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It's a Virtual World
Eric Cowperthwaite has setup five different VM's on his Windows laptop (Fedora Core, SlackWare, Debian, DSL and Puppy) using VMware Player. He reports his experiences.
DesktopBSD 1.0 RC3 Screencast
LinClips has put together an interesting screencast of DesktopBSD 1.0 RC3.
People Behind KDE: Tom Chance
We know him as one of the KDE promotion heroes. He has a very long description of himself, he has a t-shirt with an interesting history and he has an explicit view on the Torvalds vs. Stallman question.
Linux XP Desktop 2006 Screencast
LinClips has a cool screencast of the new Linux XP Desktop 2006.
Oxer, Waugh retain Linux Australia spots
Incumbents Jon Oxer and Pia Waugh have retained their respective positions as president and vice president of Australia's peak Linux body for another year.
Loan Linux Your Larynx - Let Your Voice Be Heard…No, REALLY Heard
When These guys say they are heavy into community involvement...they mean involvement. Not mentioned in the actual article, this project will be scanning snippets of files for "That Perfect Voice." That Perfect Voice could end up as the "official" radio voice of Linux.
E-Trade VP Talks Open-Source
Q&A: E-Trade's Vice President of Architecture Lee Thompson explains how the company has leveraged open source to save millions of dollars annually.
How safe is Linux really
Catchy title huh? It's the major subject in this months issue of Linux Magazine.
NCS Introduces Ultra-Compact, Low-Cost, Low-Power and Super-Quiet Set-top Server Appliance Platforms
Platforms Include New Fanless and Diskless Appliance Suitable for Office Deployment
Understanding UNIX/Linux file system
A conceptual understanding of file system, especially data structure and related terms will help you become a successful system administrator.
Linux News Questions Corel's Support of OpenDocument
LXer Feature: 16-Jan-06With OASIS ODF member Corel chanting a Microsoft mantra on OpenDocument - that is, they'll support it if they see customer demand - Linux News wonders aloud if a "family" connection between Corel and Microsoft exists.
HP and PolyServe Clustered Gateway Declared 'Best NAS Killer'
InfoWorld 2006 Technology of the Year Awards Honors Powerful File-Serving Combination of HP Servers and PolyServe Clustering Software
Microsoft Takes a Dump on the European Commission
Microsoft apparently struggled with the European Commission deadline for delivering documentation associated with their server protocols. So, Microsoft characteristically offered something else and the EU wants to think about it.
What's Left Of Unix?
Take off your hard hat because this article speaks favorably about Linux as in Linux has finally made it to major media. This article made the cover of Information Week on January 23, 2006. Our hats off to Babcock and Co. for finally "getting it".
Linux Growth in Developing Countries Soaring Past Microsoft
US trained technology managers proliferate developing countries. They worked in the US, they came back and they're bringing GNU/Linux with them. As for Microsoft, vendors don't even talk about them these days.
Chrooted SSH HowTo
This tutorial describes how to install and configure OpenSSH so that it will allow chrooted sessions for users. With this setup, you can give your users shell access without having to fear that they can see your whole system. Your users will be jailed in a specific directory which they will not be able to break out of.
Byebye Google.
[opionion]Google's recent decision to comply with the Chinese Governments "requirements" have brought things to a head for me. I'm not going to use Google anymore. I don't want anything to do with a company that is prepared to accommodate repression like this.
OpenSolaris (maybe) dual licensed GPLv3
Want to laugh and get sick at the same time? Then click on this link and get a picture of the mouth that ate Silicon Valley. Sun's buffoon says little of substance, but he continues to rattle away. In this article he's bragging about the 4 million downloads of OpenSolaris. That's somewhere around the volume of Linux in a single day. But he continues to be impressed with himself.
Whoever submitted this blog entry may not have realized the animosity some of us have for the clown of Mountain View. His comedy act: Never shutting up and never saying anything that works out.
The moral of this introduction: Poor Sun.
Whoever submitted this blog entry may not have realized the animosity some of us have for the clown of Mountain View. His comedy act: Never shutting up and never saying anything that works out.
The moral of this introduction: Poor Sun.
A Rare Glimpse Into Richard Stallman's World
In the January 23 issue of Information Week, K.C. Jones provides an attempt to analyze RMS using psycho-babble. While some might consider K.C. Jones a bit foolish for taking this approach, from a journalistic point of view he wrote an excellent article and Free software got some serious media coverage. You might find this portrayal of RMS informative and then some.
Open Microsoft
I spent two days this past week at Microsoft Search Champs, a conference where invitees make suggestions for their search tools and other MSN offerings. Microsoft paid for everything and picked our brains concerning a lot of different topics, some under NDA and some public.
Why would I do this, and why would they want me there? I've been associated with the free software movement for at least ten years. But while I value openness, I also value functionality. If you browse my articles and blogs about Microsoft, you'll find about as many positive references as negative ones. I appreciate new solutions and technologies from all vendors, and I think one company's success will provide a model and a motivation for others to move forward.
Andy Oram is an editor for O'Reilly Media, specializing in Linux and free software books, and a member of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. His web site is http://www.praxagora.com/andyo.
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