Topic: Linux

Posted by : Anonymous on Monday, March 08, 2004 - 11:37 PM

During the last winter solstice, I broached the subject of Linux for hams in "Surfin'," the weekly column I write for the ARRLWeb (www.arrl.org). In the days that followed the posting of my Linux Surfin' columns, I received more mail than about anything I have written in over a quarter of a century. Most of the writers were happy to see something in the Amateur Radio press about Linux and encouraged me to write more about the subject. Since this column provides more space than Surfin,' I will write more about Linux here.

Posted by : Anonymous on Wednesday, March 03, 2004 - 12:50 PM

The SCO Group has revealed the name of a Fortune 1000 company which has signed up to the SCO Unix licensing programme: US internet hosting provider Everyones Internet (EV1.Net).The SCO licence is with EV1.Net's hosting division, EV1Servers.Net, which runs a choice of Windows, BSD Unix and Linux servers for its users, providing them with an indemnity.

Posted by : Anonymous on Tuesday, February 17, 2004 - 12:27 PM

SEATTLE -- A British tech consultant has launched an unusual project that puts tech buyers in position to do something largely unheard of in tech circles: wrangle price cuts from Microsoft.The Incubator Club guarantees anonymity for tech buyers wanting to evaluate Linux. Founder Eddie Bleasdale of consultancy Netproject got the idea after helping the London borough of Newham test Linux desktop programs last fall.

Posted by : bpburnwal on Sunday, February 15, 2004 - 02:02 AM

Novell has unveiled two training programmes it claims will boost confidence in Linux by producing engineers certified to deploy the open standard's operating systems.

Posted by : bpburnwal on Sunday, February 15, 2004 - 01:59 AM

Lindows has begun offering Lindows Live, a free online version of the Linux operating system. But the company isn't the only one offering the software: Its users are becoming part of the distribution process.

Posted by : bpburnwal on Sunday, February 15, 2004 - 01:58 AM

Brazil, Feb 11, 2004 (BNamericas.com via COMTEX) -- The Brazilian unit of US software manufacturer MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR) expects to unveil its business intelligence (BI) software on Linux and Unix platforms by end-June, local news agency Computerworld reported.

Posted by : bpburnwal on Sunday, February 15, 2004 - 01:56 AM

Linux developer Lindows.com has won what it claims is a key ruling in its legal dispute with Microsoft over the Windows trademark.

Posted by : bpburnwal on Sunday, February 15, 2004 - 01:53 AM

NEW DELHI, Feb 12, 2004 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX) -- Oracle India has said seven of its new customers have chosen Linux to run Oracle Technology and application software.

Posted by : Anonymous on Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 11:18 PM

Red Hat is handing over all its copyrights in the embedded real-time eCos open source operating system to the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
The Linux firm announced that it was making the donation to enable the FSF to act as the sole copyright steward of the project.

Posted by : Anonymous on Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 11:09 PM

Novell has launched an indemnification scheme designed to protect its SuSE Linux Enterprise Server customers against what it described as "certain intellectual property challenges to Linux".

Posted by : bpburnwal on Friday, January 09, 2004 - 11:40 AM

ARMONK, New York (AP) - In an internal memo that reached the Internet, an IBM Corp. executive challenges company employees to abandon Microsoft operating systems by the end of next year.

Posted by : bpburnwal on Friday, January 09, 2004 - 11:38 AM

BEIJING (AP) - A pair of Chinese and Japanese software companies announced a joint venture Wednesday aimed at developing a Linux-based platform for Asian markets that they hope will challenge Microsoft's dominance.

Posted by : bpburnwal on Friday, January 09, 2004 - 11:38 AM

SCO Group planned to announce on Monday that it was stepping up its campaign to collect license fees from corporations using the Linux operating system, with warning letters to the companies. Supporters of Linux, including IBM and other companies, say that SCO's interpretation of its claim over Linux is exaggerated.

Posted by : trraju on Sunday, December 28, 2003 - 10:32 PM

SCO Group planned to announce on Monday that it was stepping up its campaign to collect license fees from corporations using the Linux operating system, with warning letters to the companies. Supporters of Linux, including IBM and other companies, say that SCO's interpretation of its claim over Linux is exaggerated.

Posted by : Anonymous on Thursday, December 25, 2003 - 08:06 AM

The SCO Group has chosen the season of goodwill to send letters to selected Fortune 1000 Linux users, identifying further alleged violations of its Linux copyrights. In an escalation of the case against Linux which began last March, the company said: "SCO has commenced providing notification to selected Fortune 1000 Linux end users outlining additional violations of SCO's copyrights contained in Linux."

Posted by : Anonymous on Thursday, December 25, 2003 - 08:04 AM

HELSINKI, Finland, Dec 18, 2003 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Linux is releasing a new version, 2.6.0, that is expected to be better suited to powerful computers with multiple processors.

Posted by : bpburnwal on Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 01:31 PM

REDMOND, Wash, Dec 12, 2003 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Scandinavian judges gave Microsoft what it couldn't get in the United States: injunctions barring Linux vendor Lindows.com from using the Lindows name.

Posted by : bpburnwal on Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 01:30 PM

The control centre is ready and a big Christmas celebration is expected when, or if, the UK's most ambitious scientific project, the Beagle 2 Mars Lander, makes landfall on Christmas Day.

Posted by : bpburnwal on Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 11:31 AM

Linux continues to prove its worth as a serious contender to Microsoft's Windows operating system (OS), according to research by analyst firm Context.

Posted by : bpburnwal on Friday, December 12, 2003 - 05:35 AM

One in four UK small and medium businesses (SMBs) now use Linux, and more than than half think it robust enough for mission-critical applications, according to a new study.