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- Hyper-V: The no-brainer virtualization stack for Windows
- Hyper-V: The no-brainer virtualization stack for WindowsWindows.So do you have to run a full version of Windows and then on top of that run Hyper V and then on top of that run your guests? Or can Hyper V be installed bare metal?RE: Hyper-V: The no-brainer virtualization stack for WindowsIt...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- Hyper-V: The no-brainer virtualization stack for Windows
- Last Thursday, Microsoft released the final version of Hyper-V, the much anticipated built-in hypervisor for Windows Server 2008. Back in February, we had a look at a late beta release, and we were quite impressed with the performance of the system and how easy it was to manage virtual machines....
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Will Bill Gates' departure usher in open source friendly era at Microsoft?
- Will Bill Gates' departure usher in open source friendly era at Microsoft?MS will embrace OSS only if...they perceive that it will increase their stock value. Gates' departure has nothing to do with it. As far as Linux Zealots predicting the end of proprietary software, this only indicates their lack...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- Will Bill Gates' departure usher in open source friendly era at Microsoft?
- Will Microsoft become more open to open source with the departure of Bill Gates? It's a tough call. Observers from both the open and closed source worlds say the exit of Microsoft's longtime leader won't usher in a GPL era at the company but it will likely...
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- Maybe I was wrong about Mac Servers
- After reading ZDNet storage majordomo Robin Harris' post this morning I couldn't help but ponder the implications of Macs having a native implementation of Sun's ZFS network scalable file system in the latest versions of Mac OS X Snow Leopard client and Snow Leopard Server. Finally, a compelling reason to...
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- News to know: Yang's runway; Apple patch; Google; Gates' last week
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Yang's recovery runway: Months to days and board should go too. Techmeme Google's display ad gravy train rests with YouTube Richard Koman: Ad targeting technology violate privacy, groups say Ryan Naraine: Microsoft blames 'human issues' for...
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- GPL divide still lives, one year on
- GPL divide still lives, one year onThe Freeware Ghetto"If the GPL just becomes a freeware license while “commercial” versions of the same programs are offered under commercial licenses, does the GPL risk becoming a freeware ghetto?"Amen - I was so pleased to see this question posed - as it seems...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-19
- GPL divide still lives, one year on
- If the GPL just becomes a freeware license while "commercial" versions of the same programs are offered under commercial licenses, does the GPL risk becoming a freeware ghetto? by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- Open source has yet to learn it pays to advertise
- Open source has yet to learn it pays to advertiseCompanies making money from open source.Well, there's Red Hat... and there's Red Hat and, oh yes, I remember, Red Hat.There are ways to save expenses with open source, but that's different from making money with open source. If a company...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
- Parallels releases its Hypervisor -- on the Mac
- Today, virtualization vendor Parallels released the first version of its Server hypervisor for x86 hardware. The surprising thing about it is that it chose to go to release with its Mac version first. Parallels first came to market with its desktop-based virtualization products...
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- How to recover GPcode encrypted files?
- Got backups? In response to the security community's comments on the futile attempt to directly attack the 1024 bit RSA keys using distributed computing, Kaspersky Labs are now reasonably recommending that affected end users lacking backups of their encrypted data, take advantage of data recovery tools : Currently, it's...
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- Calling out lawyers on their own FUD
- Calling out lawyers on their own FUDReally?"Walsh’s claim that before these suits open source offered only a “philosophical dispute” is false. Copyright law has always been at the heart of open source."Really?Copyright law and the GPL are based on the concept of a "derivative work." What EXACTLY is a...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-10
- Microsoft apologizes to Open Source Initiative for policy violation
- Microsoft apologizes to Open Source Initiative for policy violationwho do they think they are fooling?apologizing for nothing does not absolve M$ of the other grave crimes they commited in the last 20 years.The point of CodePlex is???I have a fellow developer thats completely oblivious to anything non-MS. We would discuss...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-06
- Do we need two open source office suites?
- Do we need two open source office suites?That Made Me Scratch My Head, TooMethinks Dana needs to go back and double-check his sources. And, by the way, StarOffice's roots actually go back much further than that: Star Division's StarWriter was first developed back in the mid-80's for CP/M. ...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-05
- Windows will go open source when pigs fly
- Windows will go open source when pigs flyMicrosoft can not afford to go to open source....People will see how much of other companies IP they have used.Er??? >> Er???"Pliny the Elder" had it right, your ("SpikeyMike") logic is wrong or you misread the post.expanding on the statement: If MS code...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-05
- Do the Busybox cases change anything?
- Do the Busybox cases change anything?About rightIf you're looking at free software as a starting point for closed source development, then stay away from GPLed code, but if your interest is in using the software or in selling support contracts, then there's no problem.I've long thought that controversies over license...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-04
- Do the Busybox cases change anything?
- The GPL violation cases known collectively as the BusyBox cases never went to court, but they do seem to have settled the question of whether the license is enforceable. It is. So why is Edward Walsh, an attorney at Wolf Greenfield in Boston, trying to...
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Patrick Brady dissects Android
- Patrick Brady of Google's partner group provided a detailed technical tour of the internals of the Android platform during his recent talk at Google I/O 2008 titled "Anatomy and Physiology of an Android". Topics included Linux kernel enhancements, the Bionic library (Google's slimmed down version of libc), Android functional and...
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Why Linux won the embedded market?
- Why Linux won the embedded market?Name of the game is scalability ...That's were Linux shines in this respect. From tiny embedded systems all the way up to massive teraflop supercomputers, [b]that's[/b] scalability.The world doesn't owe its living to Microsoftand in the cut throat business world why on earth would any...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-02
- Android will be 100ò0open source, says Google
- Android will be 100ò0open source, says GoogleGoogle can't run from GPLGoogle need to create it own kernel, Googlix.looking forward to itso, will we finally be able to buy a phone at any store, and then sign up with mobile carriers solely for the sim card?RE: Android will be 100% open...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-02
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