Prakash Advani's Blog

Nice article:

Open source is becoming so pervasive that big proprietary vendors are not just embracing open source but now must be careful not to be seen as impeding the progress, fearing both developer and customer backlashes.

With those points in mind, here are ten leading commercial open-source innovators and the projects they’re working on:

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As per this article Linux on the Desktop is currently higher than Windows Vista! Ofcourse this is a small sample of web users.. but nevertherless, its a big achivement.

Now all people building web sites would please ensure that your web site isn’t just designed for IE? Many people use Firefox and specially most Linux desktops. And ofcourse Firefox is been increasingly used by people on Windows too.

If you are looking for installing packages on OpenSUSE 10.2, you would find this article useful. I particularly liked the option of using Smart. Smart is a popular package manager already available in OpenSUSE 10.2, just add the steps mentioned and you are ready to roll.

Read here about steps for Smart.

Once you do that just fireup smart available in the menu.

or type: smart –gui

This will give you a nice easy to use front end where you can browse/search for the applications and install easily.

As per this article:

SCO has identified only 326 lines of offending code, compared with more than 700,000 lines of IBM’s GPL’d code in the Linux kernel. Of the 326 lines, most are comments, header files and other statements that aren’t eligible for copyright protection

From this article:

“There’s no reason whatsoever why the Intel architecture remains so complex,” said Simon Crosby, chief technology officer at virtualization software start-up XenSource. “There’s no reason why they couldn’t ditch 60 percent of the transistors on the chip, most of which are for legacy modes.”

If a chipmaker declared its chip could run only software written past some date such as 1990 or 1995, you would see a dramatic decrease in cost and power consumption, Crosby said. The problem is that deep inside Windows is code taken from the MS-DOS operating system of the early 1980s, and that code looks for certain instructions when it boots.

To maintain backward compatiblity with Windows, chip manufacturers still have ancient x86 code which adds processing overheads to the current generation of processors. Time to have an open source processor, fully optimised for Linux with no legacy code.