That New Market Is A Lulu
Red Hat co-founder Bob Young is back in the game, and his latest idea is a Lulu.Actually, that's its name -- Lulu.
Linux and Open Source
The latest news and views on all things Linux and open source by seasoned Unix and Linux user Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols.
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, aka sjvn, has been writing about technology and the business of technology since CP/M-80 was the cutting edge PC operating system. SJVN covers networking, Linux, open source, and operating systems.
Paula Rooney
Paula Rooney is a Boston-based writer who has followed the tech industry for more than two decades.
Latest Posts
Ingres joins the fray
Computer Associates (CA) has released Ingres r3 under their CA Trusted Open Source License.It will be interesting to see whether CA's Ingres r3 is successful as an open source project.
Wind River's Linux Embed
I think there is a boom waiting to happen.It starts by seeing wireless networking as a platform on which you build applications.
Election Day
Every political campaign comes with its quota of Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD). You think I'm bad, they say, you should see the other guy.
Firefox RC 1 released
The Mozilla Foundation announced today that the first release candidate for Firefox 1.0 is ready, though the main page still points (for me, anyway) to the first preview release instead.
Phishing for Linux
Preston Gralla would like to welcome Linux users to the world of malware. This is in reference to the phony security update claiming to be from Red Hat, asking users to download a patch that (if they're silly enough to do so) will compromise their system.
Open Source Program Of The Year
It's Scoop. Scoop was created by Kuro5hin, and it might have remained obscure but for one key "customer," a man named Markos Moulitas.
Windows is more secure?
If Steve Ballmer hadn't been tapped for his post at Microsoft, his talent for spinning facts and spreading FUD would have made him a natural for American politics. Microsoft, with Ballmer at the lead, is busy again trying to convince the tech world that Linux and open source leave users more vulnerable to security issues than Microsoft's own products.
Library Card
The OSDL wants to work with Sourceforge on a "library" of Linux code routines.As ZDNet UK notes today, the aim is to give commercial developers something they can go through to see whether what they want to patent has already been invented.