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Is Linux getting buggier? —
May 08, 2006 —
Is the Linux kernel getting buggier? According to Andrew Morton, the lead maintainer of the Linux 2.6 kernel, in a CNET report from the LinuxTag conference in Germany, there's getting to be too much bad code in the kernel. "I believe the 2.6 kernel is slowly getting buggier. ...
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O'Reilly's releases book betas online —
May 05, 2006 —
We already have beta software so why not beta books? That's the question that O'Reilly Media Inc. is asking with its latest online service -- Rough Cuts. With Rough Cuts, readers buy an early look at books-in-progress before they're published. Available through O'Reilly's Safari Books Online ...
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Sun may ease Java licensing for Linux distros —
May 05, 2006 —
Sun Microsystems hinted in a conference call May 4 that it will loosen distribution restrictions within its Java licensing, to encourage developers to use Java on Linux systems. The company said it is considering changes to the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) license, to make it easier to distribute with Linux. ...
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Easy WiFi for Linux will come... someday —
May 04, 2006 —
Don't you wish you could just put Linux on a laptop and the WiFi connection would just work? I know I do. I'm pretty darn good at getting WiFi to run with Linux. I know Madwifi, the drivers for the Atheros chipsets, well. And, I also have grown ...
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Coming soon: ODF for MS Office —
May 04, 2006 —
Just because Microsoft refuses to support ODF (Open Document Format) never meant that someone wouldn't write a plug-in to enable Microsoft Office users to read and write ODF documents. Well, it's happened. In an interview with Groklaw's Pamela Jones, the
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Open-Source Java: Again?! —
May 02, 2006 —
Here we go again. This time it's sources within Sun hinting that they might finally be ready to open-source Java. Excuse me if I yawn. I've been down this road before and I've gotten tired of seeing the same old ruts. My buddy Daryl Taft has always covered ...
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Making sense out of SUSE's delta releases —
May 01, 2006 —
With a cold on one side and a complete Internet connection meltdown on the other, I've been having a heck of a time keeping up with my email. Still, before my ISP, Bell South, hosed my DSL connection and my cold ...
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Gentoo -- it's not for everyone —
May 01, 2006 —
First things first. Gentoo is not for everyone. While Gentoo makes working with source code for everything from the kernel to the most minor utility program as easy as possible, this is no distribution for someone whose idea of installing a Linux application starts and ends with SUSE's ...
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U.S. advised to promote open standards, source, innovation —
Apr. 18, 2006 —
A business- and university-led public policy group has issued a downloadable 72-page report examining open standards, open source software, and "open innovation." The report concludes that openness should be promoted ...
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Should Oracle get into the Linux business? —
Apr. 17, 2006 —
If Oracle were to get into the operating system business with Linux, would this be a good thing for the database giant? Industry watchers are all over the map with their thoughts on the matter. On the plus side, Dan Kusnetzky, executive vice president ...
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Oracle Linux? —
Apr. 17, 2006 —
Larry Ellison, CEO and God-king of Oracle, may not be willing to pay a few billion for Red Hat, but he has thought about buying Novell, and he hasn't closed the door on buying a major Linux distributor. Now, when most people talk like this, I really don't ...
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Managing Linux users the Active Directory way —
Apr. 13, 2006 —
So you want to manage Linux users, but your system administrators are lost without Microsoft's Active Directory? Centrify Corp. has an answer: Centrify DirectControl Suite 3. With this program, you can use Active Directory (AD) to integrate Unix, Linux, Mac, J2EE, and LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python) based web ...
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Red Hat keeps its grip on Fedora —
Apr. 12, 2006 —
Red Hat Inc. announced on April 4th that the Fedora Project is going to stay under Red Hat's control, instead of going to the Fedora Foundation as it had previously announced. Red Hat's Community Development Manager Greg DeKoenigsberg explained that the Fedora Foundation was not going ...
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Smoke, mirrors, SCO —
Apr. 11, 2006 —
OK, so we all knew that the chances of SCO winning its case against IBM, concerning Unix code being placed in Linux, were somewhere between zero ...
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Of Macs and Linux —
Apr. 11, 2006 —
Thanks to expert Linux user Jem Matzen, we can now turn a GNOME interface into a Mac OS X Aqua desktop clone. This is one of those really neat things that at the same time kind of bothers me. I mean, it really is great that you can ...
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