Archive for April, 2007
Monday, April 30th, 2007
Ten Leading Open Source Innovators
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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Saturday, April 28th, 2007
Desktop Linux ahead of Vista
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 […]
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Thursday, April 26th, 2007
Installing additional packages on OpenSUSE 10.2
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 […]
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Monday, April 23rd, 2007
Did Linux really had code from SCO Unix?
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
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Sunday, April 22nd, 2007
Interesting article on why Windows is still so inefficient
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 […]
