October 11, 2006
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Nearly a year in the making, the OSDL and freedesktop.org today announced general availability of Portland 1.0, the first set of common interfaces for GNOME and KDE desktops. This support may be a small step for GNOME and KDE, but … Continue reading
October 9, 2006
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I love free software. I use open-source programs and operating systems every day. But once in a while, I want to take some free software developers and shake them until their teeth rattle. At the moment, I’m ticked off because … Continue reading
October 4, 2006
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Some people think that I’m always pro-Linux and anti-Microsoft. Nope. That’s not true. I’m pro what works, and I’m anti what doesn’t work. Most of the time, Linux has been a winner. But, sometimes, it isn’t. And, that brings me … Continue reading
October 3, 2006
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George Weiss, Gartner’s open-source analyst, recently said that Microsoft Windows will not suffer irreparable damage on the server side at the hands of Linux over the next five years. He’s right. Microsoft will fall flat on its face all by … Continue reading
September 29, 2006
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Would you believe that two open-source powers are battling over the Firefox Fox logo? Well, believe it. Mozilla Corp. is insisting that when a Linux distributor includes its own variation of the popular web-browser, Firefox, with its operating system, it … Continue reading
September 22, 2006
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Many of the top Linux developers have announced their objections to the proposed GPLv3. In a position paper released on September 22, leading Linux developers like Andrew Morton, James E.J. Bottomley, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Christoph Hellwig, and six others explained in … Continue reading