March, 2007

GPLv3: Too ambiguous for its own good?

I'm doing some follow up on the discussion draft of GPLv3 today, and it's not going well for the folks at the Free Software Foundation. The positive press that surrounded the draft on day one has melted away to reveal what...

GPLv3 Dicscussion Draft out now

You can head on over the the Free Software Foundation to read the whole thing, or check the highlights below. Changes in this draft include:

• First-time violators can have their license automatically restored if they remedy the...

Open source systems management

Are IT management and network monitoring options from IBM, HP and the other two in the "big four" bloated? Seems they are, if you're talking to Zenoss CEO Bill Karpovich. Zenoss is an open source IT management company and while IT management in and of itself is...

Linux kernel to include VMI

eWEEK is reporting that the next stable release of the Linux kernel, version 2.6.21, will include a new feature submitted by VMware Inc. called VMI, or Virtual Machine Interface.

The...

OpenDocument Format Alliance celebrates one year anniversary

I used to cover the OpenDocument Format in spades over at SearchEnterpriseLinux.com, but things have been a bit quiet on that front for a while, at least from our site's coverage of it anyway. But the slow boil that is ODF (an open...

Reduce your Linux memory footprint

IBM software engineer Martyn Honeyford has a paper up on developerWorks that getting some notice over at Digg.com because it teaches users...

Watch out Oracle — MySQL rising (to 40%)

From Stephen Shankland over at CNET comes good news for MySQL fans:

You now can discard any lingering traces of doubt that the open-source MySQL database competes with the incumbent proprietary products from Oracle, Microsoft...

Ubuntu Feisty Fawn beta delayed

A slight delay today for the beta release of Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, according to the Ubuntu developer mailing list. The beta release of Ubuntu Feisty was delayed for a day because of a kernel regression issue that caused problems booting a large number of systems. A new kernel has been uploaded and...

Red Hat’s new one-page SLA in pictures

Are you curious what a service level agreement looks like after its been through the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 SLA wringer?

Second preview release of Samba 3.0.25

*NOTE* This is the second preview release of the Samba 3.0.25 code base and is provided for testing only. It is NOT intended for production servers. Major features included in the 3.0.25 code base include:

• Significant improvements in the winbind off-line logon support.
• Support...