Linux News: Distros

Monday - May 5, 2008

After the exuberance that followed Hardy Heron's landing not long ago, the mood on the Linux blogs shifted considerably last week in the wake of the conviction of ReiserFS file-system designer Hans Reiser of first-degree murder. Before the highly publicized trial, Reiser and his team were working on Reiser4, but "the project is more than likely to die an unfortunate death by virtue of its lead programmer [possibly] having to serve a minimum 25-year life sentence in prison," noted ZDNet blogger Jason Perlow. "The question is, what do we replace ReiserFS with?" [More...]

Red Hat CEO: Opportunity Lies in Emerging Markets

Monday - April 28, 2008

Red Hat will look primarily to emerging markets, not the United States, to expand service sales in the coming years, chief executive Jim Whitehurst said. Red Hat sells services that support open source software, or software whose underlying code is shared freely by professionals and amateurs worldwide. [More...]

Warning: Hardy Heron May Cause Linux Addiction

Monday - April 28, 2008

With the arrival of Ubuntu's Hardy Heron last week, it is perhaps an understatement to say that conversation on the Linux blogs was plentiful. The news was picked up on virtually every forum out there, including Slashdot (where more than 600 comments had already been made just a day after the release), the Linux Loop, All About Linux and Foogazi, to name just a few. [More...]

Finger-Pointing in the Senate, XP's Stay of Execution, Tech Profit Bonanza

Friday - April 25, 2008

It seems there's no love lost between FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and Comcast. In testimony before a Senate committee about the practice of blocking peer-to-peer traffic on the Internet, Martin said Comcast lied when it described its practices to the FCC. Comcast maintained that it was merely engaging in justifiable management of network traffic in order to preserve the Internet experience for all customers. [More...]

Ubuntu's Hardy Heron Makes Splashy Landing

Thursday - April 24, 2008

Months of eager anticipation came to an end Thursday with the long-awaited release of Ubuntu Hardy Heron. Both desktop and server editions of Ubuntu 8.04 were released as free downloads, and both are Long Term Support releases, meaning that they come with commercial support for five years on the server and three years on the desktop. [More...]

Rough Going on the Way to a $100 Laptop

Thursday - April 24, 2008

The former president of the One Laptop Per Child project stepped down from his position earlier this week as the non-profit continues restructuring and faces competition from the private sector. Walter Bender directed the MIT Media Lab for six years before joining Nicholas Negroponte's OLPC project in 2006. [More...]

Microsoft, Novell Tag-Team Against Chinese Distros

Monday - April 21, 2008

As if stepping on the Linux community's toes when they first teamed up wasn't enough, Microsoft and Novell have announced a joint push into the China market to attack the Linux installed base there. They have launched what they call "an incremental investment in their relationship" that will focus on "converting unsupported Linux users to supported Suse Linux Enterprise." [More...]

Linux Becomes a Serious Option for Business

Monday - April 21, 2008

We've been hearing about an open source revolution for years now. Although "revolution" might be an overstatement, the Linux operating system is emerging as a formidable player. Until recently, Linux was used mainly by IT pros and PC hobbyists and enthusiasts, cementing its geek reputation. But with consumer perceptions of existing operating systems as bloated and costly, this just might be Linux's time to shine. [More...]

Will Hardy Heron Shine Where Red Hat Fears to Tread?

Monday - April 21, 2008

You know it's a good week on the Linux blogs when there are topics that draw more than a thousand comments on Slashdot. Indeed, such was the case last week. To start with the most obvious, Red Hat's announcement that it would not develop a desktop version of Linux for the consumer market in the near future made quite a stir on the Linux blogs. [More...]

Linux on the Desktop: Is the Market Too Tough?

Friday - April 18, 2008

In what surely came as a blow to many Linux aficionados, Red Hat announced Wednesday that it will not develop a desktop implementation of the operating system for the consumer market anytime soon. "We have no plans to create a traditional desktop product for the consumer market in the foreseeable future," the company wrote in a post on its blog, citing market pressures as its reason. [More...]

Pondering Windows' Bloated Demise

Monday - April 14, 2008

Well, it was a relatively quiet week on the Linux blogs, and we can only speculate that everyone out there was feverishly working on their taxes. Yes indeed. Taxes, as we know all too well, are one of the few certainties in this world -- along with death, as our good friend Mr. Franklin so aptly noted. [More...]

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