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Linux : News : Linux calling: Are cell phones ready?
Posted: ( Sun 27th Nov 2005 01:35:29[AM] UTC )
The Open Source Development Labs, an industry consortium devoted to improving Linux, plans to launch an initiative Monday to bring the open-source operating system to mobile phones.

Linux : Opinions : Linux and NTFS: peace at last?
Posted: ( Tue 13th Sep 2005 04:52:59[PM] UTC )
Reading from NTFS file systems wasn't too much trouble. Writing to a file or creating a new file, though, was something else again. And, trying to adjust the size of an NTFS partition or recover a dead file was, while not impossible, hard enough that few people wanted to try it. Now, however, Paragon Software Group has created its own NTFS driver: NTFS for Linux. And, from what my friends over at PC Magazine Labs can tell, it works pretty darn well.

Linux : News : First OpenSuSE Linux Distribution Set for October
Posted: ( Tue 13th Sep 2005 04:50:07[PM] UTC )
Novell Inc. launched its community-based OpenSuSE development in early August. This new distribution is built on the foundation of Novell's SuSE Linux Pro line.

Linux : News : GPL Revision Gets Under Way
Posted: ( Tue 13th Sep 2005 04:49:51[PM] UTC )
On Tuesday, the Free Software Foundation announced the creation of the global "GPL Version 3 Development and Publicity Project," which will help create the next version of the General Public License.

Linux : News : MontaVista beats real-time Linux deadline
Posted: ( Tue 13th Sep 2005 04:47:17[PM] UTC )
MontaVista Software, a company that sells Linux for embedded computing devices such as telecommunications gear, plans to announce Tuesday that it's hit a speed goal earlier than expected.

Linux : News : Rating system to evaluate open-source software
Posted: ( Tue 13th Sep 2005 04:47:17[PM] UTC )
No-cost software, despite the price, can be confusing and costly for corporations to use.

Linux : News : Novell seeks outside help with Linux
Posted: ( Fri 19th Aug 2005 04:39:32[PM] UTC )
Novell plans to begin opening up development of one of its Linux products to outside programmers in a project called OpenSuse, a strategy similar to that taken by rival Red Hat, Novell is expected to announce next week.

Linux : Opinions : Why MS Office for Linux is a win-win
Posted: ( Fri 19th Aug 2005 04:37:08[PM] UTC )
Dana Blankenhorn asks an important question which Microsoft ought to be asking itself: Would you buy MS Office for Linux? Let's go back a few years, to the antitrust suit brought about by the DoJ under the Clinton administration…

Linux : Articles : How Toyota and Linux Keep Collaboration Simple
Posted: ( Fri 19th Aug 2005 04:37:04[PM] UTC )
The Linux and Toyota communities are both composed of engineers, so members have the same skills as their colleagues and speak the same language. But these groups are far more disciplined and rigorous in their approach to work than are other engineering communities.

Linux : News : Unhappiness drives open source adoption
Posted: ( Fri 19th Aug 2005 04:32:18[PM] UTC )
Google Inc open source programs manager Chris DiBona said the search giant has stuck with Linux throughout the company's life, in part, because it was unhappy with the terms of another software company.

Linux : News : Key bugs in core Linux code squashed
Posted: ( Fri 19th Aug 2005 04:29:32[PM] UTC )
Serious security bugs in key parts of the latest Linux code have been fixed, but some small glitches have been introduced, according to a recent scan.

Linux : News : USB server offers Linux to go
Posted: ( Fri 19th Aug 2005 04:29:32[PM] UTC )
A small Utah-based company has developed a portable Linux server that can be plugged into the Universal Serial Bus (USB) port of a Windows PCs.

Linux : News : Sun sets up open-source office
Posted: ( Fri 19th Aug 2005 04:03:51[PM] UTC )
Sun Microsystems on Wednesday night launched an office dedicated to open-source matters, signaling a new elevation of the collaborative programming philosophy within the server and software company.

Linux : Opinions : Mcrosoft to buy Red Hat? Say it ain’'t so
Posted: ( Wed 25th May 2005 03:27:05[PM] UTC )
As David Berlind recently pointed out in his piece Is Microsoft considering acquisition of Red Hat? Microsoft could see Red Hat’s acquisition as a nice way to undermine IBM, but might not consider that a sufficient reason to do it. That, of course, is Microsoft’s perspective, but what about Red Hat’s? This is a company, remember, that wants to be Microsoft and, like Microsoft, makes its living packaging and selling other people’s ideas.

Linux : News : Head to Head: Linux vs. Windows on 64-Bit Chips
Posted: ( Wed 25th May 2005 03:26:10[PM] UTC )
For the first time in history, there are more Linux software choices than Windows choices -- in the 64-bit arena -- but it is likely that the situation will not remain that way for long. Let the debate begin anew, in other words.