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Source: Linux Today Community development isn't a quick fix for poorly designed software
Source: Linux Today Wired's decision to devote the first mainstream feature to him and GNU/Linux was brave in 1996. At the time, free software was barely known outside a small, if growing circle of hackers
Source: Linux Today Search giant Google is a heavy user of open-source software and an active participant in many projects that develop it--even chipping in some funding
Source: Linux Today [A]fter some discussion, Greg Kroah-Hartman has withdrawn the patch, saying 'Even if we change the kernel this way, it prevents valid and legal usages of the kernel.' The frustration which drove this discussion remains, however
Source: Linux Today SCO group is going down. Microsoft, Sun, and the greedy investors that abetted SCO in its campaign to loot Unix and Linux vendors and their customers have abandoned ship
Source: Linux Today Mozilla has released the first beta for version 2.0 of its popular email client, Thunderbird. The initial release is still a little rough around the edges, but it boasts a host of promising new features
Source: Linux Today When Massachusetts' government decided to use Open Document Format (ODF) as the default document file format throughout its agencies, a key concern was that ODF would not allow the visually impaired to use assistive computer technologies
Source: Linux Today If you could ask Bill Gates one question, what would you ask ?
Source: Linux Today Running an older version of Red Hat's Fedora Core Linux? Bad news: You're no longer being supported
Source: Linux Today In a recent Slashdot story, a disgruntled Debian developer posted that 'MySQL [has] quietly deprecated support for most Linux distributions on October 16
Source: Linux Today Ok, the two-week merge period is over, and -rc1 is out there
Source: Linux Today I barely know how to tell you this, but SCO has filed a motion for reconsideration of Judge Dale Kimball's November 29th Order in SCO v. IBM, the one affirming Magistrate Judge Brooke Wells' June 28th Order
Source: Linux Today Google's AJAX Web tool is going open source nine months after it first hit developers' plates
Source: Linux Today Several Linux kernel developers have decided that the time has come to set a definitive boundary for what kind of modules should be allowed within the Linux kernel. By January 2008, they maintain, all non-GPL kernel modules will not be allowed
Source: Linux Today Today was the day I received notice that Richard Stallman had a personal talk with Rafael Correa, our newly elected soon-to-be president
Source: Linux Today Today we'll look at some of the Linux applications for implementing virtualization: Xen, User-Mode Linux, VMWare, chroot jails, and OpenVZ
Source: Linux Today Hyperic plans to make available Monday a version of its open source software that can analyze and manage virtual stacks powered by VMware
Source: Linux Today If you're new to Linux programming, then you might be interested in considering these aspects before you start your wonderful journey
Source: Linux Today VMware, Red Hat and other vendors would have you think the future of operating system distribution lies within a virtual appliance, but reality isn't as cut and dried as they'd have you believe
Source: Linux Today Configuration-centered security is sometimes called security architecture or proactive security. Under any name, the approach means making the design and installation of a computer system part of your security
Source: Linux Today The role of the operating system is changing, says Billy Marshall, the CEO of Raleigh, N.C.-based rPath, whose rBuilder product is used by software vendors to create and maintain software appliances
Source: Linux Today A few weeks ago, I decided to start looking for a new system. After a fair amount of searching, I settled on a Shuttle XPC SN27P2 barebones system that includes the case, motherboard, and power supply
Source: Linux Today Open source router company Vyatta debuted earlier this year with a Red Hat-style alternative to Cisco and Juniper offerings
Source: Linux Today Community radio stations in Sierra Leone and in other emerging democracies may well soon be powered by Campcaster 1.1
Source: Linux Today Signals are software interrupts that send information about an occurrence of an asynchronous event to an executing program, or process
Source: Linux Today Today's security advisories: ruby1.6, ruby1.8, and enemies-of-carlotta (Debian GNU/Linux); GnuPG, KOffice, Mozilla Firefox, AMD64 x86 emulation base libraries, F-PROT Antivirus, libgsf, and Trac (Gentoo Linux); kdegraphics and gnupg (Mandriva Linux); evince and squirrelmail (rPath Linux); and gpg and gpg2 (SUSE Linux).
Source: Linux Today Earlier in the year we had seen several exciting ATI driver releases, while the last couple of months have been relatively dismal
Source: Linux Today For businesses that want to conduct outbound dialing operations on the cheap, several open-source software packages are available for evaluation
Source: Linux Today Gervase Markham, the Mozilla Foundation's licensing officer, in an article in the Times Online, talks about being questioned by a northern UK Trading License Officer about giving away software
Source: Linux Today While Reiser4 has yet to really make inroads into too many distributions, ReiserFS (also known as ReiserFS 3.x) is commonly found in almost every major distribution currently available to the masses "
Source: Linux Today Never mind, as Matthew Aslett notes, that one-third of the respondents had never even heard of the deal
Source: Linux Today Humor: "Yeah, not your typical brunch place for a chapter of an organization for over-50 women who wear unflattering headgear and parade around like a gaggle of Blanche Duboises on Muscatel "
Source: Linux Today I recently decided to retire Red Hat 7 after seven years of loyal service as a firewall/router-OS on my home LAN
Source: Linux Today In theory, free and open source software (FOSS) should have a direct appeal to those concerned with ethics and social issues
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