Linux ready to play with rivals
Kevin Kettler told an audience at LinuxWorld that virtualisation and Linux was no longer such an odd combination.
"The two play to one another very strongly, particularly in the re-emerging…
"A few more" versions of Linux Kernel 2.6.20 planned
Willy Tarreau, maintainer of the 2.4 kernel series, wants to continue to oversee the Linux version 2.6.20 a bit longer than the maintainers of the stable kernel series would normally have done.…
Linux Boom Ahead?
The SCO Group frightened potential business users away from Linux with lawsuits demanding billions in royalties. But the litigious company's claims were shot down in a ruling that will likely…
VMware Prices Initial Public Offering
VMware kicked off an IPO of 33,000,000 shares for its Class A Common Stock priced at $29 per share. Shares began trading NYSE today under the ticker symbol "VMW".
Citi, JPMorgan and Lehman…
Carmack commits to Open Source as Quakeworld
At Quakeworld, John Carmack (the genius behind Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein) commits to open sourcing idsoftware's future games: "I mean I won't commit to a date, but the Doom 3 stuff will be open…
The open-source community's double standard on MySQL
Deja vu. Remember 2002? That's when Red Hat decided to split its code into Red Hat Advanced Server (now Red Hat Enterprise Linux) and Fedora. Howls of protest and endless hand-wringing ensued: How…
SCO stock down 71.3% mid day trading today
Last Friday the court concluded that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare Copyright, today SCO stock went from $1.56 down to $0.44!
http://finance.google.com/finance?client=ig&q…
Wine 0.9.43 Released
What's new in this Wine 0.9.43 release: Direct3D support on top of WGL instead of GLX for better portability. Many DirectSound fixes. Still more gdiplus functions. crypt32 improvements and lots of…
Statement from SCO Regarding Recent Court Ruling
"The company is obviously disappointed with the ruling issued last Friday. However, the court clearly determined that SCO owns the copyrights to the technology developed or derived by SCO after…
A Chart of the Summary Judgment Rulings in SCO v Novell
"The court's rulings on the numerous summary judgment motions in SCO v. Novell are in a document that is long and complex, and I'm still reading and analyzing it myself. We've grasped the big…