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Lawsuits such as those from The SCO Group are symptomatic of open source's success, says Mitch Kapor: "You know you're (really successful) when the big-time parasites show up." He was speaking to members of the Python community at the PyCon conference in Washington, DC.

While the folks at http://thelinuxbox.org were ironing out the logistical details of running their home desktop kit PC contest. They happened upon a Linux installer model http://thelinuxbox.org/Net_installer.html that could also help the GNU/Linux community generally. And is a logical extension of the joint 2004 predictions of Brian Proffit and Eric S. Raymond on the Linux Show http://www.thelinuxshow.com/archives/2004/tls-01-06-2004.mp3 (minute 31:50-35:00) that the various core distributions would all move to a dynamically upgradeable unified repositories model.

As their nemesis, Microsoft, was sanctioned by the European Commission for anticompetitive trespasses, computer giant Hewlett-Packard Co. gave Linux a new vote of confidence, and the largest Linux distributor posted strong financial results. Yet uncertainty surrounds the community-built software's ability to chip away at Windows' dominance, particularly on desktop computers.

Lindows asked the court to stop Microsoft from routing it out of foreign markets, and the judge, bowing to Lindows' wishes to hear its plea on an expedited basis, listen to what everyone had to say on Wednesday. He then suggested that Microsoft refrain from harrying Lindows in Europe and Canada and in exchange he'll let Microsoft appeal his decision that as part of this whole affair a jury has to decide whether Windows is a generic word or not.

Mumbai based Technoinfosys, has introduced a new opensource software - Technoinfosys Linux SBS 2004 - and is looking to expand its channel across the country to market the product.

"Windows is a state-of-the-art operating system designed for state-of-the-art computers," he said, not the pitiful dumbed-down thing the EC wants to foist on the poor unsuspecting European consumer - and calling it Windows amounts to compulsory licensing of the Windows trademark, a defense that Microsoft is going to use when it appeals the EC's negative antitrust decision to the Court of First Instance in Luxembourg.

LynuxWorks will demonstrate a version of its BlueCat Linux running on LSI Logic's RapidChip "Platform ASIC" at the Embedded Systems Conference next week in San Francisco. The combination targets communications equipment makers developing custom system-on-chips (SoCs) based on ARM processors running Linux in conjunction with LSI's off-the-shelf cores.

I came across this Microsoft OpenOffice 1.1 Competitive Guide through a post on the TTLUG mailing list, and decided to answer it fully in a FDLed response because it will save quite a few people from typing everything.

Lawrence Lessig, an influential scholar who advocates greater consumer rights to use copyright works, as well as Linux and the open-source movement, is making his latest book available for free on the Internet.

The Chennai-based Accel ICIM, one of the leading providers of total IT solutions, has been appointed by Sun Microsystems as its premier Linux System provider to roll out its Linux initiative for India. As part of the deal, the company will set up two Linux Competency centres in Chennai and Delhi with a total investment of Rs 2 crore. The centres will have a total of 100 Linux professionals and the company is targeting a revenue of Rs 40 crore from its Linux line of business.

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) has filed a lawsuit against Gateway Inc. that accuses HP's rival of violating six technology patents relating to desktop, notebook and server computer systems.

Red Hat's desktop plans are in full swing, according to execs at today's London leg of its World Tour. Despite dropping further development of Red Hat 9 from 30 April and focussing on the server market, Red Hat hasn't taken its eye off the desktop game. Currently, the nearest thing to a Linux desktop from Red Hat is the workstation version - Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS. But Deb Woods, VP of Product Management said that Red Hat developers are 'scurrying' around pretty quickly on that, but that the company won't make announcements on a delivery until shortly before its release.

I am preparing the third revision of the current stable Debian distribution (woody) and will infrequently send reports so people can actually comment on it and intervene whenever this is required.

Red Hat just posted the best quarter in its history though its CEO Matthew Szulik says privately that "It's not enough."

As Linux gains ground as a legitimate alternative to traditional enterprise-heavy operating environments, it is inevitable that ancillary products also start gaining acceptance. One such product is Nagios, a Linux-based remote systems monitoring tool.

Embedded Linux enabled engineers at Zultys to incorporate an astonishing range of functions and features in the new Zip 4x5 phone. Alongside VoIP features impressive in their own right, the 4x5 offers an integrated VPN router, switch, firewall, and analog phone. But wait -- there's more!

HP's enterprise assault with SuSE for desktops and notebooks is no problem, says Redmond. Microsoft has said that it is unconcerned by Hewlett Packard's plan to offer Linux on business PCs.

In a bid to turn potential interest into action, Linux support shops such as IBM (Quote, Chart) and Timesys are trying to nudge customers off the fence about whether to switch. In the process, they have their eye on Windows NT, which is being phased out as an older enterprise operating system, as a potential in for Linux. For example, IBM has been touting its Windows-to-Linux roadmap. And Timesys has rolled out five white papers discussing the 2.6 kernel.

I call her ITina, short for IT in a Box IT-100. She's a petite little number, smaller than my laptop computer, stylishly cased in grey and adorned with colorful LEDs. She's a Linux-based server with a wide range of capabilities. Though she's a classy package, she's neither high-priced, at $1,395, nor high-maintenance.

It might have seemed to be the best possible week for boosters of the Linux open-source operating system. As their nemesis, Microsoft Corp., was getting sanctioned by Europe for anticompetitive trespasses, computer giant Hewlett-Packard Co. gave Linux a new vote of confidence, and the largest Linux distributor posted strong financial results.