September 1, 2008
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While the worldwide server market’s factory revenue grew 6.4% over the last year, according to the IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Server Track, Linux server revenue was running ahead of the curve at a growth rate of 10%. The economy may be … Continue reading
July 30, 2008
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Color me surprised. Dana Blankenhorn, a well-known writer about Linux and open source recently asked for someone—anyone–to send him a loaner Linux laptop to replace his now dead Windows laptop. What, he didn’t already have one? Now, you can write … Continue reading
July 29, 2008
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Likewise Software has released a new, open-source version of its eponymous AD (Active Directory) program for integrating Linux, Unix and Mac systems into AD. Likewise Fall includes two main features. The most important, LWIS (Likewise Identity Services) enables you to … Continue reading
July 25, 2008
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Here’s how it works: Novell owns Unix’s IP (intellectual property). SCO sold Unix’s IP to Sun. Sun then included some Unix IP into Solaris. Finally, Sun open sourced Solaris as OpenSolaris. Sounds like trouble, doesn’t it? While Sun’s Chief Open … Continue reading
July 21, 2008
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You’d think the electronics vendors who keep breaking the GPL by using the BusyBox Unix utilities would finally learn that they can’t get away with it. It doesn’t look like they have though. This time the SFLC (Software Freedom Law … Continue reading
July 16, 2008
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You know zombie movies. You chop ’em. You set ’em on fire. You machine-gun ’em and they just keep coming. They’re scary at first, but then, except for the very best zombie movies – Night of the Living Dead, 28 … Continue reading