Linus Torvalds: I Have Never Really Talked To Microsoft!
Did Microsoft’s Men In Black ever met Linus Torvalds? But why is he so critical of GPLv3? Did he ever slam Subversion? What would happen to the kernel development if he chooses to do something…
SCALE 6x - Southern California Linux Expo 2008
Members of the Open Source community will combine forces at the sixth annual Southern California Linux Expo, the premier event for businesses, academic institutions and the Linux community. SCALE…
Xorg7.3 will be in Gutsy Gibbon
A slue of incorrect information on digg and various forums regarding Xorg and Xserver in the upcoming ubuntu release. Xserver 1.4 will not be in gutsy, but Xorg7.3, Displayconfig-GTK, and…
A First Look at Oracle 11g database on Debian GNU/Linux
"Oracle 11g database has been released just a few days ago, exclusively for Linux at this time. Here's a short review of it's installation, together with screenshots, on an unsupported Debian GNU/…
Securing Open Source Code Event
The Open Solutions Alliance (OSA), a nonprofit, vendor-neutral consortium dedicated to driving interoperability and adoption of comprehensive open solutions, today announced the second event in…
Weekly Wrap-up: Most popular Linux community stories for the week of August 18 2007
Here is the Linuxlookup.com weekly wrap-up, some of the hottest stories in the Linux community this week were...
- Compiz Fusion first development release
- A Chart of the Summary…
Ark Linux Releases 2007.1 and Announces KDE 4 Plans
"The KDE-based Linux distro has released it's version 2007.1 This distro is a multi-purpose Linux distro that is both easy for newbies and good for long time Linux pros. Now that this new version…
Is it time to exit from Windows?
The offer of pre-installed Linux by mainstream PC makers doesn't mean the open-source operating system is poised to sweep aside Microsoft’s; but while its cost advantages may never be compelling,…
GNOME 2.20.0 Beta 1 Released
This is our seventh development release on our road towards GNOME 2.20.0, which will be released in September 2007. New features are still arriving, so your mission is simple : Go download it. Go…
Interview: Bob Sutor of IBM
An interview with IBM's Vice President of Open Source and Standards about their Open Source Strategy, the recent pledge of its patents for more than 150 open software standards, his take on the…