How to sneak Linux into your office
Now that Dell and Lenovo are running the distribution on some of its machines, and Novell is promoting a desktop version of Suse, the stage is set for a serious change in expectations. It was one…
Open Source's Next Steps
Last month, Fortune magazine ran an interesting article about how Microsoft got its groove on in the massive Chinese market by striking deals with China's government and how Microsoft's success in…
Novell CEO: Apps Are Job No. 1 for Linux
Applications is just one of several areas where Linux needs to progress, said Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian at the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco. Virtualization and data center management are…
MythTV Listings To Cost $15 for 3 Months
"Schedules Direct, the folks that have been working towards providing listing data for MythTV users in the shadow of the impending shutdown of existing listing services by Zap2It, has finally…
MySQL stops providing Enterprise source for free
"For the past few months I have been providing “Red Hat”-style RPMs of the newest MySQL versions, including the Enterprise-only releases. Unfortunately it looks like that practice is going to come…
Jonathan Schwartz on Sun's open-source business strategy
Jonathan Schwartz is a man on a mission. While at Linuxworld today, I took an hour to visit with Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems. After spending an hour prodding Jonathan with questions…
Tribe 4 Released
Pre-releases of Gutsy are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable
system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even
frequent breakage. They are, however,…
Virtualize Windows on Linux? Microsoft Says No Way!
Microsoft's Sam Ramji slammed the door on virtualizing Microsoft's newest desktop operating systems (XP and Vista) on Linux yesterday. In a speech at LinuxWorld, the director of Microsoft's open-…
Australia believes OOXML endorsement may be in breach of the Trade Practices Act
The Open Source Industry of Australia (OSIA) has formally contacted Standards Australia, requesting that Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) format not be endorsed by the body as an ISO standard…
BitTorrent Addresses Closed Source Issues
BitTorrent gained prominence in the file-sharing community largely due to its open source nature. What began as an unknown file-sharing client quickly diversified into a vast collection of…