According to Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation:
“Never before in the history of computing have there been so many companies, users and developers united behind one project, specifically one that has seen so much commercial success.”
Some facts:
• Who is Writing Linux?
Every Linux kernel is being developed by nearly 1,000 developers working for more than [...]
PayPal runs thousands of Linux-based, single-rack-unit servers, which host the company’s Web-presentation layer, middleware and user interface. Thompson says he quickly saw the economic, operational and development advantages of open source and Linux technology. He now sees no other way to do it.
On the back end, these thousands of systems communicate with just a few [...]
ASUS recently introduced Express Gate technology, and the first on-board Energy Processing Unit for those who care about the environment and want instant access to their PCs. As we all know by now, all the latest Asus P5Q series motherboards based on latest Intel P45 chipset, will feature Express Gate Linux version, which previously was [...]
“While we have no additional Linux expansion plans at this time, we will continue to closely monitor demand for a standard, pre-loaded Linux PC offering for both consumers and business users in all of our regions around world,” an HP spokeswoman says.
What’s the deal here? Why wait when competitors are aggresively moving into Linux desktop [...]
Who would think that Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, himself never thought much about linux being so famous and powerful and in it’s current form as it is now? Linus, in his famous message at comp.os.minix wrote in August 26 1991:
PS. Yes - it’s free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs.
It [...]
“Where I used to use Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Photoshop exclusively for my site work and graphics creation, I know use Kompozer, Bluefish, gPHPEdit, The GIMP and Inkscape. Toss in Filezilla for FTP duties and you have a very capable set of tools to create with. Totally Windows free too I might add.
I’ll admit that [...]
Open source continues moving from strength-to-strength, especially true in international markets, where skeptics once believed pirated Windows would dominate.
ApacheCon Europe grew 40% this year.
Open source trade groups are growing across Asia, driven by support from big vendors.
Open source is extending ever-further outward, to storage, training and moviemaking.
As has already been described in chapter 1, Free Software and Open Source have more or less the same aims but differ in their philosophy and values:
The fundamental difference between the two movements is in their values, their ways of looking at the world. For the Open Source movement, the issue of whether software [...]
“Free software” is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of “free” as in “free speech,” not as in “free beer.”
Free software is a matter of the users’ freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. More precisely, it refers to four kinds of [...]
This comes from an interview by Colin McGregor of Free Software Magazine with Richard M. Stallman. He goes on saying:
“We should never buy products that have DRM unless we have the means to crack it. Thus, don’t buy a DVD unless you have a free program to play it with—and never buy HD DVD [...]
Somehow I missed a big nuacence that is being proposed by Nokia (!) to W3C consortium - probably the purest anti-proprietary standards body on the planet.
“The World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C, a group devoted to publishing web standards, recently moved to approve the Ogg video and audio formats for inclusion into the forthcoming HTML5 [...]
“Really the big basic difference is that Ubuntu is a simplified cookie cutter distribution designed to not overwhelm the new user with choice. openSUSE on the other hand is the polar opposite offering choices for every aspect of Linux computing. openSUSE is very scalable and it can be as easy or advanced as one needs. [...]
“While I contemplate the fate of our desktop PC, my wife is chomping at the bit to get back online; I told her she could use my Dell Inspiron notebook. She asked if it also was a Windows XP machine. When I said it was, her reply was prompt and emphatic: “Never mind.” - Admin [...]
Just wanted to protest sites such as http://www.linewbie.com/ (not the first time) that completely (99.9% of the time) replicate my blog …… getting sick of such behaviour and bloggers. Any tips how to combat such instances … or should I leave them alone and don’t mind’em?
Writing on the Linux Kernel Developers mailing list yesterday, Torvalds responded when a developer wrote that he (Torvalds) “was quite impressed with the toned down version of the final draft of GPLv3.”
I was impressed in the sense that it was a hell of a lot better than the disaster that were the earlier drafts.
I still [...]
“EFF is partnering with Novell to try to get rid of software patents that are hurting innovation all over the world,” stated Shari Steele, Executive Director of the EFF in an interview prior to the panel session. In essence, Novell is committed to working with the EFF to improve patent quality, while at the [...]
When we enter the world of “free and open source software”, most of us will choose one or the other philosophy. This choice is usually made easy by the people that guide us when we enter this world. We are at a point where the philosophies behind free software, which have been heralded by Richard [...]
So which desktop should you choose? The answer must be both personal and context-based. Some users make their decision on the basis of aesthetics, arguing that one desktop is more corporate-looking or friendlier than the other. Others choose on the basis of a feature that is important to their work or habits, such as [...]
Since OSDL and the FSG were formed, more than six years ago, Linux has grown enormously in server, desktop, and embedded usage around the world - driving more than $15 billion in annual sales of hardware, software, and services according to market research firm Gartner Group. Moreover, the open source model now dominates new [...]
This is truly evident by what off-work programmers are able to do with “legacy” hardware. While Microsoft’s tagline is “Wow” for Windows Vista; in all honesty - anyone that has been around a computer at all know that Vista’s graphics are far from revolutionary.
Mac has had Expose for quite a while now and works much [...]
In a world where digitization and information processing is pervasive, information technology has to get less expensive. If you don’t consider evaluating open source as an option to drive down costs, you are neglecting your charter as head of technology. InfoWorld just released the results of a survey they did, which showed that 36 percnt [...]
With all the hype regarding Open Source Software (OSS), we sometimes forget logic in the excitement of trying to get on board with this latest trend. What we really care about (or should care about) is making a sound business decision regarding software. Think you should be hopping on the OSS bandwagon just because [...]
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