Red Hat, Inc. announced that today a jury in federal court in Marshall, Texas, returned a verdict in favor of Red Hat, Inc. and Novell, Inc. in a case alleging patent infringement brought by IP Innovation LLC, a subsidiary of Acacia Research Corporation and Technology Licensing Corporation.

This blog story is long, so even though I can only recommend reading the long story, here's the one sentence summary: we are experimenting with a new init system and it is fun.

Ubuntu 10.04 was officially released yesterday, April 29th 2010. I was curious to see if my initial impressions when reviewing the Beta were accurate, so I went ahead and tested it. On top of that, I wanted to find out how much improvement actually took place on this final version.

The patent troll known as Acacia loses its case against Red Hat and against Novell

Late last week, it was noted that the beta release of Red Hat Linux Enterprise 6 would no longer include support for the Xen hypervisor. Instead, Red Hat is throwing all of its virtualization efforts on KVM moving forward. This raised a few eyebrows in the virtualization community, and led some pundits to question the future of Xen without Red Hat.

[PDF] Dan Murphy: «...TECO continued to be heavily used and enhanced by the hackers in Minsky’s AI lab, eventually including Richard Stallman.In the early to mid-1970s, Stallman would make some key enhancements to TECO that allowed it to become a fully interactive, WYSIWYG-style onscreen editor [...] This became the origina

We are now very near from final release. Here comes the second beta release for 2010 Spring version of Mandriva Linux.

Imagine a machine sitting at a library, that had no operating system on it, except a livedvd. The livedvd has a disabled root account, and the only user account is xguest. The xguest account can only talk to web ports and when you logout all files and processes get destroyed.