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While announcing the name of Ubuntu's next release for October, 2007, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth spoke of a new version of the Ubuntu distribution to be released alongside Gutsy Gibbon. This release, he says, will not include any firmware, drivers, applications, and even sounds and imagery...
Read More | Apr 15th, 2007 | Comments: 10 | Last Comment: Apr 17th, 2007
Open source means that it's not possible to pirate the software, right? Well, somehow OpenBSD developers have found out exactly how you can do that, by copying sections of some Linux wireless drivers (released under the GPL of course) and then releasing them under OpenBSD's less-restrictive...
Read More | Apr 7th, 2007 | Comments: 5 | Last Comment: Apr 8th, 2007
For those of you who use Microsoft products on a daily basis (I'm included in that list...my job uses WinXP daily) Linux might seem silly or stupid. You might think the people that use it are just nerds or geeks or those people with IQ's tipping the scales at 180.
In today's world, that just...
Read More | Apr 4th, 2007
Red Hat's been the king of Linux for a while -- but as of lately, it's been quite some time since they released an update to their enterprise edition of their distribution, RHEL. 2 years in fact. Now, Red Hat has finally released a new version of RHEL: REHL 5. So it's pretty safe to say that...
Read More | Mar 16th, 2007 | Comments: 3 | Last Comment: Mar 22nd, 2007
When we think of "open source", many things come to mind: free, created by volunteers, open to everyone, no profits, etc. That's the steriotype that the media paints mostly, and that when open source programs are created, they are done for the passion of it, and not at all for money. That's the way...
Read More | Mar 1st, 2007 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Mar 7th, 2007
When asked if Vista is going to be a success, most people answer "yes" for various reasons: good interface, XP is getting old, it's going to be sold with new PCs anyway. Wait... really? Dell's new Dimension n-Series might be aiming to change that a little bit.
The website even talks about Linux...
Read More | Jan 26th, 2007 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Jan 28th, 2007
In response to this article, which claims that Java could soon become an important programming language in Linux due to the recent open-sourcing of Java:
http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6939729453.html
It's actually very unlikely that it will happen. This article is stating that the main...
Read More | Jan 13th, 2007
With the recent release of Wesnoth 1.2, the open-source strategy game, the game's developmet never seems to stop. It's so popular, and it's addictive to play.
These days, anybody without internet access is considered to be "living in the dark ages". And with the ever-growing popularity of social...
Read More | Dec 24th, 2006
Why doesn't everyone switch to Linux? Is it because it's too difficult? Not exactly. The problem with Linux isn't because you have to run millions of commands to start it up, it's because it gives users too many options.
Commercial companies like Microsoft standardize their product when they...
Read More | Dec 7th, 2006 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Jan 4th, 2007
