June 12, 2007
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The good news for GNU GPLv3 (General Public License version 3) supporters is that Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, thinks the final draft is better than the earlier ones. The bad news is that he has “yet to see … Continue reading
June 1, 2007
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On May 31, Red Hats sponsored and community-supported open-source Fedora Project released the latest version of its distribution: Fedora 7. Besides being a cutting-edge Linux distribution, it features a new build capability that enables users to create their own custom … Continue reading
May 14, 2007
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on May 14 claimed that “Linux violates over 228 patents. Someday, for all countries that are entering WTO [the World Trade Organization], somebody will come and look for money to pay for the patent rights for … Continue reading
May 2, 2007
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In late April, SUSE Project Manager Andreas Jaeger announced on the openSUSE list that “Beginning with the next alpha release of openSUSE 10.3, alpha 4, ZENworks will be gone. Instead, openSUSE “will use the native tools only — Zypper, openSUSE-updater, … Continue reading
April 26, 2007
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It took longer than Linux creator Linus Torvalds would have liked, but the latest Linux kernel, version 2.6.21, has arrived. It brings many minor and major changes in how Linux handles process scheduling and time. In his April 25th release … Continue reading
April 9, 2007
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A few months late, Debian 4.0, aka Etch, has been released, but how many people actually will be running it? That’s not a trite question. It wasn’t that long ago that a new release of Debian would have the Linux … Continue reading