The United States market for Linux support got more crowded Tuesday after French Linux vendor Mandrakesoft announced a partner program and a new line of Linux servers for the SMB (small to medium business) market in the U.S.
About three months ago, I was hired by an 80-person manufacturing company as director of IT, primarily because of my experience with Linux. Job number one, they said, was to ditch as much Microsoft software as possible. They had just acquired a company that used Linux; it was time for the home office to switch over too.
Publication of an open source procurement guide for government agencies is not expected until March this year, four months after the early December timeframe flagged by officials last year.
Red Hat is believed to be planning a major upgrade to its Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system that will fully support the latest Linux 2.6 kernel for the first time.
What was the biggest theme to emerge during the 2004 "Year in Linux"? In large measure, it all had to do with the expanded movement of Linux into new environments, ranging from the data center to embedded spaces.
There's little chance of an open source company shaking up the Business Intelligence (BI) market any time soon, according to Bernard Liautaud, the chief executive of Business Objects.
A good deal of the evolution of IT depends upon platforms. The simple economic facts are that software builders choose not to pay the cost of porting to more than one or two platforms.
More than 60 per cent of European software developers believe that using open source software can have significant benefits, newly published research has shown.
The FreeBSD status report is back again after another small break. The second half of 2004 was incredibly busy; FreeBSD 5.3 was released, the 6-CURRENT development branch started, and EuroBSDCon 2004 was a huge success, just to name a few events. This report is packed with an impressive 44 submissions, the most of any report ever!
If you followed along last time, you now have a complete working Linux virtual machine running on the same physical machine as your company-issued workstation. You still should be able to get all of your work done using the Windows tools your company purchased for the workstation, but let's see about moving some of that work over to Linux. Let's set up networking for the Linux VM.
It's hard to believe that we have passed the 13th anniversary of Linus Torvald's humble introduction of "just a hobby" Linux, first posted to the Web in October 1991. Torvald previewed the OS as a "Minix-lookalike" and designed for the days when "men were men and wrote their own device drivers."
This primer covers the use of FOSS from schools to universities. It provides a brief overview of how it can help in setting up the IT infrastructure and administration of educational institutions and considers software (mainly proprietary) which is now used as the basis for IT curricula and alternative FOSS which is available.
In the latest episode of LugRadio, the fortnightly Linux radio show, the team interview Mark Shuttleworth, head of the Ubuntu project. Mark talks about where Ubuntu is going, how (and whether) Canonical plan to make any money on the Ubuntu project, his role in the project, and (most importantly) why marketing isn't a good thing and what they're doing instead.
The fun begins when we look past the media reports to IBM's own press release and published statements. IBM promised not to sue any open-source developer, distributor or user, and stated clearly that IBM is legally bound by that promise. However, the statement contains disclaimers that limit IBM's promise.
The CE Linux Forum (CELF) announces that it was officially established as a California non-profit corporation on January 1 of this year. CELF's headquarters will be located in San Jose, Calif., and Scott Smyers, who had been the chair of the organization's steering committee, will serve as the chair of the CELF Board of Directors.
Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), which promotes the adoption of the Linux operating system, has denied that it plans to rewrite the Linux kernel to combat claims that it infringes some software patents.
Newcomer DeadCD is a minimalistic Linux livecd, based on the Debian distribution. It's goal is to provide small - the maximum size is 100 MB -, fast and feature-rich versatile system.
Tacoma, Washington (January 18, 2005) – OSoft.com, a leading
provider of open source documentation solutions, announced today that it has
released the Apache 2.0 documentation in the ThoutReaderâ„¢ format.
The ThoutReaderâ„¢ is an open source documentation platform that allows
software developers to browse, search, bookmark, and append all their open source
documentation as well as favorite reference books in one standard format, at
the same time - even off-line.
Linux systems are getting tougher for hackers to crack, security experts have reported today," summarizing "A study conducted by the Honeynet Project has found that it takes about 3 months before a unpatched Linux machine will be owned, compared with about 72 hours in the past.
What happens when you turn a perfectly good Apple PowerBook into a tri-boot system with Mac OS X, Yellow Dog Linux, and Ubuntu Linux? Read on to find out.
ATI released its much anticipated drivers for the X.Org 6.8 Window System today. ATI actually went one step further and updated its driver set for XFree86 as well. Those who had to hack and slash their way through the Fedora Core 3 install only to realize that VESA was the only way to get it working in init 5 will find this highly useful.
Open source certainly now is "good enough" for the needs of most end users who merely use their computers for simple office productivity work, Webbing, and e-mailing.
Miranda IM Miranda IM is an open source multi-protocol (Jabber, ICQ, AIM, etc) instant messaging client for Windows. The client is extremely flexible and lightweight, with a footprint so small that it can run from a USB memory stick.
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