A Stroll Down Memory Lane with OldSCO, Nov 27, 2003

This is a good day for a stroll down memory lane.

SCO is accusing IBM of helping Linux to scale by donating "their" code to Linux inappropriately. But they forget that OldSCO wanted Linux to scale in precisely the areas IBM is alleged to have helped it to do so. Not only that, they told the world they were helping it to do so.

eWEEK.com's Linux & Open-Source Center Editor Steven Vaughn-Nichols really likes what he sees for the server, corporate and retail desktop horizon for 2004. He boldly predicts that major vendors will start producing Linux PCs for the low-end retail market, and that your grandmother will love it.

A recent survey in Australia and New Zealand has found that the use of Linux on servers has grown dramatically, but its share of the desktop market is still very small

The world of computers is about choice, and so are the programmes that run on your computer -- you choose which one. Some come with the computer leaving you no choice, and others you get free from the Internet and other sources. It is your choice.

Now, in comes Linux.

No other computer-operating system expresses the freedom to choose like Linux. From Mandrake, SuSe to Red Hat, it is about choice, and now that choice just widened.

Africa has given birth to her own Linux distribution, Impi Linux, free for all at the Linux website.

After a multiyear development effort, the 2.6 version of the Linux kernel is set for release in the second half of December. This is the first major Linux kernel release since 2001, when version 2.4 was launched.

Version of 2.6 will usher in a number of important improvements over its predecessor, according to Andrew Morton, who -- along with Linus Torvalds -- maintains the Linux kernel.

Chief among these is the ability to run servers with a greater number of processors. "For high-end and server applications, probably the most significant [upgrade] is in scalability," Morton told NewsFactor. "2.6 scales to more CPUs, more memory, more disks and larger disks."

Despite online reports, SCO on Wednesday denied that Google will be its next target for legal action due to its Linux use.

The SCO Group Inc. earlier this month announced that it would file at least one lawsuit against a large corporate Linux user within the next 90 days as part of its effort to expand its legal war with Linux and its business supporters. This week, according to a LinuxWorld report, Lindon, Utah-based SCO picked its target: Google, the world's largest search engine company.

The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a global consortium of leading technology companies dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux, today announced a new initiative to raise awareness about how the Linux kernel is developed.

With the highly-anticipated release of the final Linux 2.6 production kernel due shortly, OSDL is taking a series of steps to increase customer confidence in using Linux. The new Linux kernel will be used by tens of millions of people in new ways, not only on servers and in telecommunications networks, but also on desktops and in consumer electronic devices. Among the Lab's first steps in this new initiative is the creation of a simplified graphical model that illustrates how software code is contributed to the Linux kernel.

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