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December 14, 2004 Leave a comment
This LinuxQuestions.org Podcast includes more LQ Podcast and LQ Show updates, our participation in the LinuxWorld expo in Boston, a flurry of Linux expos and LQ being reviewed at NewsForge.
–jeremy
December 14, 2004 2 Comments
Tina Gasperson recently reviewed LQ for NewsForge. I have to admit that I had absolutely no knowledge at all that the review was coming, but I am extremely pleased with what was said! Thanks for the kind words Tina, and I'm glad you found the site useful.
–jeremy
December 11, 2004 Leave a comment
In a move that makes this a bit more interesting, Oracle announced that its key wares for business data centers – database software, clustering tools and collaboration apps – will now run on Novell's SuSE Enterprise Linux 9. Red Hat had been the only certified option for Oracle on Linux until this announcement and the Oracle space had been one of Red Hat's key strengths. The Enterprise Linux market is really heating up and it seems Novell is entrenching themselves for the long haul.
–jeremy
December 10, 2004 5 Comments
I am happy to report that this issue seems to be fixed as of the latest 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 FC3 kernel (although I don't see a specific mention in the Changelog). This means that I will no longer have to build RPMs for this. Yah!
–jeremy
December 9, 2004 1 Comment
This LinuxQuestions.org Podcast includes an audacity update, the announcement of an LQ Show, updated FC3 kernel that works with the iPod, Linux news and Scale 3x.
–jeremy
December 9, 2004 Leave a comment
I am proud to announce that LinuxQuestions.org is now a sponsor of the upcoming SCALE 3X. From the SCALE 3X site:
The USC, Simi/Conejo, and UCLA Linux User Groups are proud to present SCALE 3X: The Third Annual Southern California Linux Expo. To be held in February 2005, the Southern California Linux Expo will bring together Linux and Open Source Software companies, developers, and users.
The conference is in the Los Angeles Convention Center from February 12-13, 2005.
–jeremy
December 8, 2004 2 Comments
Well, what I feared here and here has become a reality. IBM has sold its PC unit to the Chinese company Lenovo. This does indeed mark the end of an era. While I can completely understand IBM wanting to get out of the commodity PC business, seeing them dump the Thinkpad is surprising. Unlike the whitebox market, the Thinkpad actually had a margin to it. For a long time now it was the only laptop I would purchase. It was also the only laptop I would recommend. Not sure what I'll do for my next laptop, but I'm seriously thinking it will be a powerbook (and I'm glad I recently grabbed a T42). They took a superior product that had a ton of R&D going into it and sold it to a company that admits to doing no R&D. That should work out well. This one should travel through the blogosphere like lightning and I'd guess IBM could potentially lose some of the geek karma they have been building up. They deserve to. The bottom line strikes again.
–jeremy
December 7, 2004 Leave a comment
Seems Dell thinks that the current RHEL prices are too high. I've commented to Red Hat on multiple occasions that I think they really left too much of a gap at the bottom. They appear to have gone over the numbers quite a bit though, and seem to be where they want to be. I wonder what impact a large partner voicing this in public will have. What I'd like to see is a cheap RHEL that comes with maintenance but no support. They seem very averse to that idea though.
–jeremy
December 5, 2004 Leave a comment
Sun recently submitted the CDDL to OSI for approval. The license is based on the Mozilla Public License, version 1.1. Will this license, if approved, be the one they use to Open Source Solaris? They won't yet admit it, but the timing seems to indicate that it's possible. It's unfortunate that the license is incompatible with the GPL and therefore Linux, but you almost had to expect that. One reason that it is incompatible is the patent protection clause. While this is not in the GPLv2, the FSF has said they think it's a good idea and it will likely be in the upcoming GPLv3. Overall I wasn't feeling too bad about this license. That is, until I read the following from Alan Cox:
If Sun are going open source then tell me why they've changed the MPL so they can include third party patented material without telling you (See the section 3 changes) and which you would have no rights to.
The MPL requires that anyone using third party patented material declares it so that you know if its contaminated and non-free as a contributed. The Sun license allows them to slip anything the like into the code then smile as a third party sues people for their contribution.
In general the changes are mundane (Software for Code etc) or in some cases quite sensible – legal jurisdiction, simplifying the definition of creator, but that one change is quite evil on first reading
Now it's true that Alan tends to be paranoid about these things, but he's a smart guy. We'll have to stay tuned to see how this one plays out. Sun has set the internal deadline for Solaris being Open Sourced at January 17th, 2005 – so we shouldn't have to wait too long.
–jeremy
December 4, 2004 Leave a comment
More info on this issue has been posted to the New York Times. The Chinese company interested is Lenovo, although it appears that there are also other interested parties. Still sucks.
–jeremy
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