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Face it: Linux is insecure —
Jun. 05, 2006 —
Linux is insecure. Open source is insecure. Windows is insecure. All software is insecure. Deal with it. People keep having this delusion that security is a product. That, if you just buy some magic box, you'll have a program or an operating system that's as secure as Fort Knox. It ...
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Lenovo says no to Linux —
Jun. 05, 2006 —
Opinion -- If you recently bought one of the most respected lines of laptops in the world -- the ThinkPad -- and a well-thought line of PCs, but were still losing money hand over fist, would you choose to alienate some of your customers? Well, I wouldn't. ...
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Red Hat goes all out for developers —
May 31, 2006 —
Nashville Tenn. -- If you were looking for new products at Red Hat Inc.'s second annual Red Hat Summit, you came to the wrong place. But, if you were interested in bigger and better development tools, you came to the right place. ...
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U.S. PTO smashes JPEG patent —
May 26, 2006 —
Another attempt to tie down a standard with a patent has gone down in flames. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected a patent that Forgent Networks was asserting against the Joint Photographic Experts Group, better known ...
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Novell sells Celerant, focuses on Linux —
May 24, 2006 —
Novell announced on May 24th that it has sold its shares in Celerant Consulting, its management consulting branch, to Caledonia Investments, a UK-quoted investment trust, for $77 million. Celerant ...
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A Sun-ny open-source and Linux face —
May 19, 2006 —
It was an interesting week out in San Francisco at Sun and friends' JavaOne conference. After flirting with the idea of open-sourcing Java for ages, Sun has finally agreed that it will open-source Java... someday, real-soon-now. I'm not going to be holding my breath. In the meantime, though, Sun ...
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Can Ubuntu jump from community to commercial? —
May 19, 2006 —
Opinion: Anyone who follows Linux closely knows that Ubuntu is the most popular community distribution. But, is that enough for Ubuntu to make a go of it as a commercial business distribution? It looks like we're going to get to find out. ...
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Can Ubuntu jump from community to commercial? —
May 19, 2006 —
Anyone who follows Linux closely knows that Ubuntu is the most popular community distribution. But, is that enough for Ubuntu to make a go of it as a commercial business distribution? It looks like we're going to get to find out. Canonical Ltd., Mark Shuttleworth's UK-based company, has ...
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Microsoft's draft Open XML straitjacket arrives —
May 19, 2006 —
Opinion: The Intermediate Draft 1.3 of Microsoft's Open XML office document standard has been released by Ecma International, a European standards organization. At 4,000 plus pages, a 6.7MB Microsoft Word document, the Open XML draft standard is less of a standard and more of a painfully detailed description of how ...
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Microsoft's draft Open XML straitjacket arrives —
May 19, 2006 —
The Intermediate Draft 1.3 of Microsoft's Open XML office document standard has been released by Ecma International, a European standards organization. At 4,000 plus pages, a 6.7MB Microsoft Word document, ...
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Novell pioneers faster way to deliver Linux drivers —
May 17, 2006 —
Novell Inc. has come up with a faster way to deliver Linux hardware drivers, and driver updates, to Linux users. With the new driver process, users can get drivers independently of kernel updates, and vendors can more easily develop and deliver device drivers for Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise products. In ...
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It takes marketing bucks to make open-source bucks —
May 16, 2006 —
Marketing is a bad word in most technology circles, but it's a swear word in open-source forums. Too bad, that marketing and sales are absolutely necessary for any open-source company to make the jump from peanuts to steak. That's the point Matt Asay makes in his recent InfoWorld blog post, ...
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Bad VNC bug gets fixed —
May 15, 2006 —
I don't use VNC (Virtual Network Computing) very often to remotely control computers, but there are times that I have used it. In particular, on my list of things to get is KVM-over-IP, a hardware product from RealVNC, VNC's creator. I use KVM (keyboard, video, ...
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The pragmatic desktop Linux user —
May 15, 2006 —
Opinion: Sometimes, you can't get what you want. That's the point Robin "Roblimo" Miller makes in his pained confession at NewsForge, that when it comes to the video production that makes up 10 percent of his work time, it's best done using Camtasia, a proprietary Windows-only program. Argh! ...
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Linux, open-source, and control —
May 12, 2006 —
Over at Slashdot, they're debating a statement by Greg Mancusi-Ungaro, Novell's Linux and open-source software marketing manager, in a recent LinuxFormat interview, that "Well, if we ever woke up one day and said 'Wow, Novell is the Microsoft of Linux' or 'Red Hat is the Microsoft ...
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Itanium needs Linux... but does Linux need Itanium? —
May 08, 2006 —
For years now, I've been hearing about how Intel's Itanium platform was going to be the server-chip to end all other server-chips. It hasn't happened. I don't think it ever will happen. Recently, some of Intel's 64-bit Itanium chip allies have been looking to Linux, as a way ...
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