up AIX, Unix/Linux clustering software
IBM CONTINUES ITS cascade of mainframe-class technologies down onto its lower-end servers, announcing on Tuesday a new version of AIX 5L that can carry out workload balancing as well as new clustering software for managing clusters made up of Unix and Intel-based Linux servers.

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Lindows to court: "windows" is generic term
SOFTWARE MAKER LINDOWS.COM said Tuesday that it has filed for a summary judgment in its battle against Microsoft, claiming that the similarities between the Lindows and Windows names do not impede on Microsoft's copyrights since "windows" is a generic term for a type of software product.

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Opinion: Who killed IE for Unix?

General 8068 Published 2002-10-05 22:26 by Philipp Esselbach 0

ExtremeTech has posted an article on the disappearance of IE for Unix:

Somebody at Microsoft recently decided to whack Internet Explorer for Unix. Why was it killed? Who pulled the trigger? Lots of questions but, unfortunately, few answers...

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Linux heavies play version name game

General 8068 Published 2002-10-03 11:31 by Philipp Esselbach 0

CNET News has a new story on the next Kernel version number:

"Linus Torvalds and other central Linux programmers are debating whether the next version of the operating system should be numbered 2.6, or if its new features merit the grander designation 3.0."

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IBM sells Linux to retailers

General 8068 Published 2002-09-25 11:12 by Philipp Esselbach 0

CNET News has posted some Linux related news:

IBM sells Linux to retailers
IBM has made some progress in its effort to spread the Linux operating system far and wide, selling thousands of high-tech cash registers to two sizable customers.

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Start-up banks on hack-proof Linux
Start-up Guardian Digital has launched an effort to sell a version of Linux that's less vulnerable to attack, a niche the company hopes will gain it a foothold in the market for the Unix-like operating system.

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MySQL adding transaction support to open-source database

General 8068 Published 2002-09-21 23:24 by Philipp Esselbach 0

InfoWorld reports that MySQL is adding transactional support to its database

"In an announcement to be officially made on Monday, MySQL will announce that transactional support will be added to MySQL Pro, the version of the company's database that is intended for corporate deployment. Transactional support had been in MySQL Max, an experimental version of the product."

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Sun details plans to sell Linux desktops

General 8068 Published 2002-09-19 01:31 by Philipp Esselbach 0

InfoWorld reports that Sun unveiled its plans to offer Linux desktop computers

"Sun will target the machines initially at businesses, governments, and schools for use in call centers, retail banks, classrooms, and other settings where the full functionality of a PC isn't needed, said Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's executive vice president of software, who showed one of the systems for the first time here at the start of the SunNetwork conference. The systems are being developed at Sun under the name Project Mad Hatter."

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IBM pSeries to Offer Native Linux

General 8068 Published 2002-09-18 23:11 by Philipp Esselbach 0

eWeek reports that the new IBM pSeries will run Linux natively

"IBM will soon introduce new versions of its high-end p690 and p670 servers designed to run Linux natively."

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SuSE Linux Drops StarOffice

General 8068 Published 2002-09-18 23:07 by Philipp Esselbach 0

eWeek reports that SuSE drops StarOffice

"Instead the German-based Linux vendor is opting for the free OpenOffice alternative. "

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Sun to shed light on desktop Linux plans

General 8068 Published 2002-09-17 21:26 by Philipp Esselbach 0

InfoWorld has posted an article on Sun's desktop Linux plans

"Sun Microsystems is expected to unveil a Frankenstein-like desktop Linux strategy this week, combining various software elements developed in-house or by open-source community projects and third-party vendors."

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Red Hat to Simplify Desktop UIs

General 8068 Published 2002-09-17 21:20 by Philipp Esselbach 0

eWeek has posted an article on Red Hat

"Red Hat, the open-source and Linux technology provider, has moved to explain its decision to configure the KDE and GNOME desktop environments to look and behave in similar fashion in the upcoming release of Red Hat Linux."

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HP, Red Hat team on Linux workstation

General 8068 Published 2002-09-17 09:10 by Philipp Esselbach 0

CNET News reports that Hewlett-Packard has begun selling new workstations using Intel's Itanium 2 processor and a new higher-end version of Red Hat Linux:

Red Hat had planned to release its Advanced Workstation product in the first half of 2003, but accelerated the schedule as part of an expanded alliance, said Mike Evans, vice president of business development at Red Hat.

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Red Hat, IBM expand Linux deal

General 8068 Published 2002-09-16 15:55 by Philipp Esselbach 0

CNET News reports that Red Hat and IBM have expanded a partnership:

The multiyear deal, which will be announced Monday, boosts Red Hat's Advanced Server version, which comes with higher-end features than Red Hat's other versions of Linux. Red Hat, the top seller of the Linux operating system, has already signed deals under which IBM rivals Hewlett-Packard and Dell Computer back Advanced Server.

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Interested in doing Linux development for the WinTV-PVR 250/350?

General 8068 Published 2002-09-06 14:55 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Just received the follow from Anthony:

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UnitedLinux Article

General 8068 Published 2002-09-05 05:07 by Philipp Esselbach 0

MozillaQuest has posted an article on LSB, UnitedLinux, and the Linux Market:

"Part of the phenomenal success of Linux has been the tremendous spirit of cooperation and camaraderie among the producers of Linux distributions. Through that spirit of cooperation and camaraderie, as well as the efforts of the entire Linux community, Linux has managed to eat away some at Microsoft's dominance in the operating system arena.

Nevertheless, Microsoft still owns some 85% to 90% of the personal-computer operating-system market. If Linux is to become more of a major player in that operating system arena, it has its work cut out for it."

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Ogg Vorbis tunes in to hardware

General 8068 Published 2002-09-04 14:12 by Philipp Esselbach 0

CNET News has posted an article on Ogg Vorbis:

"Ogg Vorbis, an audio format created to provide a royalty-free alternative to MP3, could at last be making its way into portable digital audio players.

The format reached a milestone 1.0 release earlier this year, and now the Xiph.org Foundation, which coordinates Ogg Vorbis development, has released an open-source Ogg Vorbis player that will work with ordinary digital music player hardware. Xiph has also offered to give hardware makers free engineer time to help them integrate the format into their offerings."

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$199 Lindows PC at Walmart

General 8068 Published 2002-08-31 02:44 by Philipp Esselbach 0

CNET News reports that Walmart has a new Lindows based PC for $199:

"Taiwan chipmaker Via helped drop the PC price bar a little lower Friday, announcing that it will supply the processors for a new line of Wal-Mart PCs that start at $199.

The new $199 PC, available now at Wal-Mart's shopping site, will use Lindows and an 800MHz version of Via's C3 processor. It does not come with a monitor."

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