Date: 06/09/05     Keywords: no keywords

So what can you do? Tailor your resume to text search engines that rely on simple word matches - mention every Unix variant you can reasonably claim at least once, but be prepared to justify your inclusions to a sceptical recruiter.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=324&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 06/08/05     Keywords: linux

The Mac OS X is based on FreeBSD. Windows offers a lot of services for Unix. In a way we're all Linux now, and all that's left to argue about are the terms of the world's surrender.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=323&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 06/08/05     Keywords: microsoft

Last week I described the concept of open source licensing as strategy, mainly from a theoretical viewpoint.Let's see how it works in the real world, "ripped from the headlines" as they say.In Europe Microsoft is trying to give open source minimal openings. They seem to have settled their anti-trust dispute with the European Commission, and [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=322&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 06/08/05     Keywords: linux

I think it's safe to predict that future historians looking at the history of Linux will spend a lot of time muttering about the events preceeding, surrounding, and flowing from, Novell's purchase of SuSe in late 2003.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=321&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 06/07/05     Keywords: no keywords

"We’re thrilled that we seem to be in stock in most places, which is something we didn’t do before."

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=320&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 06/07/05     Keywords: no keywords

"A lot of developing country governments don’t know much about the Internet. We see the government of India picking up one of our papers, then saying ‘We’ve got to preserve the end to end principle.’ which means they’re reading it."

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=319&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 06/07/05     Keywords: linux

Here's an important lesson for everyone, whether you run Linux, Solaris, Windows, OpenBSD, Mac OS X, or MS-DOS -- your customers' data isn't very secure when tapes carrying sensitive customer data go missing in transit. In this particular case, one wonders whether transporting physical media is the best way to transfer [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=318&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 06/07/05     Keywords: linux

Now that the rumors have turned out to be true, what is this going to mean for Linux -- if anything? Well, let's look at the facts that we have so far. Linux has taken off in large part because it runs on commodity hardware (Intel and Intel-compatible), [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=317&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 06/06/05     Keywords: software

Niagara rocks. You want low power use for a laptop? How about an eight way 1.4Ghz SMP core with TCP/IP and cryptography done in hardware - at 65 watts flat out. There are some serious software issues, but get past them and you've got eight to ten Xeons in the box - at 65 watts.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=316&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 06/06/05     Keywords: software, web

What is the biggest problem faced by the open source community? Is it marketing or our business model?I think it's marketing. Over the weekend I proposed a Web ad campaign called "I am open source." Picture big corporate users of GPL software, real business celebrities, and link to case studies. Show people that open source [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=315&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 06/06/05     Keywords: no keywords

That's 250 people, many of them presumably experienced kernel level Unix developers, working on the kernel for over three years now. Sounds impressive, but what have they been doing? Has anyone seen results remotely commensurate with that level of effort?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=314&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 06/05/05     Keywords: no keywords

There are actually two loony tune headlines I can think of that might make some sense: "Intel to fab PowerPC for Apple" and "Apple to sue IBM for commercial malfeasance." Both depend, of course, on things I don't know - specifically on what's in the details of Apple's contracts with IBM and Freescale.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=312&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 06/03/05     Keywords: linux

Personally I expect Linux on Cell to blow Wintel into history -but history is behavioral, and if we don't change, it'll just repeat on us, right?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=311&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 06/03/05     Keywords: no keywords

Last month I wrote about the U.S. Court of Appeals putting the kibosh on the FCC's broadcast flag rule. Naturally, I assumed that the entertainment industry would turn to Congress if they failed to get their way in court. And they did, but it looks like 2005 isn't their year, however. (At least [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=310&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 06/02/05     Keywords: no keywords

By using the GPL, by giving away code and hoping amateurs will enhance it, corporations can wash their hands of failed products and still provide competition to hated rivals. In other words, licensing is strategy.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=309&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 06/02/05     Keywords: database, linux

Enterprise analysts are cheering Novell's delivery of a "mixed source" solution. It's an application stack combining the JBoss open source application server, the proprietary Oracle database with its Real Application Clusters, and Novell's own SUSE Linux, all running on H-P hardware. Analysts assume enterprises demand support and a guarantee that the parts they buy will [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=308&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 06/02/05     Keywords: database

There's nothing wrong with loading three different database engines on the same machine if you've got the I/O and processor bandwidth to handle them -you can trust Unix to do its job pretty much no matter what you throw at it.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=307&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 06/01/05     Keywords: software

The end result is to largely shut open source software out of the media playing arena, and thus, if you believe in the convergence of media playing devices and computering devices, out of the general purpose home computer arena.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=306&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 06/01/05     Keywords: technology, microsoft

Only a qualified success? there's a phrase you'd expect from Barbara Boxer's therapist, not a journalist talking about Microsoft's failure to take an Intel technology much beyond PowerPoint.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=305&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 05/31/05     Keywords: no keywords

Before dismissing  Jesús Villasante's attack on corporate open source as mere carping from "Old Europe," let's ask if there is some justice in it. (The picture is from the conference program.) Villasante isn't demanding anything. He's not calling for European leadership of open source. He's not even threatening to do anything about his complaints.What he's [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=304&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog