July 20, 2011
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When Novell’s new owner, Attachmate, announced that it was letting Miguel de Icaza, the founder and lead developer of Mono go, I assumed Mono, the open-source implementation of Microsoft’s .NET was a dead development platform walking. Even after de Icaza … Continue reading
July 17, 2011
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Cats and dogs; apples and oranges; Linux and Microsoft. Two of these three things do not go together. Would you believe that Microsoft—yes Microsoft—was the fifth largest contributor to the soon to be released Linux 3.0 kernel? Believe it. In … Continue reading
July 14, 2011
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Of all the companies that support OpenOffice, there were only two that didn’t support the LibreOffice fork: Oracle and IBM. I could understand Oracle. While Larry Ellison, Oracle’s CEO, didn’t really care about OpenOffice–after all Oracle essentially gave OpenOffice away … Continue reading
July 13, 2011
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Come on! I like a lot of what Google does, but its refusal to keep malware-laden apps out of the Android Market is inexcusable. Just today, researchers at Lookout Mobile Security spotted more variants of DroidDream malware in the Android … Continue reading
July 6, 2011
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So you think you’re a Linux expert do you? You scored big-time on my two recent Linux quizzes: Are you a Linux guru? and Return of the Linux Quiz and you think you’re ready for the big time. Well, does … Continue reading
July 5, 2011
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Besides a V6 as your engine, your car is very likely to soon be running Linux under the hood. The Linux Foundation will be announcing today that Toyota is joining the Foundation. Some of you may be wondering, “What the … Continue reading