Microsoft Getting Paid for Patents in Linux?

An Interview with Jeremy Allison where the interviewer asks 'One of the persistent rumors that's going around is that certain large IT customers have already been paying Microsoft for patent…

Virtual Windows to Run Unmodified on Linux

Novell and Intel Corporation today announced the availability of paravirtualized network and block device drivers that will allow Microsoft Windows Server 2000/2003/XP to run unmodified in Xen…

Photoshop CS2 on Linux (Ubuntu)

Having tried to install it before, I knew the typical route wouldn ’t work. Instead I headed over to portableapps.com, and dug up some info on making CS2 portable, and followed the steps here (on…

Weekly Wrap-up Feb 10 2007

Here is the Linuxlookup.com weekly wrap-up, some of the hottest stories in the Linux community this week were...

- Ubuntu Canada vs. Microsoft's Ice House

- AsteriskNow Rocks Open…

Linuxlookup news lull: Low cost advertising and LUG reminder

As the week comes to an end fresh Linux community news is rather scarce. So rather than posting the same ol' story over and over like other sites, we'd like to take this opportunity for some…

Sun woos FSF with GPLv3 carrot while Linux gets the stick

Reaction to the Free Software Foundation's upcoming revision of the GNU Public License (GPLv3) has been mixed so far, with many participants taking a wait-and-see attitude while others (such as…

Marc Fleury Will Be Back

In a move that many in the industry had expected, Marc Fleury, founder of JBoss and often controversial open-source software has left Red Hat.

In a statement, Fleury said, "I have done what…

Microsoft ‘officelabs’ looks to open source for inspiration

One of the criticisms most often levied against Microsoft — and not just by anonymous posters on Mini Microsoft — is that the company has gotten too big and too slow to be effective. Can Microsoft…

Interview with Kristian Høgsberg creator of AIGLX

Learn from AIGLX creator Kristian Høgsberg what he thinks is important in the world of desktop 3D and... FireWire!

Interview with Kristian Høgsberg creator of AIGLX.

Andrew Morton reveals his plans for Linux 2.6.21

Following the release of Linux Version 2.6.20 a few days ago the development phase of the next kernel version has now taken off. Whereas Linus Torvalds during the last few days has already…