"What happens when a pair of companies with competing interests decide to meet on a common platform and work to better it while angling for slices of each others' markets. I've got an optimist and a cynic, one for each shoulder."

The chipmaker is preparing to post Mobile Linux, its take on the Linux OS, under the GNU General Public License process in the near future, company representatives said this week. Although the exact release date isn't set, the release could come next week or the week after.

Starters for Linux - Part 3

Hi friends! Welcome to the third and final segment of our journey through Linux CLI. We’ll wrap up this series by looking at a number of commands that deal with Basic System Administration and Networking.

Basic System Administration Commands

printtool

(as root in X-terminal) Configuration tool for your printer(s).

To access the settings directly go to the file /etc/printcap.

setup

"Linux is a global phenomenon. The global revolution is going to happen, regardless of the legislation passed in America. You want to import more programmers from around the globe, but at the same time you don't think that their ideas will make it in too? You want to import talent from around the globe, but you think you will keep out something like Linux?"

"In three years, I've never had to do anything as rash as a complete system backup, wipe, and reinstall -- a yearly or semi-yearly necessity in my Windows days."

You may have read about LUG members being approached by recruiters representing Microsoft. This is a copy of the letter that was sent to mRgOBLIN who lives in New Zealand and is currently working on the SAStk project.

Microsoft Windows operating-system chief Jim Allchin says that freely distributed software code such as Linux could stifle innovation and result in the demise of both intellectual property rights and the incentive to spend on research and development.

"Those who hope to see Linux as a corporate mainstay, as opposed to an interesting experiment, are eagerly awaiting the first deal between Red Hat, or even another Linux distributor, and someone of the order of Compaq, Dell, Hewlett Packard or IBM to sell the operating system into their major accounts."

"I think these layoffs indicate the strength of the Internet as a way of distributing software. SuSE doesn't need a large employee base in the USA to have a presence there. SuSE Linux will still be available in the USA exactly the same as it was before."

"I'd say that in 5 years, it doesn't sound like we'll be running fvwm on our Linux desktops, ladies and gentlemen. I think it's going to be an Eazel world, once Nautilus hits version 1.0 - and that's not far away. We're into third beta country, now."