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
October 1, 2006
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Virtualization has been used for decades in mid-range and mainframes, but now, thanks to faster and more powerful processors, virtualization is moving from IT-managed server rooms to the x86-powered server in the corner. Virtualization enables a single computer run multiple … 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
September 1, 2006
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We won’t be seeing it until early 2007, but Adobe is hard at work on bringing Flash Player 9 to Linux. In a series of recent blog postings, Adobe’s lead engineer on the Flash Player team, Mike Melanson, has been … Continue reading
August 29, 2006
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The results of DesktopLinux.com’s 2006 Desktop Linux Market survey are in, and the votes are all tallied. This first article of a series offers a perspective on how the various desktop Linux distributions fared, and why. Before jumping into what … Continue reading