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Linux : Articles : Microsoft displays fear, uncertainty, and doubt toward OpenOffice.org
Posted: ( Mon 12th Apr 2004 06:11:13[PM] UTC )
I came across Microsoft OpenOffice 1.1 Competitive Guide through a post on the TTLUG mailing list, and decided to answer it fully in a FDLed response because it will save quite a few people from typing everything.

Linux : Articles : Desktop Guerrilla Tactics: a Portable Thin Client Approach
Posted: ( Mon 12th Apr 2004 06:11:13[PM] UTC )
Roll out a desktop Linux pilot project quickly without disturbing the legacy desktop OS.

Linux : News : Fedora Core 2 Shows 2.6 Kernel's Stuff
Posted: ( Mon 12th Apr 2004 06:10:37[PM] UTC )
When Red Hat inc. turned its general-purpose Linux distribution from a retail product to the community-supported Fedora project, the company set out to define the project by the aggressiveness of its development course.

Linux : News : Torvalds: Open Source Keeps People Honest
Posted: ( Mon 12th Apr 2004 06:10:37[PM] UTC )
The "father" of Linux talks with InformationWeek about data-center Linux, trust, and SCO Group's lawsuits.

Linux : News : SuSE YAST going open source
Posted: ( Sun 21st Mar 2004 08:26:43[AM] UTC )
For years, SuSE has considered its YAST (Yet Another Setup Tool) technology--software for installing, configuring and managing Linux--an advantage over its competitors and forbade them from incorporating it into the products they sold. But with the new plan, to be announced Monday at Novell's Brainshare conference, the company will release YAST under the General Public License (GPL), sources familiar with the plan said.

Linux : News : SCO can't slow open source
Posted: ( Sun 21st Mar 2004 08:23:54[AM] UTC )
Despite the furor surrounding the SCO Group's lawsuits over Linux, companies have not been deterred from adopting open-source technology.

Linux : News : Hyundai Motor Adopts Linux
Posted: ( Sun 21st Mar 2004 08:23:54[AM] UTC )
Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea's largest automaker, and its affiliate Kia Motors Corp. have adopted a Linux cluster system built by International Business Machines Corp., the world's largest computer maker, for vehicle crash simulation testing and analysis, IBM Korea said on Wednesday.

Linux : News : Linux gets Intel help with Centrino
Posted: ( Sun 21st Mar 2004 08:21:37[AM] UTC )
A year after it launched its Centrino chip package for building notebooks with wireless networking abilities, Intel has begun a public project to let Linux take advantage of the hardware.

Linux : News : Linux leads point-of-sale OS growth, but faces obstacles
Posted: ( Sun 21st Mar 2004 08:21:37[AM] UTC )
Linux was the fastest growing operating system in the point-of-sale (POS) terminal market in 2003, according to a study by IHL Consulting Group. However, Linux's market share is still quite small, and adoption has slowed since Microsoft released Windows XP Embedded (XPe) IHL says.

Linux : News : SCO's Suit: A Match Made in Redmond?
Posted: ( Sun 21st Mar 2004 08:18:33[AM] UTC )
Just as the legal battle over Linux was about to become even more expensive, Microsoft suggested that a hedge fund invest in the outfit.

Linux : News : Macromedia to test Linux support
Posted: ( Sun 21st Mar 2004 08:17:21[AM] UTC )
Macromedia will begin experimenting with Linux support, releasing versions of its development tools that work with the open-source operating system, a company executive said on Thursday.

NetBSD : Interviews : Interview with NetBSD's Luke Mewburn
Posted: ( Sat 6th Mar 2004 02:30:36[AM] UTC )
The NetBSD Project announced Monday that release 1.6.2 of the NetBSD operating system is now available, with binary distributions for 40 architectures. Newsforge interviewed Luke Mewburn of the NetBSD Core Group and asked him about the NetBSD project in general, the long awaiting release 2.0, and a lot of technical and organizational issues.

FreeOS : Howtos : Writing portable shell scripts
Posted: ( Sat 6th Mar 2004 02:30:30[AM] UTC )
Shell scripts are a popular choice for writing small programs that do file manipulation. They are generally portable across platforms, but there are a number of things that can make a shell script work fine on one machine and fail on another. This article reviews some of the issues shell programmers may run into when trying to write widely portable scripts.

FreeOS : News : Sun "Open" to Letting Java Go, with Strings
Posted: ( Sat 6th Mar 2004 02:29:33[AM] UTC )
Sun Microsystems Inc is open to relinquishing stewardship of Java to a neutral third party, but is apparently against releasing the language to open source under GPL.

Linux : News : SCO Licensee Takes Heat from Users
Posted: ( Sat 6th Mar 2004 02:29:33[AM] UTC )
EV1Servers.Net this week told its users that it had their interests in mind when it signed an intellectual-property license with The SCO Group Inc. to use Red Hat Linux. However, that hasn't stopped some of those users from threatening to leave the Web-hosting company over the deal.