June, 2007

Parsing patent promises

A column at the New York Times keeps the Linux patent debate in the spotlight for one more day...

What a difference 16 years makes....

Fedora 7 Xen First Look

Having spent a few days with Fedora 7, I have found that, while still a bit buggy, the updated Xen tools show some real promise. The Good The new version of...

Alienation Nation: Is the GPL turning off developers?

Slashdot commenter captnitrino:

My drive is in writing code, and being able to look at other code that has what I want, plain and simple. In that sense, the GPL made it easy to do those two things: all...

Installing VMware Server on Fedora 7

Fedora 7 just launched the other day, so let's throw up a handy tip for installing VMware Server, shall we? HowtoForge's into on the install:

This tutorial...

Slashdot readers dish out SELinux advice

There's some cool commentary going on

The future of Linux: Microsoft?!

While the Linux blogosphere stews over Xandros' apparent defection to the dark side of the force, ZDNet blogger Ed Burnette waxes cynically on the future of Linux:

One by one, free and open source software providers are signing...

2007: Year of the Linux ‘patent covenant?’

MORE UPDATES (o6/07/07): ComputerWorld is reporting this morning that LG has also jumped on board with Microsoft for...