Scarcely a week goes by when I don't hear about yet another new (or relatively new) open source project that stands in for a proprietary solution. Consider Untangle, a network gateway appliance than runs on any commodity hardware and handles spam, firewalling, Web filtering and protocol controls, VPN, and tons more. They'll even send you a preloaded demo server.

I was reading The Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptops, when I was stunned by something I didn't know about openSUSE 11.

Here’s a bit from occasional contributor Imagineer66 in response to my throw-away comment that choosing between Microsoft Office and OpenOffice on functionality is like choosing between tweedle dum and tweedle dee:

The Novell “partnership” with Microsoft has been a hot topic in Linux circles since it was announced a few years ago. Recently, Novell and Microsoft introduced a joint-marketing site to promote their collaboration.

"At the beginning of this month I helped a programmer modifying a Perl program he had written, and gave some advice on the how and why of my modifications. When he asked me how I wanted to be compensated for my help, I asked for a copy of the sixteenth edition of the GNU Emacs Manual [...] But why Emacs, you might wonder? ..."

One story not told often enough involves Linux’ growing domination of the embedded market. In this space Linux usually stacks up against older Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS). The decision by Wind River, the largest RTOS vendor, to migrate toward Linux was a turning point.

In this article, we cover how to create, use, modify, and ultimately master run-levels. Bookmark this page with your favorite bookmarking service, and rest easy about ever missing that interview question again.

So, more filings in the SCO bankruptcy, and more bills. The accountants, Tanner, have filed their 8th interim bill since SCO filed for Chapter 11 protection. Astonishing, isn't it? The grand total of all of Tanner's bills comes to $264,296.30 plus expenses. When SCO first filed, back in September of 2007, it actually still had some money. How about now?