My recent switch to a single-boot Ubuntu setup on my Thinkpad T60 simply
floors me on a regular basis. Most recently it's had to do with the
experience of maintaining the software. Fresh from a very long Windows 2000
experience and a four-month Windows XP experience along with a long-time
Linux sys admin role puts me in a great position to assess Ubuntu. Three
prior attempts over the years at using Linux as my daily desktop OS had me
primed for failure. Well, Ubuntu takes Linux where I've long hoped it would
go - easy to use, reliable, dependable, great applications too but more on
that later. It has some elegance to it - bet you never heard that about a
Linux desktop before.
There are many night-and-day differences between Windows and Ubuntu and, for
a guy that does 80% standard office tasks and the rest of the time I'm doing
Linux admin tasks, it was nearly all i... (more)
Everybody in the open source world and in IT in general knows that the forces
of open source software development will quickly replace any code SCO shows
as being clearly infringing of any SCO rights. SCO knows this. You know this.
My grandma might even know this.
Yet, no rational individual or company is going to pay SCO's licensing fee
for use of Linux until SCO can show that there is infringing code. This is
true no matter whether that SCO license costs $699, $1399, $32, or 10 cents.
To prove that the code infringes, SCO needs to win in a court and for SCO to
win, SCO needs to... (more)
There was a report last week at the “The Inquirer” that gave us
a little insight into the prospects for the future arc of Intel’s
Itanium server chip line. For the past two years with the advent of the
Opteron line of server chips that offer 32 and 64-bit native capability for
the X86 code base, there have been loud rumbles about where Itanium now fits
in the CPU landscape. And even Intel has acknowledged that Opteron has
created problems for Itanium in the market place as reported in September
2004 saying "I would be remiss to say the impact was zero, but the ... (more)
Drupal Developer's Journal on Ulitzer
Plone and Drupal are two leading open source Content Management Systems
(CMS). Both were recognized in the 2009 Open Source CMS awards, run by Packt
Publishing. Both also have large installed bases and large developer
communities. This is made evident by some quick searching on Google:
A search for LinkedIn profiles that mention Plone (search for 'plone
site:linkedin.com/pub/') turns up 1350 pages-a large increase from 500
results in 2006.
The same kind of search for Drupal developers turns up 9700 pages (search for
'drupal site:linkedin.c... (more)
From the start, questions have surrounded the process and people SCO used to
determine the alleged code violations in Linux. There is the phantom MIT
mathematics department team which MIT itself can’t identify and which SCO
has since said were people with former MIT mathematics department
relationships, not MIT employees. These former MIT people have still not
stepped forward and given anyone an indication that they are up to the task,
what methods they used, or that they even exist.
The MIT problem casts doubt on the process SCO uses to identify allegedly
infringing code ... (more)
Paul Nowak first used Linux in 1995 while migrating from Sun to Linux at the University of Michigan. He used Linux in subsequent IT projects including web, telecom, telemetry and embedded projects and is currently CIO of a small professional association based in Washington D.C.
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