Found the following quote in this eWeek article interesting:
“Working at Microsoft today vs. five years ago is different,” Kroese said. “If anyone thinks the antitrust case hasn't slowed us down, you're wrong. If I want to meet with a products manager for Windows there needs to be three lawyers in the room. We have to be so careful, we err on the side of caution. We are on such a fine line of conduct.”
Maybe the antitrust case actually did get something accomplished.
–jeremy
Archive for January, 2005
Only a few days left to vote in the 2004 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards. We have a couple extremely close races going, so your vote could be the difference!
–jeremy
OK, asking a question like this on Slashdot is surely a recipe for disaster, but I have to admit that I was extremely surprised by the almost complete lack of “Novell” as an answer. I tend to favor RHEL or Debian in the large install situations, but have to admit that the real answer is that the admin matters way more than the distro in most cases.
–jeremy
You may have noticed that I've been a bit quieter than usual. I've been putting quite a bit of time into LQ Radio (unfortunately not all the news there is good) and also have not only my usual Tech Support column to write, but also a feature article this month. LQ Radio should hopefully be situated soon and I'm already done with 1 of the 2 articles, so I should be back to normal soon (although with LWE Boston coming up quickly I'll likely be slightly quieter than normal for about 2 more weeks).
–jeremy
I just posted the LQ Radio intro spot. Let me know what you think.
–jeremy
Just posted a quick update on the status of LQ Radio. The summary?
- Thanks to Doug from IT Conversations for the help
- The intro should be recorded tomorrow
We're getting closer….
–jeremy
In one of its first major hardware moves since dumping its PC division, IBM has now released a Linux only Power5-based Server. The 2 processor OpenPower 710 was posted briefly on the IBM site, but was pulled after an article was posted at the Register. IBM has offered Linux on some of its power-based servers before, but this is the first Linux only model to my knowledge. The OpenPower 710 appears to be lacking some of the bells and whistles that the higher end models that run AIX have, so this should allow them to protect the more expensive models while still allowing them to compete with Intel and AMD. One of these for LQ would be nice 
–jeremy
The latest LinuxQuestions.org Podcast. Topics include our new audio setup, an update on our intro, the new LQ Radio logo and tagline, the new LQ bugtracker, a couple random LQ stats, a product announcement from IBM and the impact Microsoft has on software prices.
–jeremy
LQ Radio now has a tagline and a logo! Check it out and let me know what you think.
–jeremy
Intel has announced that Linux Laptops can now carry the Centrino logo on them. From the article:
Karen Regis, manager of mobile programs and promotions at the chipmaker said the reason for the change was that with the release of the 2.6.8 Linux kernel, the open source operating system's power management abilities now meet Intel's requirements for Centrino notebook battery life.
While this makes little technical difference (I've been using the Centrino in my Thinkpad since I got it), I think it's important for two reasons. First, the fact that Intel made such a large change in policy is significant from a precedence standpoint. Moving forward, hopefully all their products will have Linux support. Additionally, when a company of this size does something, often many other companies follow suit. Second, this should be a boon for the Linux Laptop market, which could really use a shot in the arm. With IBM dropping the Thinkpad there is a huge opportunity from someone to step up here and be the leader (the Thinkpad was a favorite among Linux user). Who will step up? I have no idea While part of me is really happy to see this announcement, another part of me can't help but wonder what took so long. Once again it's easy to forget how far we still have to go (and how far we've actually come).
–jeremy
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