Weekly Wrap-up

Since Linuxlookup news isn't updated over the weekends, here is our weekly wrap-up to hold you over till Monday.

Some top stories this week were:

- Large public-sector Linux project…

The implications of Sun open sourcing Java

The long-awaited open sourcing of Java is finally upon us, with Sun announcing the first of a set of releases planned through into 2007. The question of which license Sun would adopt is now…

Making manpages work for you

One of the most important skills to have for navigating the command line in Linux is the ability to use manpages. The term "manpage", also sometimes spelled "man page", is short for "manual page…

Gates on Vista, Linux and more

But, in general, Linux is not nearly as high-volume as Windows is on servers. But (it's) significant, so customers want new kinds of interoperability.

http://news.com.com/Gates+on+Vista%2C+…

Criticism mounts over Birmingham's Linux project

Criticism is mounting over the termination of a large-scale Linux project in Birmingham.

As reported earlier this week, Birmingham City Council pulled the plug on its £535,000 open-source…

Linux video server for the minivan

The video player died in our minivan a few weeks ago, sending my kids into a death spiral of Wiggles withdrawal. In retrospect, it would probably have been better never to have the video player,…

Ballmer: Linux users owe Microsoft

In comments confirming the open-source community's suspicions, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer today declared his belief that the Linux operating system infringes on Microsoft's intellectual…

Novell starts pulling down Anti-Microsoft messages from their site

Do you remember the infamous "Get the facts" campaign. Microsoft put up adverts all over the place for people to "Get the facts". They still have their Get the facts website available and its…

FSF welcomes Sun's GPL release of Java

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) welcomed the public commitment from Sun Microsystems to distribute its proprietary Java platform under the GNU General Public License (GPL) — the world's most…

300,000 installs of Fedora Core 6

Today is the 24th day -- about 3.5 weeks -- since FC6 was released. Since release, we've been tracking the number of unique IP addresses that check in via yum for updates.

This metric is…