Monthly Archive:: March 2005

This whitepaper by Codeweavers COO Jon Parshall and CEO Jeremy White takes a detailed look at the potential value of WINE as an ingredient in a strategy for enterprise migration from Windows to Linux desktops. The paper itemizes the requirements for enterprise desktop migration, examines a range of available tactics, and then suggests strategies for making the journey in ways that are "pragmatic, economical, and customer focused," the authors say.

John Carmack decides to code a Java game for his new cell phone just for fun and writes about the problems he had with J2ME while doing so.

There are a lot of stories going round about yellowTAB and the Zeta kernel. To put an end to this, ZetaNews decided to have a closer look at the latest kernel included in the "Venture" beta of the Zeta OS. We have also tested the kernel on a wide range of new processors.

BitRock InstallBuilder is a multiplatform installation tool that supports Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, Solaris and, soon, OSX. It has free, fully functional licenses for open source projects. This new release adds Linux PPC and FreeBSD 5.x support.

Today we are very happy to feature a huge interview with most of the developer team of Arch Linux, including its founder, Judd Vinet. If you are curious about this young and promising Linux distribution, dig in for more!

New start-up efforts and maturing commercial and open-source projects promise to make virtualization more powerful and ubiquitous for Linux and the x86 platform. Also, 64 reasons to opt for Linux.

The landscape looked lifeless. But satellite images from orbit identified geological formations containing minerals that microbes sometimes like to nestle in, and scientists dispatched a small rover to look at the rocks up close.

Alan Cox chats about life as a Linux kernel hacker, describing the Linux development process as a controlled explosion. He also notes that Linux doesn't need Linus and even names his most likely successor. He also talks about Trusted Computing's affect on Linux and his research in people's desires for desktop Linux.

In June 2001, Progeny Linux Systems was in crisis. Looking around, co-founder and CEO Ian Murdock realized that the company needed fundamental changes to survive. Four years later, Progeny is back up to its former staffing levels and showing modest profits. It is also one of the few Free/Open Source Software (FOSS)-based companies from that era to survive.

Solaris Express 3/2005 (a.k.a. Nevada Build 9) should arrive later today providing improved hardware support, performance, the Network Layer 7 Cache, and new developer APIs. You can obtain a free download. An overview of new features is available.

SearchEnterpriseLinux.com recently caught up with Sleepycat Software Inc. CEO Mike Olson to find out what's new with open source Berkeley DB. In these excerpts from that conversation, Olsen talks about where Berkeley DB is positioned in the marketplace, and where it's going in terms of features and functionality. Also, Olson discusses why he thinks ever-evolving attitudes toward open source will make hybrid offerings lucrative. He then runs through an interesting "thought experimentation" to show what would happen if Microsoft ever decided to embrace open source.

I decided to write this review to provide a quick inside to the new Linspire 5.0 released on March 15th, 2005. The review will determine the use of Linspire 5.0 in a SOHO (Small Office Home Office) Environment. The download was free for me since I'm a current CNR subscriber. UPDATE: Another Linspire review, and the Linspire 5.0 Live CD is now available for free download.

Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative seems like an odd mix for the company when it works openly and a clever shot across the bow of open source when it works selfishly. How can the rest of us reconcile both positions? Microsoft ex-employee Stephen Walli shares his perspectives on the Shared Source Initiative from within and without the company.

Tom Adelstein, distinguished analyst at Hiser + Adelstein in New York, says in his review today on Linux Journal that Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) destkop (not Fedora)--this is the one selling in units of 10 for $2,500--"meets and exceeds" the criteria established by the Open Source Maturity Model and most surely the standards established by the legacy desktop system many organizations are finding to be unacceptably compromised and overbought.