Kernel Space: on the future of Linux IDE drivers

Back in 2003, Jeff Garzik announced the availability of "a new SCSI driver." That driver was, in fact, the libata subsystem, which was to be the foundation for serial ATA support in Linux. In the…

Novell to launch quick-response Linux

Novell plans an October launch for its Suse Linux Enterprise Real-Time product, an operating system geared for Wall Street traders and others who watch every microsecond of the clock.

Real-…

City of Munich releases version 1.0 of their debian-based client

After almost two years of development and quality assurance, we finally did freeze version 1.0 of our custom debian-based distribution yesterday. The system will be internally deployed to the…

Debian Steering Committee?

David Nusinov pondered about setting up a distribution steering committee. Ingo Jürgensmann considered this a good idea in general. David added that the bottom-up structure instead of top-down is…

Torvalds talks like a pirate

Linux creator Linus Torvalds today signalled his enjoyment of the annual "Talk Like a Pirate Day" festivities, using the nautical lexicon to launch an update to the kernel at the heart of his open…

Tonight on The Linux Link Tech Show Episode 158

Tonight on The Linux Link Tech Show, episode 158:

-Greg Boehnlein and Joe Brockmeier give us a preview of the upcoming Ohio LinuxFest
-Allan talks about encoding video for his Nokia…

Banshee 0.11.0 Released

Banshee, the music management and playback application for GNOME has just hit a new release. Rip CDs, play and sync your iPod, create playlists, and burn audio and MP3 CDs. See the release notes…

Debian Linux project group to pay developers

A group of senior developers from the Debian GNU/Linux project have decided to raise funds to pay volunteers who work on the project in order that releases can be made more frequently.

The…

aKademy 2006 Schedule Finalized

More than 200 members of the KDE community, related projects, industry partners, and interested users will be gathering Friday for aKademy 2006 at the Trinity College Dublin to work on the next-…

NEC to Invest in Linux Patent Management Company

NEC will join IBM, Novell, Philips, Red Hat and Sony as an investor and licensee in Open Invention Network (OIN), an intellectual property company formed to further the Linux environment by…