Linux Hardware Knowledge Base Launched, Oct 07, 2004

A website and Wiki has been set up to solve the sometimes frustrating hardware support problems that Linux users run into. Florian Becker, initiator of Linux-Driver.org, has high hopes for the project.

The BBC has announced an open-source video compression project which it hopes may one day give Windows Media Player a run for its money

The BBC didn't make a particularly big show of its open-source video compression project at LinuxWorld in London on Wednesday, but if the codec lives up to expectations, it could soon be challenging Windows Media Player.

IP Telephony systems based on open source technology will eclipse revenues from Linux over the next two years, a leading open source guru predicted today.

The never-ending TCO debate between the software industry’s greatest rivals in history -- Microsoft & Linux -- has got nastier. OSIA claims that Microsoft has its ‘facts’ on TCO comparison all wrong, and the IDC report was secretly funded by the Redmond giant, producing doctored results. The real evidence it claims, is the industry’s first concrete independent survey, which has delivered results strongly in favor of Linux.

The Agriculture Department's Forest Service will be one of the early adopters of Cray Inc.'s new Linux machines.

Officials at Cray Inc., a supercomputer manufacturer, introduced earlier this week the XD1 Linux-based supercomputer. Starting at less than $100,000, the XD1 is a less expensive alternative to the company's traditional supercomputers, and it is designed to outperform Linux clusters built using generic off-the-shelf parts that are increasingly popular with government high-performance computing shops.

In the last week, we've seen Schwartz slag off Red Hat, not to mention Linux in general - which Schwartz persists in spelling linux (lower case) on the grounds that there's more than one. Nit-picking on this linguistic point, it's initially attractive because, if there's only one of something it should attract a capital letter. However Schwartz ignores the obvious precedent of Unix always being capitalised, despite the existence of more than one Unix.

IBM Corp has ported its Middleware Industry Solutions for government, banking and retail to the Linux operating system, responding it said to high rates of adoption in those vertical markets.

Software patents are bad for both open- and closed-source developers, not to mention for anyone who buys software. Isn't it time we get rid of them once and for all?

Accountants are stopping small businesses from switching to Open Source solutions, according to OpenAdvantage, a business advice centre.

Speaking at Linuxworld Conference and Expo in London today, Director Scott Thompson said that the lack of a small business version of Sage for Linux is 'one of the biggest hurdles we face'.

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