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Source: Linux Today In that long and contentious year, what began as an incremental revision to a fifteen year old license has become a highly charged debate, a purported battle for the soul of Free and Open Source Software
Source: Linux Today At the time, most of us thought Oracle undercutting Red Hat's Linux business with its Unbreakable Linux was a big deal
Source: Linux Today With only 20 days left before FOSDEM, we have published the first batch of interviews with our speakers
Source: Linux Today Inland Revenue has eschewed Microsoft Vista and will instead upgrade to Windows XP, while continuing to evaluate the merits of a switch to open source rival Linux
Source: Linux Today According to Sam Ramji, Microsoft's director of platform technology strategy, the companies are looking for a few good program managers and software engineers to populate that joint research facility
Source: Linux Today A subsequent post revealed that Netscape 9 will be released simultaneously for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Netscape Browser 8 is only available for Windows
Source: Linux Today Despite bad press, and discouraging comments from various sources in the Toronto Linux community that we shouldn't be unprofessional, and that we're giving Linux a bad name, Operation Cold Comfort was an absolute success
Source: Linux Today Authorities employ tactics for bridging digital divide while avoiding, if not fighting, software piracy
Source: Linux Today But unlike most open source software launches and even open source association beginnings, OSA founders are unwilling to be quoted by name about their plans before their formal launch
Source: Linux Today Bruce Perens, an author of the Open Source Definition that codified elements of the collaborative programming philosophy, is set to bring the approach to hardware designs
Source: Linux Today The penguin's come of age. What began as a battle between proprietary and open source Linux software, started by geeks around the world, isn't plain tech rhetoric anymore
Source: Linux Today Businesses must know what to look for in a project's leadership, community, and level of innovation. The wrong choice can cost you
Source: Linux Today Eben Moglen, the Software Freedom Law Center's executive director and an FSF board member, explained: 'This is a story being hyped by the Reuters guy who wrote it '
Source: Linux Today "In a widely anticipated move, Linux 'headcase' Torvalds today announced the immediate availability of the most advanced Linux kernel to date, version 2.6.20 "
Source: Linux Today In 2003 he founded Reductive Labs to work on new open source automation and administration tools, and Puppet is its first major project
Source: Linux Today Designed to write long documents, Writer is in many ways a document processor comparable to FrameMaker, suitable for designing books and dissertations while falling short of a complete desktop publishing solution
Source: Linux Today Don't you hate it when you have a problem, only to be told, 'On my machine, it just works'? I know I do
Source: Linux Today The RAR and 7-Zip file compression formats originated on Windows, so support for them on Linux is not as automatic as it is for old Unix holdovers like Gzip and TAR
Source: Linux Today Bash is one of those Unix things that I am fully aware has a lot more potential and power than I know how to use. Every so often I go looking for another handful of useful things to learn about it: this is a selection of recent ones
Source: Linux Today Artistic geeks often find creative ways to combine technology and art. A love for good software and beautiful guitars is what inspired Canadian luthier Mark Kett to begin the Linux Guitar Project
Source: Linux Today With BixData you can monitor your servers as well as VMware and Xen. BixData includes pre-built plugins for things like CPU, Memory, Disk, etc. but any good monitoring tool needs to be customizable
Source: Linux Today Dijkstra said, ';Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability,' but really, a virtualization system in 6,000 lines of code ?
Source: Linux Today Companies have completed the first phase of a Microsoft-sponsored project to create software that can convert Microsoft Word documents between Open XML and Open Document Format for Office Applications file formats
Source: Linux Today Avant Window Navgator (Awn) is a dock-like bar which sits at the bottom of the screen (in all its composited-goodness) tracking open windows
Source: Linux Today We need to understand sprints--you do, we do, all of us. For several years now, we've had the intention to explain computing sprints in 'Regular Expressions '
Source: Linux Today As the government's advisory body for IT in schools, Becta has a challenging role balancing the needs of Westminster, local authorities, schools, teachers and pupils, while negotiating huge contracts with some of the world's biggest suppliers
Source: Linux Today Open-source software company Zend Technologies, hoping to double its revenue this year, says it will narrow its focus to big business and Web 2.0-style start-ups, according to incoming CEO Harold Goldberg
Source: Linux Today A preview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, which won't be released for about a month, is available via the latest Scientific Linux 5 (SL5) alpha live CD/DVD, released this week
Source: Linux Today Google evangelist Chris DiBona and venture capitalist and former Oracle president/COO Ray Lane will be among the headliners at an Open Source Summit Feb. 15 in Pittsburgh
Source: Linux Today In this article, learn how to accurately measure the amount of memory your Linux system uses. You also get practical advice on reducing your memory requirements using an Ubuntu system as an example
Source: Linux Today Each one had a unique vision for what computing should be. Each implanted that vision into a corporate culture. But all those cultures had enormous trouble after the founder passed the baton
Source: Linux Today Linux.org managing editor Michael J. Jordan takes a look at the the most popular Linux distributions and gives his opinion as to where he thinks they're going as of January 2007
Source: Linux Today It's hard not to think of Linux when looking at the early days of baseball. A look back at the initial business of the sport may give us insights into the future of open source software.
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