Linux and Open Source

On Tuesday Codeweavers announced Version 4.0 of their Windows-to-Linux crossover utility, Crossover Office.

November 17, 2004 by Dana Blankenhorn

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In other words, if you don't like the park you're walking in, walk somewhere else. That's your responsibility as the user

November 17, 2004 by Dana Blankenhorn

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A few thoughts on the recently-announced Linux Core Consortium (LCC). Providing that none of the members of the LCC go rabidly litigious and anti-Linux, as SCO did shortly after joining the UnitedLinux effort, the LCC has a fair shot at long-term influence.

November 17, 2004 by Joe Brockmeier

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As RISC architecture was to the 1980s, so grid computing is to our time, a fundamental re-arrangement of computing that promises to deliver more speed, and more power, to more people than it would seem Moore's Law might allow. Open source now has a big dog in the fight.

November 17, 2004 by Dana Blankenhorn

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Here's a quick shout-out from the Open Source blog to Apachecon, that glorious time when lovers of the Web's top open source server get together to trade tips, techniques, and knowledge.This year they're under the Las Vegas sun at the Alexis Park Resort, one of the few hotels in town without a casino.

November 17, 2004 by Dana Blankenhorn

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One problem open source advocates seldom acknowledge is the disrespect many people have toward what's held in common.You see it in the world with "street spammers" nailing ads to trees in public parks.

November 16, 2004 by Dana Blankenhorn

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While the folks in Redmond would prefer an all-Microsoft world, their investment in Vintela shows that they know it isn't likely to happen. Microsoft and Vintela are working together on technologies that allow Microsoft's Active Directory to manage users on other platforms, as well as ways to allow Active Directory to manage nix objects.

November 16, 2004 by Joe Brockmeier

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The recent hiring of a former Microsoft executive, Nat Brown, by Linux developer CAC Media of New York leads me to our question of the day.Can the open source community live with Digital Rights Management (DRM)?

November 15, 2004 by Dana Blankenhorn

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As Sun cranks up the hype machine for Solaris 10, one of the technologies we keep hearing about is Janus. Sun's Janus is a technology that's supposed to allow Solaris users to run Linux binaries on Solaris, unmodified.

November 15, 2004 by Joe Brockmeier

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Hypochondriacs get sick. They even die. Just because you're paranoid does not mean they are not out to get you.

November 14, 2004 by Dana Blankenhorn

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