Microsoft's ambitions to maintain dominance through hypervisors materialises if it can lock out/neglect Linux rivals, using Xen, Novell and others.
Read more »Xen Post Citrixsoft Takeover: More Windows Desktop, Less GNU/Linux Server
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Compiling Wormux 0.8 from Source
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Wormux is an open source clone of the classic game Worms. It's a multiplayer turn-based game in which teams of open source mascots battle on a deformable landscape with a variety of weapons. Wormux 0.8 was recently released, bringing networked multiplayer, new maps, weapons, bugfixes, and more.
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SCO's Updates its "Legal Update" Page
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SCO has posted some new materials on its Legal Update page, under a bizarre header, "Update on Rights to Continue Our UNIX Business." Has that ever been in dispute? If so, I've missed it. And isn't that exactly what SCO keeps trying to sell, its Unix business? I'm confused, unless one defines SCO's "business" as the business of litigation.
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OOXML Incidents Index: From [T]hailand to [V]ietnam
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This is the last portion and some concluding words on what to do next.
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Making that old PC useful
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I’ve recently upgraded my pc with new hardware, and the only thing I didn’t replace was the case. That meant that all I had to do to keep the old hardware useful was dig out an old case somewhere, and rebuild it. By modern standards, it’s a very modest machine, with an AMD Athlon 1800 CPU, 512MB of memory, and a crappy nVidia nForce4 compatible integrated video chip.
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$200 computers
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The KMart store clerk looks around and shows off the $600 or so PC, which was not in her target price range. After a bit more asking the clerk goes, “Well, we do have 1 machine in the back. Every store has only gotten one, but it’s only $200.
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Novell's big opportunity
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I never would have thought I'd be saying that, but whatever the cause of Novell's resurgence, it feels like the company is making a serious comeback. I've seen it with my own company, where an increasing number of our customers are requesting SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES).
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DKMS support arrives at the common desktop
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Some time ago Dell introduced the dynamic kernel module support (DKMS) to automatically recompile kernel modules during kernel updates. Now the first average-user apps supporting dkms emerged: VirtualBox and ATI graphics drivers.
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Using Perl On Linux To Do Mass Synchronization Of File Time Stamps
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Quick and easy way to use Perl's command line execution mode to copy timestamps to multiple files or directories.
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Practical Linux home security
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Most all modern home computer users are switched on to the fact they have to protect their computer from nasties: anti-virus, anti-spam, firewalls have all entered the common vernacular. If you don’t use 'that' operating system from Redmond though does this still apply? And what packages should you use?
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Lessons learned from Ubuntu
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While wandering the Ubuntu site (www.ubuntu.com) to take a look at the new Hardy Heron / 8.04 LTS version, I went all philosophical and tried to think of any lessons that the Puppy Community could learn from that of Ubuntu. Now please note this is not a dig at the Puppy Community, we are one of the best out there, I'm just taking a step back and pondering to myself.
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Linux May Power New Nokia Phones
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The world's top handset maker Nokia Oyj expects the role of the Linux operating system in its product portfolio to increase as the role of its Internet-focused devices grows, company officials said.
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Choosing the right license for your new Free Software project
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"Writing the software is only one component of a successful Free Software project. If you want to build a community around your pet project, there are a number of important things you need to do but which typically fall outside of the "coding" job. One of these tasks is choosing a license..."
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Review: Banshee 1.0
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Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier takes Banshee’s 1.0 alpha for a spin to see if it can handle the competition. Verdict? Banshee stacks up with the best of them for media playback.
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Get Emacs with Git
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"A Git mirror of the Emacs CVS repository is available. git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs.git ..."
* Savannah Git hosting: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/
* Everyday GIT http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/everyday.html
* Tutorial http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/tutorial.html
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