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Linux : News : MontaVista beats real-time Linux deadline
Posted: ( Tue 13th Sep 2005 04:47:17[PM] UTC )
MontaVista Software, a company that sells Linux for embedded computing devices such as telecommunications gear, plans to announce Tuesday that it's hit a speed goal earlier than expected.

Linux : News : Rating system to evaluate open-source software
Posted: ( Tue 13th Sep 2005 04:47:17[PM] UTC )
No-cost software, despite the price, can be confusing and costly for corporations to use.

Linux : News : Novell seeks outside help with Linux
Posted: ( Fri 19th Aug 2005 04:39:32[PM] UTC )
Novell plans to begin opening up development of one of its Linux products to outside programmers in a project called OpenSuse, a strategy similar to that taken by rival Red Hat, Novell is expected to announce next week.

Linux : Opinions : Why MS Office for Linux is a win-win
Posted: ( Fri 19th Aug 2005 04:37:08[PM] UTC )
Dana Blankenhorn asks an important question which Microsoft ought to be asking itself: Would you buy MS Office for Linux? Let's go back a few years, to the antitrust suit brought about by the DoJ under the Clinton administration…

Linux : Articles : How Toyota and Linux Keep Collaboration Simple
Posted: ( Fri 19th Aug 2005 04:37:04[PM] UTC )
The Linux and Toyota communities are both composed of engineers, so members have the same skills as their colleagues and speak the same language. But these groups are far more disciplined and rigorous in their approach to work than are other engineering communities.

Linux : News : Unhappiness drives open source adoption
Posted: ( Fri 19th Aug 2005 04:32:18[PM] UTC )
Google Inc open source programs manager Chris DiBona said the search giant has stuck with Linux throughout the company's life, in part, because it was unhappy with the terms of another software company.

Linux : News : Key bugs in core Linux code squashed
Posted: ( Fri 19th Aug 2005 04:29:32[PM] UTC )
Serious security bugs in key parts of the latest Linux code have been fixed, but some small glitches have been introduced, according to a recent scan.

Linux : News : USB server offers Linux to go
Posted: ( Fri 19th Aug 2005 04:29:32[PM] UTC )
A small Utah-based company has developed a portable Linux server that can be plugged into the Universal Serial Bus (USB) port of a Windows PCs.

Linux : News : Sun sets up open-source office
Posted: ( Fri 19th Aug 2005 04:03:51[PM] UTC )
Sun Microsystems on Wednesday night launched an office dedicated to open-source matters, signaling a new elevation of the collaborative programming philosophy within the server and software company.

FreeBSD : News : FreeBSD 6.0 to target wireless devices
Posted: ( Fri 19th Aug 2005 04:03:51[PM] UTC )
FreeBSD is hoping to move beyond the server and desktop market by tackling wireless devices.

Linux : Opinions : Mcrosoft to buy Red Hat? Say it ain’'t so
Posted: ( Wed 25th May 2005 03:27:05[PM] UTC )
As David Berlind recently pointed out in his piece Is Microsoft considering acquisition of Red Hat? Microsoft could see Red Hat’s acquisition as a nice way to undermine IBM, but might not consider that a sufficient reason to do it. That, of course, is Microsoft’s perspective, but what about Red Hat’s? This is a company, remember, that wants to be Microsoft and, like Microsoft, makes its living packaging and selling other people’s ideas.

Linux : News : Head to Head: Linux vs. Windows on 64-Bit Chips
Posted: ( Wed 25th May 2005 03:26:10[PM] UTC )
For the first time in history, there are more Linux software choices than Windows choices -- in the 64-bit arena -- but it is likely that the situation will not remain that way for long. Let the debate begin anew, in other words.

Linux : News : $100 Linux laptop to help world's poor
Posted: ( Wed 25th May 2005 03:26:10[PM] UTC )
A global education system in which Linux notebook computers are as common as pencils or textbooks even in the poorest nations has been outlined today by a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Linux : Howtos : How to block Gnutella with a Linux/Iptables firewall
Posted: ( Wed 25th May 2005 03:18:59[PM] UTC )
Many P2P (peer to peer) protocols are rather complex to control using packet filtering firewalls such as Linux's IpTables. This is because they often dont use fixed port numbers, sometimes use multiple connection protocols or even encryption.

The P2PWall project is developing software add-ins for Iptables to overcome these issues. The "Rope" module from the P2PWall project provides a scriptable kernel module for packet identification.

This article describes how to use Linux, Iptables and ROPE to identify (and block) the Gnutella protocol.

Linux : Articles : Learning to use mod_rewrite tutorial
Posted: ( Wed 25th May 2005 03:17:34[PM] UTC )
Mod_rewrite is apaches most powerful and mystifying module. The basics are introduced and some practical uses include improving URLS for search engines and preventing people from hotlinking to your images are covered.