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"Linux is everywhere. it's in your Web server. It's in your data center. It's in your desktop, your laptop and your handheld. It may soon be in your car and home appliances. It's being used by NASA to operate the Mars rover."

"Amazon.com Inc. is among the largest, most visible proponents of the Linux operating system. When questions are raised about the capabilities of Linux to scale and be sufficiently secure to operate enterprise systems, Amazon is often cited as an example to answer those questions. At the recent LinuxWorld conference in New York, Eric Lundquist, editor in chief of eWEEK, had a chance to sit down with Tom Killalea, vice president of infrastructure at Amazon.com."

"Security company WatchGuard has launched an appliance for smaller companies to combat hackers, worms and DDoS attacks"

"Taking place on the prestigious Del Mar Fairgrounds, Desktop Linux Summit 2004 will take place from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on April 22 and 23, 2004. Desktop Linux Summit 2003 accommodated 600 participants, and sold out almost a month before the actual event. Anticipating unparalleled interest in the growing desktop Linux movement, this year's venue will accommodate twice that, with the number of both exhibitors and attendees expected to double from last year."

"The only issue in trying NeedleSearch is that it only works with the open-source web browser, Mozilla. Don't think of this as a drawback. If you've never tried Mozilla, by all means do so. It's free, and offers many compelling features, in addition to being largely unburdened by the all too frequent glitches that require patches to Internet Explorer."

Historically, the company has been a notable contributor to the GNU community and is a major proponent of Linux on the desktop.

"In the hopes of gaining more control over their infrastructure, more university IT administrators are accelerating plans to migrate to open-source technology with its code, not just the company that made it."

"Updated kernel packages are now available that fix a few security issues, an NFS performance issue, and an e1000 driver loading issue introduced in Update 3."

Anaheim, CA. The first EclipseCon is off to a good start. Yesterday was tutorials day. Today was the first day of the conference itself. Attendance figures are still not official, but 600 plus or minus a few is a good guess. It's also well above the number hoped for by the show planners. John Wiegand (IBM) and Eric Gamma started with proceedings this morning with the first keynote: a "State of the union" address on the Eclipse platform. There was SRO for the keynote. At least 50 attendees lined the back wall of the ballroom, or sat on the steps between the two levels of the room, to hear the keynote.

I note that in the interview, McBride mentions that back then they had "a commitment to bring Microsoft into the picture", he was close to Noorda when they did the purchase from USL in '93, and his problem with Linux is that he wants it to be a paid item, like bottled water, that you "buy now, buy often".

I want to do a systematic, comprehensive, and carefully documented history timeline relating to Unix and Linux, based, with his kind permission, on Eric Levenez's Unix History timeline chart, but from the perspective of tracing the code by copyright, patents, trade secret, and trademark.

If you have ever wondered how the kernel is built...

"Steve Kemp from the GNU/Linux audit project discovered a problem in crawl, another console based dungeon exploration game, in the vein of nethack and rogue. The program uses several environment variables as inputs but doesn't apply a size check before copying one of them into a fixed size buffer."

"In short, it's not working quite well enough to push out yet," Red Hat developer Bill Nottingham said on Sunday on a mailing list about the test1 version of Fedora Core 2.

Can someone explain to me how Red Hat got to be the most popular Linux distribution in the U.S.? Technology isn't the answer; other distros have tangible advantages there. If good marketing is the answer, Red Hat's days at the top are numbered; with Novell behind it, SUSE is going to kick Red Hat's crown.

"Aleph One is shipping a one-ounce, one-watt, 206MHz StrongARM-based single-board computer (SBC) that comes pre-installed with embedded Linux and features an 'open source' hardware design. Aleph One encourages device designers to freely use the design, and contribute back implementation details useful to others."

"Industry watcher Rob Enderle no longer responds to angry e-mails from Linux supporters. The principal analyst for the Enderle Group (San Jose, Calif.) says he replied to the first thousand or so. But after that, the anger and profanities that many of the missives contained began to wear on him."

"Just released, Linux Netwosix is a powerful and optimized Linux distribution for servers and network-security related jobs. It can be also used for special operations as penetration test with its big collection of software and sources security oriented."

"Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) today announced that Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), the world's largest telecommunications company, has joined OSDL and will participate in the Lab's Data Center Linux and Carrier Grade Linux working group initiatives."

"The compay has launched its Certified Linux Engineer (CLE) program, including the CLE Practicum exam, and the SUSE Certified Linux Professional certification, which recognizes expertise on the SUSE LINUX distribution."