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- News to know: IDF; Office 14; Google; Flash flaw; MobileMe; Zoho
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason O'Grady: MobileMe subscribers get a 60 day extension Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Is the "killer app" argument dead? More info on USB 3.0 emerges ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Torvalds: No picnic to become major Linux coder
- Torvalds: No picnic to become major Linux coderAll makes senseIf I was running a large open source project with thousands if not millions of people all over the world depending on me to get it right, I think I'd do things in much the same way.Certainly it makes sense to...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Torvalds: No picnic to become major Linux coder
- The Linux project lead has said new contributors should 'start small' to avoid becoming frustrated with the Linux kernel development process Linux project lead Linus Torvalds has said it is not easy to become a major contributor to the Linux kernel. In an email interview with ZDNet.co.uk...
- News items 2008-08-18
- Curing what ails Microsoft
- Curing what ails MicrosoftYou are the firstNTDid anyone ever tell you that you look a littlelike Tucker Carlson on MSNBC fromerly CNN?Pagan jimWhat you describe......is inherent in any large organization look at the US Government, but your suggestions are good ones, nonetheless. Any plans to fight unnecessary code duplication...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- Pravda, Sutor, and IBM Linux
- Pravda, Sutor, and IBM LinuxWrong!At it again are we?Paul get your facts straight before you try to be the same failure as that fraud.Yes the U2 crashed because it used a jet engine who was held together by good intentions and bailing wire.But regarding Linux, you are still wrong. Linux...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-09
- Video: Picking a Linux distribution
- Video: Picking a Linux distributionSuSE 11 not ready for prime time.Check the forums. Lots of problems with multi-boot, hard drives, especially raid, others - check their forum.I tried it on brand new machine. Had trouble with Seagate Cheetah drive and adaptec raid. Tried 10.3, went smooth as silk.If you have...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- 2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel."
- 2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel."My ViewFirst, no one hates Microsoft more than I do - for both practical and ethical reasons. After dealing with Microshaft's endless parade of crap for nearly two decades, I finally abandoned my PC for a Mac. It was one of the best moves of...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- A look at the recent Firefox 3 vulnerability
- A look at the recent Firefox 3 vulnerabilityLOLAlways makes me laugh when a Firefox article is written critical of it, no one adds an opinion.If this were about IE, the thread would be huge.quit making such a big deal, read moreWhy do people write about security vulnerabilities that have happened...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- Why does open source need a villain?
- Why does open source need a villain?It doesn't need a villianIt just needs competition. And Apple provides some, but they also leave the door open for F/OSS given their restrictive policies.villain or hero?Linus Torvalds"By giving away his software, the Finnish programmer earned a place in history""Some of Torvalds' supporters portray...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- Tough love: Linux needs more haters
- [The opinions expressed here are mine alone, and not those of Google, Inc. my current employer.] I've been spending far too much time reading a blog recently. Normally I dislike reading blogs, or as my friend from the IT News site "the Register" Andrew Orlowski calls them;...
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- News to know: Google, Microsoft; AMD; Cybercrime arrest
- Notable headlines: Earnings wrap: Larry Dignan: Can Dirk Meyer save AMD? News.com: AMD's Ruiz steps off the roller coaster Google earnings fall short; says it can thrive in down economy. Techmeme Sam Diaz: IBM: Big Blue beats expectations Microsoft: $60 billion...
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Torvalds attacks IT industry 'security circus'
- Torvalds attacks IT industry 'security circus'Torvalds attacks IT industry 'security circus'So Linus admits that there are security flaws in linux as well as other bugs? I've been saying that for a long time but the fanboys wouldn't believe me. Now that their leader finally admits to it perhaps...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- Linux 2.6.26 kernel update released
- Linus Torvalds quietly released another update to the Linux kernel over the weekend that offers better support for kernel-based virtual machines, a kernel debugger, improved webcam support and new support for the One Laptop Per Child architecture. Version 2.6.26 was released on Sunday, July 13. What's most...
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Bill Gates' legacy: A modern day Henry Ford
- Bill Gates' legacy: A modern day Henry FordDeservedly so. He is a modern day Henry FordLike HF, Bill Gates has truly made a historic impact on the high tech industry and his philanthropy work is already making an incredible difference.Good for him.Having said that, Microsoft has missed the internet boat...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- Get Up To Speed: Linux
- If you are asked what an operating system is, you may not know the answer. If you are asked what Windows is in reference to your computer you probably have an idea. But what about Linux? Linux, like Microsoft Windows, is an operating system. Unlike MS...
- Download resources 2008-06-12
- 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
- I swear, this is not another Unixfication post
- Photo: Jeff Bonwick and Linus Torvalds I was resolved not to write another Unixfication story until I had more concrete news of Sun and Linus actually working together, and filed it away under "Maybe". Like many of the speculative peices I write, it...
- Blog posts 2008-05-18
- Intel Tools for Thread-Oriented Development on Linux
- During the early years of Linux, when it was gaining traction through the work of evangelists, the operating system did not offer significant functionality in support of threading. In part, this was due to a unique threading model initially supported by Linus Torvalds, the driving force behind the Linux project....
- White papers 2008-05-02
- Reiser FS: The open source file system fallout
- Yesterday, the Open Source community took an emotional hit when veteran Linux programmer Hans Reiser was convicted of first degree murder in the suspicious disappearing of his wife, Nina. While I won't go into the details of the case, as this has been covered extensively in the press, I would...
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Is Stiglitz the official economist of open source?
- If anyone may be deemed the official economist of open source, it's probably Joseph Stiglitz right. Stiglitz, 65, was a co-winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics for work he did on the impact of asymmetric information. His paper said markets can be...
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
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